konut;520340 Wrote: > OK, I get it!:) If you don't believe that there is better presentation > to be had then, by all means, leave the system alone. OTOH, I thought it > might be useful to point out that there are those that hear a > correlation between levels of distortion and signal to noise WRT > articulation and SQ, that MIGHT explain your perception. I use an > ancient Creek passive remote so I know that Creek makes good stuff. I > also know that there is better stuff out there. Vinyl or Touch? No. > Better amp? Yes, and then better DAC.
If you actually read the measurement sidebar, I do and agree with konut ;) "Channel separation (not shown) was somewhat disappointing but still adequate, at 66dB at 1kHz, decreasing, due to the usual capacitive coupling, to less than 50dB at 20kHz. The amplifier's signal/noise ratio was also a little disappointing, at 74.3dB, wideband, unweighted, ref. 2.83V with the volume control at its maximum. This is very much the worst-case situation; A-weighting improved the ratio to 78dB." and so on.... Mr Atkinson is very diplomatic, there must be something wrong with this ? a faulty test object hopefully ? measurements data of this kind belongs to the late sixties transistor amps (except for power), even if you do believe that there is a very weak correlation between measurements and performance this kind of data implies levels of problems any one can hear, and sure levels of problems that surely would mask finer details of the recordings. It could still have a very nice sound creek has always sounded very nice. But to be able to distinguish very very small differences with it I have an heapdhone amp of their making, sounds nice have a sound of it's own not the last word in resolving power but nice and cosy with lossy files when I'm traveling. The review itself i did not care for, the usual wine tasting analog but without any stringent test methodology making it a nice tale of a man playing CD's trough his stereo. It simply holds no information at all. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: SB3 (soon to replaced by a Touch :) It is on preorder) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Receiver (soon to be replaced by my SB3 and the SBR to be stuffed in a box in the attic ) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75447 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
