Congrats, Rob on achieving a transformational change in SQ with 512,000 taps & progressing it further to 1M taps Loom forward to your further experiments in 2017 "That is the question I aim to answer with the Davina project - I will make 768 kHz recordings, decimate it down to 48 kHz, M scale...

Looking at DA/AD loopback tests on Gearslutz, the very best show something around -79dB correlation depth. If Diffmaker is to be believed this is really an abysmal figure & even if we weren't very sensitive to very small errors in the reconstruction process - this doesn't signify that the...

So is that prison English & not pidgin English or just jailhouse jive ? :p

Rob, can I ask your thoughts on the distortions in digital audio itself - I think you touched on it before when you mentioned the idea of brain burn-in i.e. that the brain has to accommodate to the new types of distortions that have been introduced as a result of digital audio? It seems to me...

That's a great question & one that many objectivists/measurists should take note of (Rob is not one of these - I'm talking about the usual armchair engineers) - the "belief" that measurements tell all there is to be heard is a very strong negative biasing factor (nocebo) & one bias that is not...

Great post on listening, Rob - wise words Totally agree with you that what happens in auditory processing is the fascinating part of all of this & where a large part of the friction exists between the measurement fanatics & the people who actually listen. It's interesting that we have frequency...

I don't want to rehash a thread from the sound science section but one possible explanation for differences in perceived sound are that there are differences in the noise at the receiving end of those cables. Where does the noise come from? From many sources - the first & foremost is the PC USB...

He wouldn't be a"reformed subjectivist" would he? What I have noticed is that a lot of the more "hardcore" objectivists claim that they were once "hardcore subjectivists" - ones that spent a lot of time & money chasing unrealistic goals with each latest faddish add-on but now are "saved"...

A good, sensible post, Jason - maybe it should also be made into a sticky in the sound science section, to sit alongside your measurements chapter sticky?

Very cool technology Thanks for posting

If you want to just deal with mathematics rather than the physical realisation of the maths then this paper from Stanley P. Lip****z and John Vanderkooy proves mathematically that 1-bit sigma-delta converters cannot be dithered 100% correctly because if done so they are in constant overload...

Maybe I can provide some papers but nowhere will there be any scientific paper which says that the McGurk effect applies outside of speech processing or "how we actually perceive sound all the time" "STUDIES OF THE MCGURK EFFECT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORIES OF SPEECH PERCEPTION" from Applied...

Sure, agreed. Do the K10's fall into this category? You mean why do I not accept this as unquestionably the reason why Krismusic perceives a more musical sound with the Onyko? Maybe, it's just that apart from statements you really haven't shown that there is any issue with the Noble K10s...

I'll ask again - please stop the personal attacks!!! The McGurk effect, like any illusion, is a good way to see inside some of the workings of the perception because, like all illusions, it exposes an anomaly & helps to understand where that anomaly comes from. As S&M said - it is a specific...

as you say, let's back up a bit. Where do I say that I don't accept impedance & drive issues have an audible effect - I believe I even explicitly said I agree but although it's a plausible explanation is it the correct one for this scenario? So far I haven't seen any thing presented that shows...

Good to see your sensible input again S&M I would add to your post that the Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula which is the necessary adjunct to Nyquist-shannon - it's the method to construct a continuous-time bandlimited function from a sequence of real numbers & gives us an analog...

Thank you S&M - exactly correct & what I've been saying all along.

It's not to do with accuracy - it's what do we not measure. As I said before time is the third & probably the most important aspect of how our auditory perception interprets the signals, not just frequency & amplitude. The time signature of tune if changed changes the tune even though the...

yes, we are only talking about stereo system & it's limitations do come into consideration in the "illusion" effect Indeed, preference & perception need careful differentiation. His reporting of "more musical" & "less thin" for the Onyko Vs the iPhones "flat & thin" to me isn't just preference...

I'm getting tired answering the same things over & over - first I thought we dealt with "reality" already? We are both in agreement about what perception is - it's an interpretation - we don't need to go back over this, do we? Sure there is a bigger picture to the understanding of auditory...

What you state makes perfect sense but can I just outline a couple of things: - Not just amplitude & frequency are important, time is a hugely important factor & one that has much larger importance to auditory perception. I mentioned this before - in silent movies the number of frames recorded...

That's reasonable but let me explain my position. The reason that we are all involved in this audio hobby is for the joy that it gives. We know that audio playback is an illusion & isn't a faithful capturing of the "real" live event (let's not talk about studio recreations as it only adds...

@Broko, in writing a reply post to Gregorio I realised where most of the friction might be coming from & I wanted to clarify something with you "Finally "magic" Vs "mysteries" I have never used the word "magic" but I do find auditory perception both fascinating & mysterious. I do understand...

Gregorio, We seem to be closer in understanding than either of us are willing to admit :) Can I restate a central point again "I'm suggesting the same understanding be applied to auditory perception - understanding the interpretation processes of this sense." If I have led anybody to believe...

Castle, we mostly agree but our interpretations/inferences are perhaps different I was thinking that classical recordings try to capture the collective sound as well as individual sections of the orchestra - is this incorrect? I'm not suggesting for one minute that our perceptions are accurate...