SoftwireEngineer wrote: > Right, I guess I am having trouble finding that "certain point" :-) > Sorry, as always I find myself as the 'middle-of-the-road' person, say > compared to you and jh ... > I am now listening to my Touch in a wired setup.. (wifi disabled) the > extender reporting 65% wifi connectivity and 96khz/24bit playing without > any hiccups.. normal res sounds better. > Let me describe the sound - things are quieter, each instruments sounds > separate..I am able to listen to at a lower volume and still hear all > the instruments. And I am able to listen for longer periods as though > suddenly some harshness, which I did not realize was there, has been > removed. I can now identify the organ in Enya's music..it seems more > real and noticeable. > I did not "expect" this change before going in I put the extender mainly > for the sake of my blu-ray player streaming Netflix. Well, all this > could be my imagination. But I am seriously thinking jitter is probably > not necessarily the sidebands way down in db. Some other aspect of it > might be at play..
My response is to ask you a question: why is it that only in the field of digital audio are two digitally identical data streams, by which I mean two data streams that contain the exact same digital data being transmitted or sourced slightly differently, e.g. wifi versus Ethernet or SD card versus hard drive, declared to be somehow different? NO ONE ever says such things about ANY other type of digitally encoded data - never for image files, text files, video files, etc. NEVER. It is only the world of high end audio with its army of well trained clowns, oops I meant golden eared professional reviewers, that this issue is ever mentioned. Billions of times each day people upload and download all kinds of digital data and NO ONE ever questions whether or not the downloaded file is equal to the uploaded file - NEVER. But in high end audio something happens to that damn digital data to make the files different. As an example of the complete absurdity of this line of thinking take the example of one of those "professional" audio reviewers listening to a high resolution audio file downloaded from HDTracks. Why is that the audio file can be downloaded via the internet during which time the digital data passes through hundred of networks, miles of inexpensive cable, countless switches, gets sliced and diced into hundreds of packets, gets reassembled and who knows what else but it is only the USB cable from the computer to the USB DAC that has an impact on the sound? Can someone, anyone please explain what it is about digital audio data that gives it this totally unique property. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
