Mnyb wrote: > Try a blind test seriously ? > > And re volume 100% disable replay gain/smart gain it lowers the volume > in comparison !! I think this is a common cause for miss understanding > this is obvious with modern loudness war pop the volume gets > -10dB > lower . > > But with a good quality recording replay gain introduces subtle > adjustment like -0,2 -1,5dB this may not be heard as a volume difference > ,but the louder source is perceived as "better" more detailed better > bass etc .
It's not so much better bass or treble, it's an obvious improvement in dimensionality as mentioned earlier - it's very clear and very obvious using a good quality CD transport (I am talking �5000 worth of CD player/transport here) - but the point of my exercise was to try and get a much much cheaper computer based transport to sound at least as good because a computer (a SBT is a form of computer) does not have to spin a CD and deal with real time error correction. However, it would seem that you get what you pay for after all (to date - I am not beaten yet). I have ripped the CD's using dBpoweramp as carefully as possible into WAV files. Computer based sources have been SBT and netbook using USB connected to an Async USB DAC (the same DAC used by the CD transport which also has SPDIF in). However I have recently been attracted to buy a heavily discounted Onkyo ND-S1 digital dock from Richer Sounds (�40) - so far getting good results at home. I am streaming WAV files from a PC to an iPod Touch (gen 4) docked into the Onkyo which totally bypasses the internal DAC of the iPod then uses its high precision clock and SPDIF feeding a good quality output to your chosen DAC... Yes I have dismissed the SBT and general computer for now in favour of something which is perhaps a little more 'pure' and dedicated in extracting the digits using this high precision clock. At least I am still using a computer source.... however I am yet to convince my colleague when I get round to visiting him again. Let's hope that the ripping element of this whole experiment is not letting the side down (if you believe the article, then it is). Otherwise it will be garbage in (i.e. the original rip) garbage out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stop-spinning's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43254 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97019
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