I'm cheaper than you :) I can change my opinions completely for no more than 200k$ I'm investing in a new apartment . I'll photograph my hifi rig with all the fancy cables and publish in any hifi fora of your choice .
Cable vendors please pm me ... But joking aside a pity that the throughput was not better but it proved another point everything works perfectly until it does not , anything in the player buffer will play just the same . no subtle degrading of sound . Ethernet is truly something else than the typical audio interface its designed to work this way . As pointed out you can make a measurable difference with cables not fit for purpose in the *spdiff interface* this interface is much more sensitive . But can you hear it ? differences at those low levels is generally completely inaudible . The classic experiment of using steel coat hangers as spdif cables comes to mind , this probably disturbs the interface a bit , if I may guess . Proper cabling is prudent . Audiophiles go about it the wrong way they argue for specific tweaks or at the moment hyped things or cables (thank you audio pre$$ ) . IF they truly understood the scientific method : 1. First prove that we can discern stuff down at -110dB with music playing at the same time . The general consensus in reality (not in la la la land ) is that when the noise or distortion is that far below any threshold of hearing the character or source of the disturbance does not matter it can be very nasty but you wont hear it no matter what. If you again find that we cant forget the rest. Everything with this low levels of problem is transparent .Proof is a blind study sighted testing are always to biased to serve as information at all . This is a general case the door would open to many things.. 2. Congrats .You managed to prove that human hearing is magnitudes better then previously believed . Now its time to test any digital transport of reasonably proper design wallmart DVD player or better . Do screen for high end cargo cult designs some of these are actually broken by design and cant be used ,but some will be very well made and perform excellent . As proven many times no decent DAC changes it output with different transports the signal leaving the DAC is the same in any case . Yet another round of tedious DBT tests.... But this is again a genral case just prove that any transport within reasonable performance makes any difference . 3. Wov amazing you done it ,now we can start even thinking about cables . Or just scrap all that and uses some reasoning, occams razor and probablity comes to my mind . Someone claims a results that breaks the laws of physic and there is no known mechanism to explain it . they are two systems to consider . ( In this thought experiment we exclude the charlatans making the $$$ their bias is very simple .) 1. a very simple electronic system with fully understood science (yes audio is more or less fully understood there is no great mystery , another myth keept alive by the usual suspects ) this system behaves very well and is predictable . every run gives the same result . 2. A person with a human brain , its awesomely complex and poorly understood , the personality and experience is not predicable and subject to countless cognitive biases . The complexity and unknowns involved are truly humbling . Faced with a result that seems to brake the rules and are truly fantastic where would your investigation start :) I choose door nr 2 . It's just overwhelmingly more likely . In fact so overwhelmingly likely that the burden of proof is on the person making these fantastical claims . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
