Nicely done Archimago I'm always amazed at the tempest in a teapot that high resolution audio has become. I say this because the vast majority of people listen to their music with those freebie headphones that come with their smart phones. That is when they are actually listening to a song or album that they downloaded or ripped. For the remainder of the time they are more than likely listening to the audio track from youtube video. And when their not using those crappy earphones then they are listening to the those tiny speakers in either their phone, tablet or computer. So much for any kind of "sound quality". Reminds me of the fact that many people spend hours watching stretched, standard resolution video on their fancy HDTVs when the high definition version is just a button push away.
As for the issue of dynamic range compression I'll repeat what I've been saying for years - start listening to either jazz or classical music since neither of these genres suffers from the effects of the loudness war. Just want to let you know that the Pono player sounds great when playing a Pono branded high resolution remaster with the latest Apple freebie earphones! :) 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=103034 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
