lovejoy wrote: > As I said at the bottom of my message, just posting my *EXPERIENCE* > based upon many hours of listening and enjoying or not enjoying music. > If you can't hear any difference then all the best to you, you've > achieved the best sound for your system and I'm jealous and wish you all > the best. But don't think that you know everything when you're just > spouting all the stuff we've already read and either see the logic in > (which I do) or disagree with and know that there must be something more > to it (a something which as yet, has not been measured or documented, > which I also do). > > Humans are not measuring devices, so why should a piece of electrical > measuring equipment or a law on sampling theory or transmission lines > provide all of the answers on why digital music reproduction > communicates with us emotionally or not? I suggest you think about that > one!
Oh my what an awful burden it must be to be born with a pair of golden ears. Just thinking about it makes me want to weep. Look I consider myself somewhat of an audiophile but that does not mean that I am willing to swallow each and every audiophile myth hook, line and sinker. What audiophiles seems to have forgotten is that the digital storage method, whether it is used for music, video, words or pictures, was developed as a means to overcome many of the limitations of the analog storage method. Sure digital introduces some limitations of its own but those limitations are not the same as the old analog limitations. And one of the old analog limitations that digital DOES NOT share is that digital is NOT dependent on the storage media and the method of data transmission. By this I mean that it makes no difference how the digital data is stored, be it on a hard drive, a tape, a flash drive or optical disc, nor does it make any difference how it is transmitted, be it via toslink, usb or coax. This feature was "built into" digital from the very beginning and is very well understood (outside of the audiophile world) and is the reason why a youtube video uploaded from China will play back perfectly on a computer located in Texas even though the digital data will passed through countless wires and relays along the way - because ones are ones and zeros are zeros. Now don't get me completely wrong since I do believe in many of the basic ideas of high end audio, such as vibration control in loudspeakers, proper speaker placement, proper power amp and speaker matching, etc. But all of these ideas have one important thing in common: they are all based on good scientific reasoning and can easily be tested and measured. In addition, the previous paragraph does not mean that there is no room for improvement in digital audio, rather it means the areas for improvement lie somewhere other than the means and method of digital data storage and transmission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95872 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
