Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread drmatt
Cor, using intellect without spite? Bring it on! -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread Mnyb
ralphpnj wrote: > Correction: > > In America in the year 2017 all science is now pseudo-science and one is > free to believe the science or not, depending on how the science may > effect one's bottom line. One of the wonderfull things about scientific results is that they are true even if you d

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread ralphpnj
Julf wrote: > And even for bit depth and sample rates, it becomes a simplistic > pseudo-science application of numbers based on "bigger is better". Correction: In America in the year 2017 all science is now pseudo-science and one is free to believe the science or not, depending on how the scien

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread Julf
Oh, and just after I posted that I saw the World Health Organization warning about measles making a comeback in the western world due to people not vaccinating their children... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quacker

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread Julf
ralphpnj wrote: > for audiophiles this means one can believe in measurements when it comes > to bit depth and sample rates (as in digital audio) but not when to > comes to harmonic distortion (as in tubes versus solid state). And even for bit depth and sample rates, it becomes a simplistic pseud

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread ralphpnj
Archimago wrote: > Let's try to change that Ralph! Promote another "option", "path", > "school" to follow in the public Forums and Marketplaces... > > Men (usually) of distinction willing to submit to reason, objectivity, > and scientific techniques like ABX and blind testing to adjudicate > har

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread Julf
Archimago wrote: > I believe the path of the "subjectivist audiophile" is weak, ignorant, > and clearly rests on an unstable foundation based on nothing but -faith- > in false or grossly intellectually compromised idols and idiosyncratic > "high priests" I agree. Unfortunately that is a very pop

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA

2017-03-28 Thread Archimago
ralphpnj wrote: > Ranks right up there with some other oxymorons like "military > intelligence" and "elevated subway" Let's try to change that Ralph! Promote another "option", "path", "school" to follow in the public Forums and Marketplaces... Men (usually) of distinction willing to submit to r