ralphpnj wrote: > I think that the "I too was once a true kool-aid drinking audiophile" is > pretty much the norm for must of the regular posters on this forum Since we're exchanging stories of how we came to see the light...
Back in the early 2000's I compared my Micro-Seiki CD-M100 CD player (16 bit 4x oversampling multibit Philips chipset) to a Lucid DA9624 (24 bit 96kHz DAC using some kind of sigma-delta conversion technology). The two DACs could hardly be more different. Level matched with a 1kHz test tone, and connected via a Nakamichi CA7 preamp to ATC SCM100A speakers. I was surprised how similar they sounded, but convinced myself that the Lucid seemed somewhat more detailed. So I then asked my wife to run a blind comparison, and scored precisely 50% - ie. there was no audible difference. Having your audiophile beliefs exposed to be illusory via a blind test is a "Road to Damascus" experience. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101342 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
