seanadams;213013 Wrote: 
> 
> What's the point? Do you just want attention, or do you actually think
> that you can prove something this way?

I think this is a little overly harsh.  He did try a blind test, or
says he did, and I think we have to take him at his word.  I don't
think he's a troll.

omega, if you really think there's a difference and want to track it
down, the best way is to test possible causes one at a time.  The first
thing to do is record the digital stream going to the DAC in the two
cases, and make sure it's identical.  If it's not it will be very
surprising (it will mean something in the SB really is malfunctioning).
That's very easy to do with any computer soundcard.

Even if the digital stream is identical it's still possible for the
analogue signal coming out of the DAC to be different due to jitter. 
To test that, audiodiffmaker is by far the most precise tool you can
try - it's much better than recording the sound using a mic, or
listening with unaided ears.  So record the analogue out of the DAC
(again, easily done with a computer sound card) and use audiodiffmaker
to compare them.  I did this for WAV versus FLAC in a total of about 20
minutes (most of which was spent searching for a loopback cable),
including installing the software.  This test might exaggerate the
actual differences (because of noise), but it can't underestimate them.


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