Nostromo;188574 Wrote: > I don't think you could accuse people like Peter Aczel of being > ignorant. :) Check out the Audio Critic by yourself. > > http://theaudiocritic.com/cwo/Back_Issues/
I can and since he is supposed to know better, I'll change that to arrogant and stupid. That is, if he really said what you quoted above or close to that. Nostromo;188574 Wrote: > I'm quite a newb in these matters and I'm no sound engineer, but they > seem to me more knowledgable and more responsible than most audio > publications out there (yes, I'm looking at you Stereophile) Sometimes, > they can state their claims a little too bluntly, without proper > qualifiers. > > Stating that all CD-players sound the same takes away all credibility > they might have had. > > > Nostromo;188574 Wrote: > > But at the end, they'll save you money so that you'll be able to put it > > on what really matters, the speakers for example.> > > > Garbage in, garbage out. If the soúrce and/or amp is not up to the > job no speaker in the world can save that and to make it even worse > good speakers will make poor sound from any component earlier in the > chain painfully obvious. On the other hand it goes both ways and a > poor speaker will be poor with the best amp and source too. > > > Nostromo;188574 Wrote: > > Now, you won't find their findings about CD players in the back issues > > of the Audio critic. At least, I didn't find them. Maybe they're just > > quoting someone else's findings. I know some people conducted some > > double blind tests and I'm still looking for them. I'll have to see > > those tests results before I come to the conclusion that all CD players > > sound the same. I still believe that different DAC's sound different.> > > > So if one or a few blind tests gives a null result, you will believe > that that proves there is no difference? > From a scientific perspective a null result is nothing but a null > result, it certainly doesn't prove that there is no difference. -- johann ------------------------------------------------------------------------ johann's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10177 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33368
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