jh901 wrote: > Is it ok if there are some who desire even better sound quality than > what you are happy with?
Of course. It's your money, and whatever makes you happy... > Do you see how you are relying on logical fallacy here? No - I think you just don't understand the logic. > None of the top audiophile amp, DAC, or speaker designers rely on faith > or wives' tales. True, as long as we talk about real designers, and not just "designers" who take a basic circuit (or application note supplied by a chip manufacturer) and throw in some "audiophile grade" parts and a fancy box. > I don't either and neither do any number of informed audiophiles. As soon as you claim "I know what I hear" or "I know DSD sounds better than 44.1/16 PCM ", you actually do. > If I report that I'm hearing a dramatic improvement in various aspects > of sound quality when I switch to my current front end from the > Transporter, then the last thing you should be thinking is that I'll > have to prove it by setting up a testing environment that you approve > of. Quite. You only need to do that if you want us to believe you. > Design matters. Quality of parts matters. Yes, but is no guarantee - the design still has to be verified. > The reputation and prior achievements of the head engineer matters. Not really. > Yes, they engineer with sound principle. They do measure and test. Yes, they base their designs on science. Because what they design is technology - applied science. The same science we need to apply when analyzing an discussing the gear, unless subjective preferences and impressions is all we are interested in. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103849 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
