jh901 wrote: > > If you can't hear an obvious, clear and convincing difference in a > supposed upgrade, then no scientific testing is going change that. My > CD player, for example, sounds so different in my system than a > Transporter that it's as if there are completely different speakers. If > I thought that I needed ABX just to be sure, then I'd have never bought > it.
This is exactly why you should ABX :) Two working digital sources connected to a functioning dac can't sound that different (due to how things really work ) . This IS how perceptional bias mess with your brain if you are so inclined (we all are to a varying degree ) . Having a past as true believer I have not been that rigorous compiling my own setup (otherwise it would have been different ) , but i've seen the price tags on some equipment you tend to consider , so it can be worthwhile to be more scientific . You sometimes throws in nutbalz like Zanden or Lampizator ? Due to the limits of human hearing you may actually end up with such a product (that perform worse than a Chinese 50$ DVD player ) . You could narrow down the field to more reasonable designs , you also mention dCS who measures very well ,on a different planet almost ? (however to expensive ). To be fair i havent heard all of these things ,but some things are so lets say unorthodox and anti science that you dont have to . It's up the such people to actually prove why we should consider voodoo tech of this kind ? When normal electrical engineering and the science of our hearing have other things to say . The laws of electricity works the same for audio a transistor does not if its music or what else it processes . So there is no special case for audio in physics maybe that you can be less rigorous than for example when you design measuring equipment that is much more sensitive than humans . You get away with far worse engineering audio ? It's a waste of time to try everything out there considering for example that most ideas human kind ever had usually turns out to be wrong . So science is great filter unless you have plenty of time and want to randomly test 1000's of things and then finally decide upon a flawed test method (sighted tests ) what extremely expensive thing to buy ? It is truly futile sorry if you really have to go that way . Vibration control a waste of time for modern SS electronics . Believe me i had all kinds of pucks dampers and cones under electronics does not do anything a pure scam that I fell for when I was in the cult . Furniture and room very yes ,for vinyl players yes . I once threw out a set of book cases I definitely could hear :) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=103842
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