Thank you Archimago for another excellent set of test results. However I am afraid that you are beating a very dead horse when it comes to high end audio and digital cables. As long as the high end audio magazines depend on advertising money to stay in business then high priced digital cables will ALWAYS be deemed absolutely essential for any and all high end audio systems.
What I am currently enjoying is the new craze for DSD high resolution audio. What the clowns (you know my pet name for the editors and writers in the high end audio magazines) are failing to tell their readers is just how dead of format DSD actually is. Sony pulled the plug on DSD because many recording studios refused to buy the equipment needed to record in DSD especially so soon after they had retrofitted from analog to PCM digital. So what exists of DSD is either converted analog recordings or the very small handful of native DSD recordings made before the format failed. As far as the converted analog recordings are concerned I've yet to see or hear any proof that high resolution DSD sounds better than high resolution PCM, i.e. 24bit/96kHz. But by feeding into the DSD craze the high end audio industry is generating yet another revenue stream, very similar to what was accomplished with the asynchronous USB craze. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100780 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
