ralphpnj;693425 Wrote: > While I agree in principle, in reality things are a bit different. What > I mean is that although the TAS computer music series is complete > rubbish many people will take this very scientific looking nonsense as > somehow valid and some of these ridiculous "findings" are in danger of > becoming accepted dogma in high end audio circles since, after all, no > less an authority than The Absolute Sound published the series. > > For example, I was recently discussing many of these issues with an > audiophile friend of mine who happens to have worked as a vice > president for IT for several very large firms. While he agreed that > most of the information in the computer music was nonsense he did > believe that a more expensive USB cable would work better than a less > expensive USB cable even if the less expensive cable met the minimum > USB cable specifications. > > What I'm afraid will happen as a result of the publication of this > garbage is that some of this misinformation will slowly become general > audiophile knowledge (I use the term "knowledge" very loosely) and then > become an accepted "truth". Basically FUD of the highest order.
Yes this is precisely what I'm afraid of too. To an extent it has already happened, prior to the TAS articles. In the UK there has been a creeping tendency in certain mags to promulgate analogue audio paradigms into the digital world. This started with high-end USB cables (and now ethernet cables) and will rapidly accelerate into improved PSU's for PC's/NAS/Routers etc. It's only a matter of time before someone "invents" (in every sense of the word) a "hi-fi" wi-fi platform, "super audio hard disks" (probably SSD's) and devices (magic bricks) that attach to USB and ethernet cables. Perhaps I can interest you all in my sorbothane mouse mat? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
