ADM is flawed in many ways. I can name a couple, but there are more. 1. It is unable to detect differences b/w a transport of low jitter and high jitter. The sonic differences can be clearly heard including ABX tests. Maybe they dropped the stuff that they classified as "uninteresting".
2. It falsely assumes a component change will change the entire audio band, so some differences can be found. But in fact many components will only change the frequency of a certain audio band. This places the burden on the user to supply a test track with the proper energy on certain frequency spectrum in order to be able to find the differences. The test tracks in their samples with just a female vocal is a bad one, it just can't find changes in low bass. I prefer ABX. It is a much more reliable test than ADM. When I go auditioning a vendor's hi-fi gear, I never arm myself with just one music track and be able to determine if that system is good or great. Many music tracks I'm familiar with are required to fully test the capability of a system. Using one test track on ADM is no different than the above. -- 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
