How I tamed digital glare.

geoffkait

“Perfect Sound Forever.” Apparently there are quite a few people who swallowed the marketing slogan ...

It's actually worse than that. They not only believe and embrace the slogan, but they have built a whole belief system using the slogan as the foundation. Any information that conflicts with the slogan is dismissed with the wave of a hand, or with an insult - as demonstrated by some of the deleted posts in this thread.

It's unfortunate, because it could be useful to have conversations about this is certain threads, such as this one. But there are ideologues here, so it seems it never ends well.

Talk about projection. No one is doing what you accuse them of. No one said "perfect sound forever." 

The only embracing done is by those who dislike an opposing view. The premises drawn are just a straw man argument meant to deflect by attributing views and stands that no one proffered.

My CDP may make a mistake, or miss step, now and again but is it big enough to hear? Does it detract from the enjoyment. No, to both questions. 

Now, compare that to computer audio where there's so much networking involved and any small change in software and/or hardware can and will elicit an equally large change, for better or worse, in the resultant sound. There's still lots to work out and it's evident by the reviews and anecdotal evidence of those who've tried out better transports and came away with the opinion that's it's just as good, or better, than lots of the high end, expensive computer rigs out there.

This hobby is based on subjective listening and evaluation and to unequivocally state that one can't or shouldn't hear what they're hearing is just, plain, silly.

All the best,
Nonoise

@high-amp
I only use a single one. All of my gears are connected to a single line through a ZeroSurge 10 outlet plus a six outlet power cord. The Defender is in the six outlet extension. I tried to add an AC ipurifier but returned it as it didn’t add anything to the equation. I guess you can try multiple and remove one at a time to see if you lose any benefit. Nothing to lose as you can always return them.

Geof....nope ...just that you need a good one. 

I've been dealing with "Digital Glare" since 1985 and tried Green Markers, Disc Mats, Armor All you name it. I have owned more Disc players and DAC than I can or want to remember.  The following is what's worked the best for Me: Ripping all my Disc to a computer and using iTunes and it's digital Equalizer, then into a DAC.  2nd and near as good as the eq is my Esoteric DV-50 with it's up sampling and filter features.  That said, some folks get there shorts knotted just thinking about Eq's, I used too but a wise old Man told me, It's your music listen to it any darn way you want, you paid for it.