Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-Fi News test of iFi Audio USB iPurifier2

2016-07-11 Thread arnyk
Archimago wrote: > That's cool Julf. I don't care about the accolades of course. > > At least they bother to try some kind of A/B testing and willing to > publish a comment different from the "obviously better" dogma of the > evangelical testimonials. Two words: Sighted Evaluation. Often more

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-Fi News test of iFi Audio USB iPurifier2

2016-07-11 Thread adamdea
Julf wrote: > Unfortunately they also wrote "I have to say I found myself rather more > confident in identifying the cleaner, more focused sound I encountered > when leaving the iPurifier2 out and putting an AudioQuest JitterBug > between the PC and USB cable", without publishing any comparative

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-Fi News test of iFi Audio USB iPurifier2

2016-07-11 Thread Julf
Archimago wrote: > At least they bother to try some kind of A/B testing and willing to > publish a comment different from the "obviously better" dogma of the > evangelical testimonials. Unfortunately they also wrote "I have to say I found myself rather more confident in identifying the cleaner,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-Fi News test of iFi Audio USB iPurifier2

2016-07-10 Thread Archimago
That's cool Julf. I don't care about the accolades of course. At least they bother to try some kind of A/B testing and willing to publish a comment different from the "obviously better" dogma of the evangelical testimonials. Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective'

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Hi-Fi News test of iFi Audio USB iPurifier2

2016-07-09 Thread Julf
Just finished the most recent issue of Hi-Fi News & Record Review, the only Hi-Fi magazine I still read (mainly because they actually do stuff like spectrograms of hi-res recordings). They had a test of the iFi Audio USB iPurifier2, an active USB signal conditioner/buffer. They show eye-pattern