Post by sailor on Jan 12, 2020 16:42:47 GMT -5
When I was beginning the journey into musical reproduction nirvana I quickly fell n the never ending trap of hearing big improvements with small changes to my system. Either a different brand of a coupling or bypass cap, or different wire, or in tube rolling. I still remember the great excitement when I first replaced that Radio Shack interconnect with my first DIY cable. I could not wait with great exclamation to tell everyone that I could get to listen at the amazing improvements to the sound coming out of my speakers with just the change of a piece of wire. Those days are gone. It could be hearing loss but I am not ready to blame that. I do hear the subtle differences between different cartridges, interconnects, and tube brands. I also hear all the differences in all the systems at the audio shows and feel good when others agree to which systems are musical and those that are not. Am I loosing interest in general? Not!.... I still love listening to my system either vinyl or digital. I am even going to have a cartridge redone by Peter Ledermann because I know what he does to cartridges. He has done three of mine so far. I am doing more show coverage for web magazines and need to keep a open mind to the industry, but I am still questioning it all.
Attached is and article from an English publication HiFi Choice. It tries to put forth the idea that this numbers race to increase the resolution of digital music is a bit of a fallacy. I tend to agree.
I am not finding Hi Res is really that much better sounding than your standard CD. Is that little bit of "air" really that important when one is listening. I always thought MQA was not worth extra costs.
On Dave Raden's vault of over 10 terabytes of music with resolutions from MP3 to the high DSD, I find it really does not matter to me. It's the music that matters.
I'm apologize I could not get a digital file of the article. HiFi Choice does not provide it unless you are a subscriber.
hiRes_Falacy.pdf (842.34 KB)
Attached is and article from an English publication HiFi Choice. It tries to put forth the idea that this numbers race to increase the resolution of digital music is a bit of a fallacy. I tend to agree.
I am not finding Hi Res is really that much better sounding than your standard CD. Is that little bit of "air" really that important when one is listening. I always thought MQA was not worth extra costs.
On Dave Raden's vault of over 10 terabytes of music with resolutions from MP3 to the high DSD, I find it really does not matter to me. It's the music that matters.
I'm apologize I could not get a digital file of the article. HiFi Choice does not provide it unless you are a subscriber.
hiRes_Falacy.pdf (842.34 KB)