jh901 wrote: > Not on the internet where anonymity leads to incivility. Anyone can > masquerade as a subject matter expert. Winning hearts and minds, > discovery and curiosity are evils here, for example. This isn't an > audiophile forum now if it ever was. It's a shame because, in reality, > we are so fortunate to be in a golden era of hi-end gear. And it's not > only the gear, but the formats and music- vinyl, hi-rez PCM, DSD, SACDs, > redbook CDs. Music recorded in the 50s into the 70s, 80s and even 90s > has never sounded better. Yet, it's accepted here that the industry > which makes our hobby so rewarding are full of criminals and crazies. > > If everyone wanted the build quality of the rather cheaply made > Transporter, then that's all we'd have. The new Astell & Kern looks > incredible. The engineering on the inside is what will deliver great > sound quality. What gives!?
You keep on missing the point: The world of high end audio features plenty of good ideas and lots of great sounding equipment. Over the years the various assaults at producing state of the art audio equipment truly has resulted in advancing the overall sound quality of all audio equipment. Hopefully this will continue well into the future. That being said, the world of high end audio also features plenty of dishonest individuals promoting FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) in an effort to make MONEY! The latest craze to hit high end audio is DSD. Why do I say that the DSD craze is pure FUD, well a simple search of the internet reveals all one needs to know about why DSD is just more FUD for the simple reason that it is nearly impossible to edit DSD in its native format. I say "nearly impossible" because there is a way to edit DSD but this requires a very special machine of there are a few in existance. What this means that in order to edit something recorded in DSD one must first convert the DSD files to PCM then edit the PCM files and finally convert the edited PCM files back to DSD. So basically there are two kinds of "pure" DSD recordings, the first being analog recordings converted to DSD with no editing and the second being recordings made to DSD with no post production editing. Al other DSD recordings are pure BS. So please tell me why the editors and writers of the various high end audio magazines and web site do not make this easy to find information about DSD recordings available to their readers? Because this simple little FACT would mean the end of what has so far proven to be a nice little income stream as one kool-aid drinking audiophile after another coughs up money for the latest DSD capable DAC. And you wonder why I am always so negative towards the high end audio press, come on the evidence is right there staring you in the face but yet you and many other audiophiles still worship these dishonest and/or ignorant individuals. 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=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
