I asked a good friend of mine who is a recording engineer and an expert
in digital audio since digital audio is, after all, his livelihood to
read through the first three parts of the series. Here is what he wrote
back to me:
Wow, that was some tedious reading. I had to skim through some of it
ralphpnj;683916 Wrote:
In order to do the test, I used another software, called Fission, to
convert from Flac back to wav. I then brought both the files into
Logic, put a phase inverter on one of them and hit play. Total Silence!
So yes, these guys are crackpots.
Interesting, very
garym;683922 Wrote:
But was it that wet, greasy silence that was astonishingly a level of
nothingness you've never experienced. Or just plain old non audiophile
silence. ;-)
Knowing my friend I would say that it was just plain old non audiophile
silence. Anyway what my friend know about
ralphpnj;683941 Wrote:
Knowing my friend I would say that it was just plain old non audiophile
silence. Anyway what my friend know about silence, after all he's just
a lowly full time recording, mixing and mastering engineer and not a
part time golden eared high end audio reviewer (a wrote
Well they have to try and figure out some way of selling pointless and
over-expensive gear to audiophiles for digital stuff don't they ;)
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probedb;683654 Wrote:
Well they have to try and figure out some way of selling pointless and
over-expensive gear to audiophiles for digital stuff don't they ;)
Well yes, except that in this case it's nothing to do with spending
money on gear.
One of the claims made is that a CD ripped at one
cliveb;683677 Wrote:
What ARE these guys smoking?
or mainlining. ;-)
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cliveb;683677 Wrote:
Well yes, except that in this case it's nothing to do with spending
money on gear.
One of the claims made is that a CD ripped at one speed sounds
different to the same CD ripped at a different speed, when played back
on exactly the same system, even though they
I have now skimmed trough the articles *sob* in depth reading would
incvoke far to much alcohol consumption :-/ .
Complete nutters , they don't understand a thing wav-flac-wav if
everything works and you fiddle with time stamps it is foresically
impossible to tell the 2 wav files appart aargh .
ralphpnj;683689 Wrote:
A better question would be exactly what does TAS have to gain by
publishing such garbage? While one can at least the merits of various
analog based audio myths, such as expensive cables, there is absolutely
no basis for the drivel this series is spewing. In the
Wombat;683708 Wrote:
I did read on several forums already people finaly feel understood and
post like I knew it all the time!
So TAS only tests out the new breed of customers that buy into such
things. These customers now may buy such publications to know how their
software sounds. They
The things TAS describe in different playback depends on the software in
most cases as i understand it. So in the future they test software as it
was audio gear and deliver listening results about the software versions
= New market
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Wombat;683727 Wrote:
The things TAS describe in different playback depends on the software in
most cases as i understand it. So in the future they test software as it
was audio gear and deliver listening results about the software versions
= New market
Ah, very clever! I wasn't thinking
ralphpnj;683732 Wrote:
Ah, very clever! I wasn't thinking along those lines but it does make
sense. I suppose that there will be a follow up series which does
something similar to this series but using Mac/Apple computers and
software.
In addition I'm sure that the final part, which is
totoro;683789 Wrote:
Come on, everyone knows that what is really important is an audiophile
computer power supply, and even more importantly, audiophile ram. You
don't want your ones getting tarnished on the way to the hard drive.
I have some of that ram for sale. Only $800 per 4g stick
Wombat;683790 Wrote:
Don´t make a joke about this. Exactly this is were we go to. On diyaudio
already is spoken in depth about audiophile silver SATA cable and like
always you find some that believe that and have no doubt in the jitter
of SATA cables. You can produce every part of a PC and
TAS has now published three parts of the four part series and things
have gone from the ridiculous to the sublime. There are way too many
things to enumerate here but if you want to treat yourself to a good
laugh and to see just how much harm some clown with spreadsheet program
can do by all
is them or what hifi that seriusly cliams that a copy of a file sounds
different :) and yes ofcourse faster harddrives sounds better
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Hmm I migth pick it up on my next xmas vacation :) a long fligth, I
think TAS and those small botles can keep me amused.
You don't have to try every crazy audiophile tweak yourself , it makes
no sense they can usually be dissmissed as implausible on general
scientific grounds.
the method of
No no you're all wrong. Don't start with the router. You have to start
with a computer with a special audio hard drive and special audio
motherboard. And I even think the type of keyboard and mouse you use
influences the quality of the audio rip/playback. :)
It's sad though that a lot of peaople
to get TAS today I have to vist a specialist store for international
magazines they migth have it .
Any sage wisdom on ethernet cables ;) My Meridian speakers use cat5
cables for the special MHR link for the audio and controll signals
from the processor in one cable to my digital speakers .
i
Just when you thought that the high end audio press could not get any
more ridiculous TAS (The Absolute Sound) has taken that leap from the
ridiculous to the sublime.
Starting with issue #218 (December 2011) TAS began a four part series
entitled Computer Music Audio Quality co-authored by
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