Skunk;162998 Wrote: > Are you saying that they sounded exactly the same, and his mind invented > the preference for one over the other? > > Had he picked the cd player in a blind test, would that have made the > sound intrinsically better?
I'm saying the sound from the CD player went through D-A (in the CD player), then A-D and again D-A in the preamp. The SB digital out went through D-A only, in the preamp. It's pretty hard to believe that the CD sound could be in any objective sense better after going through such a chain of conversions, and yet he prefers it. Probably because it's got nice glowing tubes, and it's expensive. Are you asking for a definition of better sound? I can think of several, although none that are fully satisfactory. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30668 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
