Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread garym
get.amped wrote: > "Everything Matters" should have a (TM) after it. Soft of like "Best > Buy"(TM) to indicate a slogan that is patently not true but may be > useful in marketing. I love the idea. And I can picture the tv commercial. Open to scene of 1950s housewife washing the dishes in the kit

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread get.amped
"Everything Matters" should have a (TM) after it. Soft of like "Best Buy"(TM) to indicate a slogan that is patently not true but may be useful in marketing. Because not everything actually matters. Not the type of CPU or RAM or hard disc in the computer serving digital music files, nor the ethern

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread Julf
netchord wrote: > frankly, it seems your biases are much more thoroughly ingrained Indeed. I am a very strong believer in provable facts, but more than happy to be proven wrong - with facts and evidence. Please do! "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-gro

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread Julf
netchord wrote: > "everything matters." But not equally. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 --

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread ralphpnj
netchord wrote: > it may not be well calibrated, but it is well-educated. > > frankly, it seems your biases are much more thoroughly ingrained, ie, > the bias that no such change could possibly affect the sound. > > in the words of bob stuart: "everything matters." To wit: After Brazil's horr

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread netchord
Julf wrote: > I guess primarily the expectation that your sensory system is a > well-calibrated, precise and consistent measurement system. it may not be well calibrated, but it is well-educated. frankly, it seems your biases are much more thoroughly ingrained, ie, the bias that no such change

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread lrossouw
Mnyb wrote: > Btw how does the itunes intregration handle sondcheck tags apples > varinat of replaygain tags ? > I wasn't certain but also thought it may be a vector and suggested it. I know that the server will use soundcheck data from the file if no replaygain tags are found. I'm not sure t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread Mnyb
Btw how does the itunes intregration handle sondcheck tags apples varinat of replaygain tags ? Did you also changed some other settings ? The genius idea behind squeezeboxes is that they are truly server agnostic if everything is properly configured as long as the server can fill the player buff

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread lrossouw
Another way to think about it is that you not only listen with your ears, but that your head processes it. You cannot know what you are really hearing unless you remove potential biases in your head. One way to do this is to do double blind testing. This means someone plays you music from the t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Better SQ w/o iTunes integration

2014-07-09 Thread Julf
netchord wrote: > what was the expectation, or perception bias in this instance? It sounds very much like a lot of other similar cases I have experienced. Someone makes a small change that really shouldn't affect the sound at all (such as rearranging the record collection in the shelf next to th