Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] If you can hear it, can you measure it?

2011-02-16 Thread Rick58
as the listeners' perceptions. Or maybe in that case, both wires actually did sound the same! -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C, Oppo 980H, SB Touch; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145 + Denon DL160; Pre-Heater: McIntosh C220; Heaters: Bottlehead Paramount 300B; Wavemakers: Triangle Titus, NHT SubOne

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] If you can hear it, can you measure it?

2011-02-15 Thread Rick58
don't know. Maybe one day we will discover one ... Yes, an instrument can CERTAINLY pull a digital radio signal out of something that we don't perceive as such! My hearing is analog, don't know about yours ... -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C, Oppo 980H, SB Touch; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145 + Denon

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] If you can hear it, can you measure it?

2011-02-15 Thread Rick58
supposedly unable to tell when a wire hangar was used as speaker cable, and this is brought up as 'proof' that all cables sound alike ... those kinds of arguments to me show the fallacy of the 'DBT' movement. -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C, Oppo 980H, SB Touch; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145 + Denon DL160

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] If you can hear it, can you measure it?

2011-02-14 Thread Rick58
willing to pay) that knowledge would be of great value when making purchasing decisions. -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145; Pre-Heater: McIntosh C220; Heater: Bottlehead Paramount 300B; Wavemakers: Triangle Titus, NHT Sub

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] SB3 vs. Airport Express into Benchmark DAC

2011-02-14 Thread Rick58
. The other comments I have no comment on ... -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145; Pre-Heater: McIntosh C220; Heater: Bottlehead Paramount 300B; Wavemakers: Triangle Titus, NHT Sub Rick58's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] If you can hear it, can you measure it?

2011-02-14 Thread Rick58
amplifier 'B' even tho power output, FR, etc., etc. are all measurably 'identical'. I do not believe we have measurements for these types of perceptions at this time. -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C, Oppo 980H, SB Touch; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145 + Denon DL160; Pre-Heater: McIntosh C220; Heaters

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] If you can hear it, can you measure it?

2011-02-14 Thread Rick58
it. -- Rick58 Bits: Azur 840C, Oppo 980H, SB Touch; Squiggles: Thorens TD-145 + Denon DL160; Pre-Heater: McIntosh C220; Heaters: Bottlehead Paramount 300B; Wavemakers: Triangle Titus, NHT SubOne Rick58's Profile: http