I'm cool the thing In have against for example set amps is more like how they are selling it. they use TAS style arguments .
The claims are that these are actually better amplifiers than modern designs. Better resolution and dynamics etc ? This is not the case . A more modest and true claim would be that they provide a certain euphonic property that sounds nice on some easy to drive speakers, but they are not reproducing the signal as acurate as possible. If one use the original hifi definition= high fidelity ,the devices should aim to reproduce the input signal as true as possible . Then products delibaretly adding gross colouration falls outside of what hifi per definition is . Then of course they actually do something :) many tweaks do absolutly nothing. But such hifi is sold with TAS like pseudo science arguments, that it mysteriusly actually sounds better despite the bad technical performance and clearly audible artifacts and that "sounds better" is not a matter of taste but it should be interpretted as you hear more content of the recording. duringbthe years Inhave seen all kinds of bad arguments that normally designed electronics remove some unmeasurable quality that was there , but it is mysteriuslynretored with [ insert cult design ] these are also tru audio myths and fits the topic. There may be no clear cut demarkation line at all . i think I owned products that fit all these categories in the same product . Real solid engineering + cult engineering + nonsense you can also add expensive exterior design to this. I fondly remeber the original NAD idea , just performance nothing else and an ugly box. Maybe the topic is to wide audio myths have a wide scope there is plenty in every field of audio design, loudspeaker myths amp myths CD myths . Was Octavist intent only to bring up the latest fad in squeezebox tweaking and computer audio ? If so I think let the treads rest from my input for a while -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
