Yeah, hearing damage works too. I'd love to see someone demonstrate their ability to hear noise floor modulation on an AK4499 DAC in mono mode.
Yep, I am always surprised by how many modern recordings have relatively high noise floors.
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I meant the hiss not pops and crackle, the things you mentioned even in small residual amounts are annoying.
Sighted test and expectations......according to the usuals in this thread your appraisal is totally worthless and/or product of your imagination, I am surprised that you so far have not been taken to task/attacked for your lack of scientific method !. However, yes it does beg the question of just how good does a DAC stage need to be ?. The tweaked $5.00 PCM2704 DAC I run directly from my laptop sounds good, really good and is essentially just a 2" extension of the headphone cable, so convenient.
Dan.
Dan,
Yeh, your right, a totally worthless review devoid of any scientific method.
My expectations were based upon reading a number of reviews of all the DACs I compared today, and what I have been listening to over the past twelve months. I am talking about tiny little differences that I am able to disregard. Although the DAC in the G4 iPod shuffle is considered a cut above the onboard iPad headphone DAC. There are so many DACs out there between £100 to £250, I really don’t know where to begin.
I suppose that it could considered to be expectation/confirmation bias, coupled with all the vagaries of testing with blind/not so blind, short term/long term memory blackouts, subjectivist/objectivists and goodness knows what the heck else there is. Amazingly,if I care to listen, I can actually hear the minute differences, and you know what? I really don’t care anymore.
It just seems to me the music matters more than anything else.
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Er Bob, I was talking about 3 strip Technicolor as it was more than 60 years ago, and I am fully aware and cognisant about what the Technicolor company does presently in terms of sound production. Technicolor, as a film process was last used in the 1970’s by Serge Lione to make spaghetti westerns. ToS
I’m pretty sure the whole ‘technicolor sound’ reference was paradoxical in the sense of vivid, maybe even over the top sound?
Technicolour yawn is a standard Aus expression, where have you been ?.
Yes, standard expression.
Promoting what he sells through any means possible.
But he's heard it in subjective listening sessions.
Yes, absolutely right!
You might want to watch the restored version of ‘My Fair Lady’ someday.
Obviously under a rock - Ayers Rock, maybe even Brighton Rock.
No one has suggested that it's an issue with AK4499.
That's called compression and vintage outboard gear.
Every time you compress, there is gain make up involved = noise floor rise. Lot's of vintage mics being used and the same goes for mic pre's. There's your noise. Plenty of great classic recordings were compressed to hell (and back) Here's a good example YouTube Great song, very compressed but done well. Sounds good to me. PS, I love the wood block (or whatever it is) in chorus etc T
I find it interesting when somebody says they know how design speakers, do it textbook, i.e. do a good engineering job and yet candidly admit it does sound all that great, like most textbook speakers (2-way in particular). Rather than say there is some kind of black art involved, could it be that we are overlooking something and that some have semi-blindly found/stumbled across 'ingredients' that deals with the still unknown? I have for some time really wondered about that. Am I alone?
For anyone to say something like that is very naive, do you have any examples?
OK, I understand. It was said here by one of the regular contributors a little while back and it stuck in my head. I paraphrased what he said. So I raised it because it intrigued me that many say that designing speakers is some kind of 'black art' and I don't think that is a satisfying answer.
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