adamdea;657410 Wrote: > I read Hifi Choice this month (no that's not the red alert). > Now I suggest getting away from any fragile objects before reading on. > > Malcolm Stewart (that noted doyen of information theorists)reports that > differences have been reported in music stored on different hard drives. > probably no surprise with MS who has already reported all amnner of > nonsense. > However I see from the hifi Critic forum that Martin Collums is cross > that the research, which was in fact for hifi critic, has been leaked. > http://www.hificritic.com/Forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=733 > > He says the results were "surprising". I think we all know what that > means (although truthfully it would probably turn out to be surprising > if the results from hifi journalism were not bonkers.) > > Myself, I think equally good results can be obtained by burning the > nearest witch.
Perhaps the reason that such unreasonableness comes out on the pages of so many, no make that ALL, the high end audio magazines is less about insanity and more about money. Here's what I mean: In the case of my favorite bit of nonsense, high priced USB and HDMI cables, once the notion that the high priced cables sound better has first been stated and then accepted as truth it now becomes easy for the cable manufacturers to roll out a line of cables and, this is the important part, take out advertisements in these magazines. It's a win-win in that the magazines get much needed ad revenue and the cable manufacturers make huge profits. Once it is stated that different hard drives (I'm sure that claims for flash drives will soon follow) "sound" different and then this BS is accepted as truth, someone will come out with a hard or flash drive specially made of audio and which "sounds" better than all other hard or flash drives. Another win-win. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch '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=90312 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
