pablolie wrote: > I didn't join the discussion, but the way I read things is that you > misdiagnosed disagreement with a personal attack. In Internet > discussions, we have to learn to be told with people vehemently > disagreeing and telling us we're utterly wrong. That's not an attack. > Nor where you an innocent bystander, you certainly did shell it out. > > Personally - I am somewhere inbetween when it comes to the science in > audiophile entertainment argument. I think the audio hobby is irrational > by definition, and we all have our pockets of craziness to define > ourselves as "audiophiles" and read this forum. 99% people out there are > perfectly happy with their smartphone and the free earbuds that shipped > with it. I for one fully enjoy merely visual improvements to my system, > and freely admit I enjoy it more if it pleases not only my ears, but > also my visual and tactile senses. I don't claim I can hear a > difference, but I simply enjoy it more, and psychoacoustics are relevant > to the overall experience. I am pretty sure my favorite jazzband sounds > better to me in a suave Manhattan cafe than in a Bronx trash disposal > site. There's nothing wrong with psychoacoustics. They matter. But > scientifically speaking - we should be careful about making claims that > an experiment is reproducible. There are tons of audio tests out there > that show it all comes down to 50% chance (basically, accident). But I > for one have never confused ABC tests with simple musical enjoyment. > > I am glad that I have been able to tell the difference between 320k MP3 > and FLAC with music I am very familiar with (it is a damnably close > call, and stressful, and not at all fun). Cables? Even DACs? Unless they > were total screwups I was never able to reliably tell the difference. > The one DAC I was able to tell apart was simply because of higher noise > floor. I am pretty sure that id I am able to tell the difference between > MP3 and FLAC I don't have the worst hearing in the planet, hence I can > live with the fact most DACs sound pretty much exactly the same. So > what. I still like mine a lot. Mostly because it has a feature set I > value. > > You started a discussion about "which chip sounds better?", which given > the fact there isn't a universal test bench design that allows you to > interexchange the chips within the same overall system makes little > sense. Yes, I do read the article speculating that supposedly the latest > SABRE chip is the best and what not, but I don't really think it'll make > a big difference to my ears. Speakers? Hell yeah. An amplifier that > matches them? Sure. Better source material? Bring it. Digital stuff? > Meh. Cables? Ha.
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