jimbobvfr400 wrote: > Actually Ralph I disagree, I think milled billet fronts and the like are > a massive psychological boost to Audiophiles. As you would freely admit > to yourself what we hear when using a HiFi is massively influenced by > factors other than the actual science with our own prejudices and human > failings having a disproportionate influence. To that end HiFi that > looks, feels and smells like HiFi can be a big factor for lots of folks. > > > Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
What you state is very true but I can't help but notice that you make no mention of the how "milled billet fronts and the like" actually improve the sound of a given piece of audio equipment. In other words, what I'm trying to say is that, for example, Bryston's use of expensive metal cases does not mean that it *sounds* any better the mostly plastic Squeezebox Touch, although the Bryston BDP-2 would *look* much nicer sitting in a rack of equally fancy audio equipment. 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=100948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
