furnace wrote: > Interestingly, I have just finished a fairly intensive listening test. I > currently have a PiA and a PiB both with Hifiberry DACs installed and > both running 1.21c. I hooked them up to the RCA inputs on my regular > amp, one (PiA) using RCA/RCA from the Hifiberry, and one (PiB) using > 3.5mm/RCA lead from the 3.5mm socket on the Pi board. I then synced the > two players together in SqueezeCommander and conducted blind listening > tests with two helpful offspring switching the amp between the two > inputs. (The amp's volume control needed adjusting each time, so I am > guessing that the different audio pathways provide a different level of > output?) Anyway, I was expecting to hear a meaningful difference between > them....but I couldn't. And neither could my children who have fairly > discerning ears. I had heard that connecting by ethernet could introduce > noise, so I used ethernet for the analog 3.5mm jack connected Pi in > order to accentuate any difference between the Pis. > > I feel deflated.....but still love the piCoreplayer.
No reason to feel deflated. You just confirmed what many of us have been saying for a long time - modern digital technology is so much better than most source material, speakers and rooms (not to mention human ears) that any improvements have to come from those components, not the player/dac/amp. But thank you for a) going through the trouble of doing the test, and b) reporting the result, even if it wasn't what you might have expected. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
