Fair comment. Although there are claims made that can be dismissed without much doubt. For instance, discussions (I've seen) about the difference in sound quality between an original PCM file and a lossless codec version of it - in that situation I don't think there's a swan to be found anywhere (of any colour) 🙂.
I'm not sure that being charitable and allowing for "well, could be" is useful when the truth is "no, it will be inaudible".
The title of this thread was keeping me uninterested for a while, but I decided to peek in, and I have to say, it has a great entertainment value for Saturday afternoon.
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I don't think anyone here said he alters the signal of his system by choosing certain cables.It is the "audiosmarts" who seem to know everything that claim this.I don't think my 70pf/m,18mohm/m interconnects alter the sound of my system in any way.Do you?
We were talking about electronics. You migth want to reread your post #12739
By the way, are you still working on the email you promised?
Tannoy was criticized many years ago for not putting their speakers in pretty enough boxes to be placed in one's living room amongst all their other beautiful furniture.
Tannoy's response to that was "We are in the business of building speakers not furniture.".
Tannoy's response to that was "We are in the business of building speakers not furniture.".
No need,I believe you 🙂My mistake.But since mentioned,do you think such interconnects can alter the sound of a system?
Which interconnects? Do they alter the signal significantly? If not, then no.
😀One already switched out his Nautilus 4 way system for one of those pianos that play by itself.🙂
True in a perfect world. 😉
Then why do different DAC ic's sound different?
I guess my first 'hi-fi' system were perfect then, I couldn't hear a difference between the TT and tape cassettes. 🙂
Maybe that's what "audiophools" do, the audiophiles I know try to preserve the original signal as much as possible and to get all instruments to sound as realistic as possible.
Pity about the many poor recordings we have to put up with. 😡
And in the real world of competently designed converters.
They don't - well not if they are competently designed and the test is a dbt.😉 In sighted tests they probably do seem different but we know why thats the case and its nothing to do with the engineering of the device. The need to believe (and to tweak) is strong, but for electronics (DACs, amps, cables etc) its often not necessary to tamper with levels of performance that is essentially better than human hearing can resolve.
Is competent perfect?There is always less competent and more competent.That's progress and the only one who has no right to stop progress is science.Both,in quality and knowledge.
True. Mainstream manufacturers (Yamaha etc) are reliably competent. High end, "tweako" manufacturers probably less so.
But it hurts more when you spent 50000 for an amp and find out that the design was not very competent. Especially when compared with something like the Emotiva amps.
Cool! Wires are dead - the case has been made, now lets move on to amps and ADC/DACs. Maybe we can change the world. Then when that's done maybe people will realize that the only thing that makes much of a difference at all are the speakers and the room. The rest is just minutia.
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