amey01;214113 Wrote: > > I certainly hear differences between reading from hard disk / CD / > streaming / optical cables / coax cables, etc. Now, 2007 science says > that I should hear no difference, but that is simply no the case.
You seem to be missing a rather basic point. 2007 science has demonstrated that two identical stimuli, reproduced several times, can and will produce very different perceptions in the same person. So just the contrary, 2007 science predicts that you WILL hear differences even when they're not there - and you do. I've never understood why people have so much trouble with that concept. > > This is the same for every recording format - there is something > inherently deficient in the recording process. And it is not the > capturing of the music. Even my 90% deaf grandmother can walk past a > pub and tell if it is live or recorded music playing. Whether it is > live or recorded - it is still coming out the same crappy PA speakers - > going through the same foul mixing desk and going through the same poor > high-efficiency amplifiers. The mics are the same, and so is the > cabling used to transfer the sound. But if it is recorded it sounds way > off the mark. Again, one day, we might know why. > We do know why, at least more or less. It doesn't have to do with cables or amplifiers or digital sources, which are much much much closer to perfect than anything else in the audio chain. It does have to do with the fact that it's a stereo recording of a non-localized source, played back in stereo in a room very different from the recording venue through very imperfect speakers. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36503 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
