Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-09-08 Thread Zombie
Why not make a similar test with only digital streamers (ex DAC) through the same DAC? Zombie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=25009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-06-01 Thread drmatt
I think it's just another way of presenting music. If you compare to the visual arts for a long time there was a striving to "reproduce" and not interpret, but it changed. Techniques came in on how to interpret images to make them the most impactful they can be. I think the advances of production

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-19 Thread Archimago
cliveb wrote: > Had a read of them and no surprises - most people finding it difficult > to tell any significant difference. > > What I found most interesting was the demographic split. The younger > participants found the track with less dynamic range to be the most > revealing, while the olde

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-19 Thread cliveb
Archimago wrote: > Folks the Listener Results are out :-). Had a read of them and no surprises - most people finding it difficult to tell any significant difference. What I found most interesting was the demographic split. The younger participants found the track with less dynamic range to be t

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-18 Thread Archimago
wl1 wrote: > I thought I took screen shots of my responses - but I can’t find them. > D’oh. Do I assume there is no way to get you to resend my response now > the device ps are known? Is this possibles? PM here? Hi! Do you remember parts of what you entered like your equipment list? PM me an

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-05 Thread wl1
Archimago wrote: > Hey guys. Thanks for the participation! > > Here are the devices "unblinded". > > http://archimago.blogspot.com/2019/05/blind-test-results-part-1-do-digital.html > > Will post discussions and analysis of the results in future blog > installments :). I thought I took screen

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-05 Thread Paul Webster
>From the blog post > "Audiophilia appears to be a strongly male-dominated hobby - 100 men : 1 > woman... Thanks to the 1 woman who participated - you're truly special! > :-)" Any different here I wonder? Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com Author Radio France (FIP etc) plugin -

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-04 Thread edwin2006
Nice article! But, did I miss part 2? *SqueezeBoxes:* 1x Transporter (Living room) 1x SB2 (shed), 1x Radio (Kitchen), 1x Boom (Dining room), 1x piCorePlayer (jacuzzi), 1x piCorePlayer (Garden) 1x OSMC + Squeezelite (Movie room), 1x Touch (Study 2), few spare unit's *Server:* LMS on Pi3 7.9.1.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-05-04 Thread Archimago
Hey guys. Thanks for the participation! Here are the devices "unblinded". http://archimago.blogspot.com/2019/05/blind-test-results-part-1-do-digital.html Will post discussions and analysis of the results in future blog installments :). Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more o

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-03-21 Thread wl1
Archimago wrote: > Greetings Squeezebox Audiophiles ;-) > > Have fun listening! > Arch I tried this very interesting...please post the results back here. 😀 wl1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-02-26 Thread origoreo
I'm interested and also curious. Thanks for posting this I will try the blind test. origoreo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68380 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] BLIND TEST INVITE: Do digital audio players sound different?

2019-01-27 Thread Archimago
Greetings Squeezebox Audiophiles ;-). Apologies for not being around as much these days... Here's a question for the audiophiles... Do CD/digital players converting 16/44.1 sound the same/different? The real question I suspect may be "how different"! When I came across a post on the 'Steve Hoff