Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Calling Arny... What do you make of this? (Amir's ABX again...)

2015-08-07 Thread Julf
Archimago wrote: I guess that's that then. For us, yes, but probably not for the crusaders who see it as the ultimate (and only) proof that ABX doesn't work, and will keep quoting it. To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Calling Arny... What do you make of this? (Amir's ABX again...)

2015-08-07 Thread Mnyb
Julf wrote: For us, yes, but probably not for the crusaders who see it as the ultimate (and only) proof that ABX doesn't work, and will keep quoting it. Eerily similar to any pseudo-science like homoeopathy , there are actually some flawed studies in favor of it and they get quoted all the

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Calling Arny... What do you make of this? (Amir's ABX again...)

2015-08-07 Thread ralphpnj
Mnyb wrote: So why is that DSD *playback* or hirez *playback* needed ? prove that point first . Because Neil Young says so, that's why! And Neil Young is a musician and musicians know much better than any of us mere morals what sounds best. By the way a very similar argument can be used to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Calling Arny... What do you make of this? (Amir's ABX again...)

2015-08-07 Thread ralphpnj
Julf wrote: Ah, but there is the word engineer in there. We all know that engineers don't know anything about quality and emotion - they are narrow-minded small souls who just blindly follow numbers and rules. Unfortunately sometimes the text medium of internet forums leaves much to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Calling Arny... What do you make of this? (Amir's ABX again...)

2015-08-07 Thread Julf
ralphpnj wrote: By the way a very similar argument can be used to prove how much better pro-audio equipment is than any consumer grade audio equipment, including high end audio equipment, by just quoting any professional audio engineer. Ah, but there is the word engineer in there. We all

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: PonoPlayer!

2015-08-07 Thread Archimago
Boys. Just got done with the PonoPlayer write-up... Having just completed the digital filters test, I think what Ayre is doing with the filters is pretty funky :-). Anyhow, some measurements and opinions... http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/08/measurements-ponoplayer-another-mans.html