arnyk wrote: > Once upon a time audio gear was in general poorly refined, and much of > it did in fact sound different. This was largely true through at least > the 1950s.
Indeed. Most quality stuff these days is completely transparent, unless broken by design or otherwise. Speakers excluded. But the problem inherent in sighted testing will never disappear. That's the subject I was trying to adress. arnyk wrote: > Looking at the market for audio snake oil, this may not be true. > Effective snake oil pitches are usually based on some relatively > inexpensive magic component that will solve some inherent audible system > problem. > > An ideal example of this component will be that it addresses some > problem without requiring a total upgrade of very expensive parts of the > audio system such as speakers or amplifiers. It should install with > minimal risk or difficulty. It should be priced just under $200 because > expenditures of this size will not be difficult to finance. Exactly. Only $199.95 and it magically solves all imaginable problems. And then some. (Bang should here be interpreted as a beneficial change in performance. Perhaps I was unclear.) Best Regards, Gandhi not often enough well recorded and mastered cds *|* dbpoweramp with accuraterip *|* flac *|* fanless asrock z77e-itx intel i5-3570t *|* ubuntu 12.04.1 lts 32-bit *|* lms 7.8.0 *|* brutefirdrc 3.0 (rewv5) *|* transporter (balanced out) *|* thule ia252b *|* audio physic scorpio *|* no fancy cables. *+* also some booms. *+* harmony 525s for them all, including waking the server from s3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gandhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
