Archimago wrote: > Yup... Good points all. > > *Bottom line: *The Industry -needs -us to believe the filters are a "big > deal". After all, how else to differentiate digital audio of which > essentially any decent DAC over the last 20 years has sounded very good > already!? Maintaining this sense of wonder and belief in claims > underpins many of the advertised benefits for companies as disparate as > PS Audio, Ayre / Pono, Meridian, T+A, Chord all the way to MQA and its > promise of "revolutionary" sound quality. > > What the audiophile world truly needs to evolve and "revolve" is a > realization of the objective mindset in terms of adjudicating the > engineering around devices and file "formats". Time for the pendulum to > swing back to objectivity... A long time coming but I remain hopeful > that we can all contribute to making an impact.
Begs the question - how much would audio technology progree if so much time, capital, and intellect were applied to things that actually mattered. I found a list of commercially-available DACs and it had about 400 items on it. This is truely amazing to me, partically because I know from practical experience that upwards of 90% of those products are not audibly different in any practical way. As I recall the list did not include other products that incorporated DACs as critical components such as AVRrs, equalizers, and PCs so the actual number of alternatives in this field add up to thousand's of redundant products. All of that redundant engineering, marketing, sales, labor and capital flushed down the porcelain convenience! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106979 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
