Phoenix;428513 Wrote: > It was this kind of stuff which prompted me to start the thread asking > if Slimserver is bit perfect. If you have bit perfect software, you > can't get any better, if it's free, then all the better. And yes, I > think this another instance of an "audiophile" company attempting to > package something which is already perfect and free in another wrapping > and sell it at a stupifying price as a dramatic improvement. A lot of > audiophile gear made sense when we were in an analogue world and a $100 > k turntable could indeed offer superior isolation, speed regulation, and > tracking of recordings when even the minutest traces of such things were > audible, but in a digital world? Not so much, if at all...
Hence my calling it "smoke and mirrors", albeit some rather expensive and, dare I say, way over priced mirrors with cute multi-colored smoke. Oh no, wait, they're using "a playback engine that was used to master about 70% of the CDs you own." But about 70% of most CDs sound like garbage, so why would anyone want that playback engine? -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62958 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
