cliveb wrote: > I would not presume to question what you heard. You heard a difference > and that is not in dispute. > > All I am saying is that if you did your comparison sighted, then you > cannot conclude that the difference you heard was necessarily due to any > difference in the soundfields generated by the two DACs.
Sorry my friend, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. :) Your comments DID get me thinking again about the objectivist/subjectivist argument and asked a mate to come over last night to hear my new Transporter. We use each other to "sanity check" our systems sometimes and have been listening to each others systems for years. We have no problem saying that the "emperors new clothes" does in fact sound rubbish to each other, and have done in the past. A lot! We did the same test I did previously, as well as comparing two dacs to the Transporters internal dac and we both came to the same conclusions. I would posit that sometimes the difference between kit can be obvious enough to over-ride the psychological factors which you mention whilst i absolutely agree they can be a factor. Particularly so if your talking subtle differences. But only some of the time ... :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gazjam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102852 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
