You must have very wrong settings, Frank. I have checked it, and it does not make anything wrong to signals and files.
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Its also not Litz. Litzendraht or Litz wire is woven in a way that all the strands have an equal amount of length at the surface as in the center of the bundle. Rope lay will have conductors that will not ever get to the surface. Also rope lay does not indicate or imply insulated stranding, another key element (but not the only one) of Litz wire.
That was one of the difficulties.
See the first two attachments.I spent some more hours to build a set of cvrs
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Unfortunately, Pavel, this is in the hairy area of the internals of the PC altering the quality of reproduction, depending upon precisely how the file is accessed, processed while playing, etc. In diyAudio this will bring the wrath of the objectivists down upon one with full force, but the truth for me is, with my setup, that it is too much of a factor impacting the quality.
As an example, in some of those listening tests we were doing, A vs. B of a track, say B is 'superior' in Nero - try in foobar ABX, B is now poorer than A was in Nero.
And yes, I've done the rounds with the settings, several times, checked comments on the web, etc.
I'm sure nothing is 'technically' wrong - it's just enough of a negative to get in the way of comparing with the right attitude ...
An interesting point with warmup 'stretching' of cheap audio gear is that there are very obvious, audible to anyone benefits along with the "more subtle" ones. If there is a moment in the track where the cold system is clearly overloading, for a precise volume - the distortion is of the obvious variety; then, after an hour or so that same passage can be played at a considerably higher volume and replay absolutely cleanly - this is blind Freddie stuff ...
Answering such question is easy for me. I just live with them for some period of time. Sleep with the music on each of them.
I'm not saying that it has been that easy. The last frustration was regarding a phenomena where with bad recording a resolving system will be unbearable. I tried hard to proof that it is not true. Now I don't have the issue anymore.
Of course it is. It's called Type 2 litz.
And when you take a number of strands of individual wires, twist them together, and then take a number of those bundles and twist them together, as with a rope lay, that's what you get. Each individual wire on average over a given length will occupy all radial positions from the center outward.
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I trust my ears too. Ears or specs? Remember how some people use advanced measurement tools then tweak the final result by ears. I always thought that there must be something wrong with my microphone, something wrong with my procedure, something wrong with my models, etc. But the inaccuracy should be minimal, and here I trust my ears to be more accurate
I initially thought that, okay I'm not good at measurement works (some said it depends on the man behind the tools), so lets see if with times things will change. What changed was that I trust my ears even more (because now I can see the correlation between figures and perceived sound).
BTW, I don't regret believing in my ears. Why? Because enjoyment in listening to musics is very important for me, and my ears can give me that.
Marce, I hope you learned something new from PMA's (even SY's) responds to your statement. The data is not wrong. It is how you and the audiologist drew the conclusion.
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