cliveb;513271 Wrote: > There is a huge body of scientific research which very nicely explains > why you and your friends hear what you hear. > But it's nothing to do with engineering - it is in the domain of > psychology. > You know something has changed, and think it might make a difference, > so you hear one.
Yes, I know about the psychological effect, and I've been very careful with my listening tests. FWIW, in my old system, I was not able to hear such differences because either the resolution is not high enough, or there is a higher noise floor. My current system offers such high resolution that I can discern such small differences. In my experience, 2 main issues muffle the music you hear: noise on AC and jitter. Noise from switching PS is especially bad and can cross pollute other components via the AC sockets. You need component isolation on the AC. Jitter can be induced by noise on the power supply. I've a custom made balanced transformer with Faraday shield and a PS Audio PPP AC regenerator (cascade connection). These take care of common mode and differential mode noise on my AC line. PPP's output offers component isolation. The jitter is dealt with using linear PS on all components (my TacT 2.2xp and Big Ben). BB is really just the icing on the cake, it takes TP to the last little mile where it cannot do by itself. -- Kuro ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kuro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74721 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
