ralphpnj;619650 Wrote: > Full of it? No. Misguided? Yes. > > Much, if not all, of what you and Mervin describe can just as easily be > described in easy to understand technical terms instead of the > completely worn out audiophile mumbo-jumbo. > > For example: > > Instead of "like there's less happening in quieter passages, allowing > you to hear decaying acoustics and other low level detail better" try > "lower noise floor and increased signal to noise ratio". > > Instead of "blacker blacks" try "lower noise floor and less background > electronic noise such as hiss". > > The issue isn't that there are no differences between various pieces of > audio equipment but rather that these differences can and SHOULD be > explained with simple technical terms instead of nonsense like "blacker > blacks" and "lifted veils". > You can write the way you want to, but you don't need to tell me how to write.
I'm an engineer, and to claim "lower noise floor and less background electronic noise such as hiss", I'd need to have (1) heard or measured lower noise, (2) heard less hiss. Unfortunately I have not heard or measured any such thing. In any case, I describe the musical experience, not the physical phenomenon of vibrations hitting my auditory organs. I'm quite active in music (performance and education), and if I threw "lower noise floor and increased signal to noise ratio" at my musician friends, they would tell me to stop speaking mumbo-jumbo ;). To most of them your description won't tell them anything about how it sounds. There's always room for objectivity and measurements, and it seems to be that what I describe as blacker blacks, and you insist is lower noise floor are two sides of the coin. The fact that I observe a correlation with my use of quieter rectifier diodes may point to the fact that we are probably in agreement as to what is happening electrically too. However I consider it somewhat speculative to claim conclusively that the diodes are directly leading to the blacker blacks, or lowering the noise floor. Perhaps they are, but then again they might not be. I just describe what I observe, and what I hear. Cheers. -- mervin_b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mervin_b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42376 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86399 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
