@deludedaudiophile
"I am an innate skeptic, but my experience and others demonstrated knowledge leads me to believe those who can demonstrate real expertise as opposed to those who claim it by virtue of simply using something."
Me too, although my background in physics amounts only to a fluked O level (one of the papers was a multiple choice).
A few years back, to cut a long story short, I needed to solder in a tiny capacitor, were talking 2/3 mm, on the back of my CD player’s circuit board to allow it to play CDRs.
A rather unsuccessful attempt which resulted in 3 outcomes, none of which resembed what I was looking for.
a) I almost wrecked the circuit board
b) I almost burned a hole in my jeans due to the frustration of repeated failure.
c) The iron slipped and almost burned the soldering iron’s cable.
A friend suggested I try this family owned electronics store in town, and without any other option, other than to admit abject failure, I decided to give it a go.
The owner took the drive off me and disappeared. I could smell the sound of something burning as I waited a little nervously. In less than 2 minutes he returned with the capacitor safely soldered in place.
From that moment on it became patently clear that, no matter what I might like to imagine, there are people out there whose skills exceed mine by far.
Anyway, do DACs all sound the same, does Bluetooth 5.1 sound any better than Bluetooth 5.0 or even 4.2?
When it comes to audio and all of its myriad facets (imagery, bandwidth, dynamics, distortion, transients, coherence, timbre etc) can we ever sort out evidence from opinion?
Questions, questions...too many questions.
On second thoughts, just give me some meaningful data.
