Phil Leigh Wrote:
Well Fredrick...you've managed to open more cans of worms than a major
explosion in a worm-canning factory...in one post!.
1) why do you own the ridiculously expensive Audio Note? - did you
audition it first?
2)Then either most people you know have substandard hearing (unlikely)
or your system is not as resolving as you believe it to be. I think the
SB3 sounds BETTER than many top-end CDP's via its digital i/f.
3) My wiring is very good so obviously my imagination must also be
good. Let's try the converse argument - if you can't hear any
improvement, your system (or ear/brain interface) must be defective...
4) Amongst many other things (too boring to discuss again) DB testing
doesn't discriminate between better and different. Anyway, beyond
entry-level all CDP's, DACs, amps are rather good these days...the two
biggest audible impacts will be in changing speakers or applying room
correction. Without RC you're not hearing anything like what the artist
intended anyway, so no amount of tweaking cables or even major
components will help.
5)Why would a bunch of speaker designers care about the SB? - surely to
them its just another source. IF, as you assert, it's no different to a
CDP (and I notice that you carefully avoid mentioning any specific
examples) I can't imagine why they would be even remotely interested?
I didn't mean to rant but posts along the lines of I'm right and the
rest of you are deaf aren't very helpful. It's hardly a scientific
argument...
I should point out that my testing (blind) of the stock SB3 compared to
a CD transport thru a DAC, was testing the digital out only. I didn't
buy the SB3 for its DAC. The ps upgrade may well make sense for the
DAC but agian, it didn't test the DAC output.
That said I pretty much agree with you on most points. My equipment
and my hearing are variables to be considered. It might be wise
however to test the results yourself before assumming my hearing or
equipment accounts for the inability to hear the difference between the
stock SB3 and a high quality CD transport through several high end
DAC's.
My point was not to challange anyone but to affirm the claim that
anyone with a good DAC can now load all their music on their computer
and listen to it without any compromise in sound, with a stock SB3. No
need to go out and spend more money on upgrades. Unless of course one
just wants to spend money for something bigger.
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