opaqueice wrote: > 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.
Do you trust your ears? Did you listen to this? It doesn't necessarily follow that more processing = worse sound. I agree that intuitively this might appear to be the case but there are all sorts of reasons why we might prefer a processed sound... > Probably because > it's got nice glowing tubes, and it's expensive. ...some of which may be psychological, but maybe the tube CD player is "warming up" (yes, colouring) the sound which the OP prefers. R. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
