Julf wrote: > Indeed. Unfortunately I am afraid the foo will only end because the > whole hobby becomes extinct. 99.99% of people will be happy with the > sound from their iDevices, fashion accessory headsets, docking stations > and chromecast-like devices, and the 0.01% will buy silly-priced luxury > goods just to show off (without actually caring how they really sound).
Audio foo unfortunately has some strong allies in the natural world. The idea that two different things can be different but are still indistinguishable violates most people's common sense. The obvious way to support that common but false wisdom is to do a sighted listening test, and we can expect that test to almost always provide positive results for the universal existence of audible differences. The technical performance of much modern portable digital audio gear is generally the best that most people have ever heard. Portable audio electronics are generally good enough to be sonically transparent or close to it, and replacing speakers with headphones/earphones and bypassing room acoustics eliminates a lot of the common failings of traditional audio systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105507 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
