mdalton
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| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @jc4659 carrera 4s is my dream car. I call my chipped Golf R the poor man’s Porsche. After I chipped it, it increased hp from 256 to 311. The S4 is my wife’s (yes, I know, I married the perfect woman); anyway, since it got my car close to the... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @audphile1 It is absolutely not personal, but my apology stands. The irony is that my system reflects a complete lack of dogma, including with respect to measurements. I do tubes and vinyl for goodness sakes! I know that the amp in my big rig... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! btw, that apology is to all members. | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @jji666 Thanks for your comments. On your last point, I would like to apologize for my tone. I did mean to mock an idea, not a person, but I can see how it came off the same way; I’m sorry. And hobestly, I did mean to be click-baitey, but may... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! so i used the car example to try to take some of the audiophile mysticism out of the equation. (Another common example is that most people have very different responses to a man with a deep voice saying something, vs. a woman -or man - with a hig... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! As I said, anybody who thinks they’re immune is in denial. Other thoughts? | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! But seriously, it’s stuff like this that make all of us the deserving objects of ridicule from our non- audiophile friends. I’m convinced that confirmation bias is the dirty little secret in all our lives that we need to acknowledge before we can... | |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes!! @audphile1 gosh, a lot of anger there. I actually didn’t remember who said it; didn’t really matter, as it’s just a metaphor for what I see as a broader problem with the hobby. are you saying you want to invest in my company? | |
| Old phones as streaming sources ok, i’ll go! regarding reference music, I don’t know, I think live music and my system at home are very different. For example, my most recent live music experiences, both very recent, were Blues Alley (very small) and Kennedy Center (much bigge... | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? @benanders +1 It’s like getting invited to what you think is a dinner party, and it turns out to be a lecture; no conversation, no food, no booze. No fun! | |
| Roon Endpoint Streamers - Direct Comparisons between Current Offerings? As I understand it, your streamer uses a Pi; not sure how Mesttum implements the Pi, but in its freestanding form, the pi has been measured as having more noise than a few other relatively inexpensive alternatives, such as the iFi Zen, the Volumio... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @lanx0003 Oh, no, the E70 I have is the one with the ESS 9028pro chip; I spent the huge sum of $349 on it! The $600 was a reference to my Pro-Ject Stream Box S2 Ultra; it normally sells for $899; I misspoke, as I got it open box for $699, not $... | |
| Old phones as streaming sources @lanx0003 btw, we ran the okto unbalanced - it’s really designed for balanced, so we sacrificed a few db of its very high SNR in the test. I use Cardas converters, which are really well made, but still…. | |
| Old phones as streaming sources agree re our convos. have enjoyed your persoective. re okto, I like it a lot. it’s in a really nice, “budget” system I put together that is not set up for critical listening due to room constraints, even so it sounds very, very good. I did a ... | |
| Do you trust your ears more than measurements? no, no, no! my apologies. I know English is not your first language, so that was a little cryptic (unclear) on my part. The joke was really an homage to your ability not to get fooled by bias. It’s a wonderful, powerful strength. |