I once did a test with a "audio expert" and compared a CD and a digital copy. He confirmed that the copy was the original and when I showed him which was which he still refused to believe.. I know a local guy who gold plated the PCBs for his home brewed amp!
Raj At 07-05-2012, you wrote: >These people are amazing. > >They refuse to do any kind of double-blind A/B testing. > >My favorite thing is that they are trying to extract the maximum "fidelity" >from an album or CD that was recorded in a studio with little or no AC power >conditioning, whose recording consoles were wired with the cheapest solid >and stranded copper wire and whose monitor speakers were probably a pair of >cheap Yamaha NS-10's (if you can make something sound good on an NS-10, it >will sound good on anything). > >They claim to like the "warm" sound of their tube equipment but all they are >doing is getting second-order distortion from running their tubes into a >non-linear region. Tubes distort based on octaves and the distortion product >is pleasant. Transistors distort on odd-order harmonics -- 3rds, 5ths, >etc... And this sounds very clangerous. FETs are even order and so are >often used for audiophile power amplification. > >The phrase "Placebo Effect" was coined for a reason. > >Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
