satkinsn wrote: > Doesn't look like this has been noted so far - Kirk McElhearn, who > writes for MacWorld and a few other places - has posted a series of > articles on the claims audiophile magazines make about cables. You can > find them all currently on the front page of his web site, 'Kirkville' > (http://www.mcelhearn.com/). > > s.
Kirk is now an honorary member of the Squeezebox Forum Audiophile Section Naysayers. A good read and very reassuring. Now if only the tech crowd would follow the same principles when reviewing the latest tech equipment. For example check out this piece of complete fluff - http://www.eweek.com/pc-hardware/slideshows/my-mac-pro-10-reasons-it-was-a-smart-purchase-decision.html/?kc=EWKLABNL03192014STR1&dni=113138310&rni=22086042 - makes one wonder if the author is fishing for a "free" computer from Apple. And on a related note, some of the real juicy bits were in the What HiFi? blog McElhearn linked to: > I'd also like to state that my opinions have absolutely nothing to do > with advertising revenue or the cable manufacturers themselves (despite > what some people would want to believe). I didn't mention any > manufacturers for that very reason. But I guess that a reader gullible enough to believe that expensive digital cables "sound" better than less expensive digital cables will also believe the above quoted nonsense. 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=101257 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
