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| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste rollintubes63 posts06-28-2019 11:20am@clearthink@wynpalmer4 is simply explaining in technical terms that most trained people use, but will be foreign to the lay person.Technical jargon can also be useful in obscuring the issues. It’s also an Appea... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste ypingMy Cd’s generally sound great (as do my friends CD systems) not unnatural, bleached, tinny, bloated, congealed, two dimensional, and dull. I enjoy very much listening to CD’s.>>>I’m happy to hear that but mostly because I predicted m... | |
| What’s your vote for the most ridiculous, overpriced, and useless tweak? Geoffkait is not dead. No need for alarm. When I’m not here, gentle readers, I spend much of my time in the future. Not necessarily your future, but my future. The reason I come back here to post is because they don’t have audio forums in the futu... | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? This just in!Taken from the XLO Test CD information regarding track 9, the system burn-in tack,”Most loudspeakers require SUBSTANTIAL burn-in time (as much as 200 hours) before achieving full performance.”Yes, I know what you’re thinking, “But the... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste wynpalmer44Again, the fact that the input sequence is not perfectly timed is not relevant providing the data recovery circuitry/algorithms are able to cope with the imperfections. The use of data corrections (CRCs etc) can ensure bit perfect outpu... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste I almost forgot! The same 1s and 0s argument is frequently used in similar debates regarding HDMI cables, both generally speaking and in particular why control of directionality for HDMI cables is important, as Audioquest will attest. Hey! That rh... | |
| Perception As fate would have it the REPEAT button is often mistaken for the REFRESH button. ®️Has it really been more than than 20 years ago the intrepid reviewer for Stereophile magazine, Shannon Dickson, opined after his coverage of CES, “most exhibitors ... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste “There’s plenty of room for the introduction of timing errors/jitter in that process even if the result is ultimately bit perfect.“Ideally the DAC will retime the input data to restore a pristine, low jitter, bit perfect, data sequence for convers... | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? That’s actually a very unconvincing argument. To whit,”Notice from the graph below, that the 2 curves are ever so slightly offset. You could argue there is a difference, but it’s negligible, most certainly unnoticeable in the real world. However, ... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste Actually it’s the same argument. The CD argument is that digital data encoded on the CD cannot be changed and that laser servo mechanism + error correction together ensure that the 1s and 0s maintain their integrity all the way to the DAC. It’s ca... | |
| Blind fold hearing test There are several perfectly valid reasons why some people don’t hear differences between amps or between anything. A Blind test result that has negative results actually does not mean much. Now, if there is a pattern of many independent negative r... | |
| Speaker Break In...? Or listener “Break In”? Gosh, do you think maybe the changes are inaudible because the people listening are hearing challenged? Or because they’re so busy making changes any changes that do occur are hidden in the noise? Hel-loo! Physically measured? By who? Nobody ever ... | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work erik_squiresI love that the OP has orphaned this thread, but people are still arguing about how CD’s work. :D :D :D Yeah, I’m starting to think it might have been a drive by. 😬 | |
| Theoretical question about how CD's work almargIMO the reason many of the tweaks mentioned above by Geoff may be beneficial in some situations has nothing whatsoever to do with bit errors or error correction.The main reason in most cases is likely to be related to electrical noise genera... | |
| The Absolute Sound "review" of USB cable reads suspiciously like a press releaste Hey, look here, another 1s and 0s argument! 🤗 We got our own 1s and 0s argument going over on the CD thread right now. “Theoretical question about how CDs work.” Experts urgently needed to straighten us out! The 1s and 0s argument is used to prove... |