netchord wrote: > these are only the most likely causes if you believe, as you seem to, > that there can be no differences unless something is "broken."
To be clear, let's remember we're talking about the perception of differences between FLAC and AIFF, not differences in general. These are lossless formats, which means that the bits arriving at your DAC (unless, as I said, something in your replay chain is broken) are the same. I think that we can agree that this is fact, not opinion. So let's assume that nothing is broken. Now we're looking for something that makes the same thing sound different. What could it be? We don't need to wonder, or to rewrite the physics of data transmission, because there are libraries full of evidence of the effects of what I called above "psychological factors", that is, the capacity of the human mind to delude itself. If you want to have a further (sensible) discussion on the issue, the first thing to do is to show that the plausible explanations above do not apply. Then, and only then, do we have an interesting result worthy of debate. This is the scientific method - I'm not making it up. Without it, we would not be able to listen to musical events across space and time at all. At the risk of hammering the point home, we are discussing a scientific subject, so we must apply the scientific method. Otherwise, there is little to talk about. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13460 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98630 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
