jh901 wrote: > A bold, unsubstantiated claim. Those covering the hi-end from all over > the globe, large publications down to the small online zines, must be > working together to rig the reviews. Oddly, it is pretty rare when when > informed consumers of hi-end gear rat out a clear case of pure BS. I > doubt there is a single hi-end component released by a major hi-end name > in the last decade which received uniform accolades and praise which the > consumers found to be absolute BS. Additionally, if the editors and > writers lie, then you must be bashing the dedicated engineers. Ya know, > the guys who grew up tinkering with audio as a passion. Like, the very > same dedicated professionals who work for dCS, Playback Designs, Cary > and others. I don't know what else to say on the matter.
Really? So for some strange, as yet unexplained reason, digital technology works differently when applied to digital audio. Whereas a $5 HDMI versus a $200 HDMI yields no difference in the quality of the signal and picture sent from a Blu-Ray player to an HDTV, a $5 USB cable versus a $200 USB cable yields orders of magnitude improvements in the digital audio data stream send from a computer to DAC. Odd Or a high resolution digital audio downloaded from HDTracks to one's computer and transmitted via and through hundreds of cables and switches, packets, etc. somehow loses quality when one then converts the file to another lossless format. Again, odd. And please stop mixing up the engineers and designers who work for the high end audio manufacturers with the PR people and the shills who write for the high end audio magazines - they ARE NOT one and the same. Just for the record, I've been an active member of this forum for over 5 years and I've seen many other members come and go. Every so often a member comes along touting all the usual high end audio dogma and more often than not other members do their best to dissuade that member from these senseless beliefs. Sometimes we succeed and sometimes those members get fed up with having to point out simple FACTS to these "true believers" and those members simply give up and find another forum to join. It's not that we think that all amplifiers sound alike or that all DACs sound alike but rather that we think that when there differences or even perceived differences between pieces of equipment, files, etc. that our time not be wasted assigning the differences to reasons that just cannot be. If two USB cables "sound" different then the differences lie not with the cables but somewhere else and unless we outline a clear set of ground rules then we will never figure out if and why there are differences. Finally customers of high end audio are no more discerning than customers of any other products, just try to listen to some of the terrible music that passes for audiophile nirvana. Not to mention $3,000 power cords. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
