iPhone;573497 Wrote: > His review also hints that he has no understanding of Digital Audio. He > talks about the 'satisfying sound' of the Vortexbox. The Vortexbox has > no sound and can't add anything to or take anything from the audio. The fact that he does not understand that makes me completely lose faith in Malcolm Steward as a reviewer as he clearly does not understand hi-fi, let alone computers!
I think a lot of hi-fi journalists are technically incompetent and very "suggestible". Sound quality is so subjective and open to psychological bias that a clear understanding of the technical aspects of sound reproduction is essential in order to be aware of what is likely, and unlikely, to affect sound quality - and to what extent. The main point of course is "rubbish in, rubbish out". Each stage in the music reproduction chain can only add distortion, not information. A friend recently commented how much better "Squeezebox" music sounded through the speakers in my living room compared to my kitchen ones (the Receivers were synched and we were walking back and forth between the rooms). What he failed to appreciate is that the kitchen ones are on the end of a £450 all-in-one CD/Tuner system and the living-room ones are powered by a quite awesome pre/power amplifier whose current equivalent costs over £3,000 (and is a bargain at that price). Having since listened to both pairs of speakers on the end of the Naim amps I would say they sound very similar. But then I might be biased! -- TheLastMan Matt *SqueezeBoxes:* SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) *Server:* Synology Diskstation 107+ NAS (with firmware 2.3-1157) running Squeezebox Server 7.5.0 on Synology Package Manager *Network:* Netgear DG834GT ADSL modem/router, 2 x Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 as access points *Livingroom:* Receiver into Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers *Kitchen:* Receiver into Denon DM37 mini-system, B&W 686 speakers *Study:* Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap/Headline. LPs ripped usingBehringer UCA202 USB into Windows XP PC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81499
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