Ah yes. The good old audiophool fall-back argument.
"If you can't hear the difference then your system sucks."
My system(s) certainly don't suck, they're well above average in fact, yet not super expensive or complex.
Because you don't need to spend $$$$$ for respectable quality.
I could drape a sheet over the components, mask the speakers, and tell people they're Macintosh or some other "high end" stuff - and bet they couldn't tell for sure.
Yet, the insanity over "high end" will continue, just like any other thing.
Dave that gets tiring. Who here said measurement to be the be-all/end-all? Do you make this stuff up?
Jan
Thanks Jan, and yes absolutely! 🙂
I would say it is a common perception throughout the forum 😉
Tony.
Is it insane to say things that have a good chance of boosting your business? Another favourite tactic is to attempt to undermine your hearing acuity if you can't hear a difference.
Hey! My hearing accuity is excellent. I can still hear 15kHz!!
In fact, I hear it all the time! 😀
Certainly human perception is our interface to our audio systems (and everything else). Some physics theories would have our perception creating the world around us.
dave
Any chance we can give up with page after page of rehashed 10 year old argument and get back to looking at the signal path just to see IF there is anything that we just might think worth investigating?
It's a give and take. My ignore list is now at 13. ;-)
I'm not doing that lightly, but if the subject demonstrates again and again that nothing useful comes forth, why waste my time?
Jan
I'm not doing that lightly, but if the subject demonstrates again and again that nothing useful comes forth, why waste my time?
Jan
Only 13? My list runs to 81 and is going a lot more because of this thread, which is its most useful, perhaps only, function. I want to put a certain moderator, known for his outlandish and commercial posts, on the list but the system doesn't allow it.
There is one area where the switch actually can make a difference. I work in pro audio, in one facility we use an AoIP (Audio over IP) system. The audio flies around the facility at 24/48 stereo (can also be 5.1), and communicates with other devices using "multi-cast" streams. Such streams need special handling at the switch, and so we only use managed Cisco switches with some specific programming. And one source can route to up to 36 destinations simultaneously in this particular facility. Lots-o-bits.
Does a Cisco switch make an audible difference? Absolutely! If you don't use one, you don't get much audio through anything. If you use one, set up correctly, it just works.
It's a real story, but I realize the home user won't bump into multicast all that much.
Does a Cisco switch make an audible difference? Absolutely! If you don't use one, you don't get much audio through anything. If you use one, set up correctly, it just works.
It's a real story, but I realize the home user won't bump into multicast all that much.
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