Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread toby10
rolski wrote: . Off to the airport soon, I might suggest that the captain tries an asynchronous usb interface in the autopilot to see if we experience a smoother, more analogue (liquid ?) landing :eek: Perhaps Boeing could use some better cables to smooth out the lithium battery

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread SBGK
rolski wrote: I thought this thread had been nicely put to bed ! Wrong again well the thread was about the best top end player, but it seems to have been hijacked by luddites with either poor hearing or poor equipment such that they can't hear differences the rest of the audiophile

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread pippin
SBGK wrote: they can't hear differences the rest of the audiophile world can hear. Except for in double blind tests, of course pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread rolski
Indeed, it was about the best top-end-player (the definition of which seems to be open to very wide interpretation) but it's all veered off into la-la-land. The rational members of the community, and indeed outside the community, don't even profess to hear differences when faced with different

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread Jeff52
Here is a link http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?1151-Audible-Jitter-amirm-vs-Ethan-Winer to an interesting debate about audibility of jitter and jitter in general which may be of interest to readers of this thread.

[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] best clasical pressings maybe

2013-01-19 Thread TheOctavist
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Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread Julf
rolski wrote: A lot of Audiophiles, perhaps the majority, perhaps the minority, spout self-serving (and uninformed) opinion. If a signal is not corrupted or altered in any way when it travels down a cable - then it isn't corrupted or altered. As simple as that. Electricity, signal

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread Julf
SoftwireEngineer wrote: what bothers me is even Steve Nugent says higher end USB cables might change the sound of his Off-Ramp. Isn't appealing to a higher authority something from religion and belief systems rather than science?

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread Mnyb
Julf wrote: Isn't appealing to a higher authority something from religion and belief systems rather than science? Higher authority in high end :) is there such a thing ,I know there actually are a tiny minority of knowledgeable people . But sometimes we have to quote experts in fact no one

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread RonM
rolski wrote: Some of us however think that magicians are actually immoral - and we don't like people to be taken advantage of. Maybe we should mind our own business let the world go to hell ? The world of magic, as in stage magic, provides a useful context for this debate. I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is the best top end player now ?

2013-01-19 Thread ralphpnj
RonM wrote: The world of magic, as in stage magic, provides a useful context for this debate. I have personally known prominent stage magicians (among them the late Doug Henning). That world revolves around illusion -- doing things that really just can' be done. It's skilled artifice,

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] ** High Bit-Rate MP3 Test Up! **

2013-01-19 Thread Archimago
OK guys - 100 respondents now. Asia has finally come on-line :-) 2 more weeks... The results are looking interesting! Keep 'em coming. Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this