drmatt wrote: > I don't disagree. But I am sure I can tell the difference.. therefore > what differences there are must exist in that top 13 bits or so of > dynamic range.. cue the sirens.. > > I doubt I could tell the difference with a frequency sweep though.
You have to test that sometime ? When I was a card carrying audiophile I was utterly convinced that I did hear differences everywhere . Best case scenario is quite common , I think the exotic boutique hif is more prone to weirdness . Normal midfi probably has robust line level implementation. This the kind of things sites and audio press should test ? Not listening to power cables . It should be trivial to make a modern AV reciever perfectly transparent, but they migth not be , the complexity of such product makes mistakes likely and as they are complex to test ? Looks like work , better wax about the life like presentation of some preamp :) Example some dude had problems here years ago with distortion from his squeezebox, turned out that his tube preamp clipped at 0.5 volt input ? Some kind of Manley product ! You can easily beat high boutique stuff with chines DVD players from Walmart :) regarding performance . Point is that it's well known electrical engineering . We miss out from high end due their development process/marketing scam tactics ,sighted eveluation and weird beliefs that disregard common best practice on how to do stuff , instead make it complex and expensive and anachronistic. Household products can be very good if the engineer bothered reading the standard textbooks it does not really cost much to implement soundquality due to readily aviable chipset and even design examples from the factory, but most regular customers don't really care so it can be there or not . Kudos,to,the likes of oppo who does it good . And also kudos to the cottage industry that builds HAT DAC's for PI , that's hifi at reasonable prices 10-30k$ on a DAC is just silly . Btw is not the Transporter very similar to the then current AKM reference design ? With some help from the actual AKM engineers . I respect the TP's fresh aproach to high end, it is a top class product it was as expensive as squeezebox possibly needed to bee throwing more money at it would not have improved the product . And yes why not ask the chip manufacturer about how to best use thier products :) For giggles Google all the old treads with people modding the TP ( making it worse ) swapping capacitors and sticking tubes into it. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
