nick_charles
Headphoneus Supremus
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I think some specs are important and that some are rather less so, jitter for instance I feel to be an utterly unimportant spec since it is so low on all commercial kit anyway. If CD players had milliseconds of jitter the I would care more about the dfifferences.
Also specs are only useful at a certain level of granularity, for instance I would not make the choice between two CDPs based on one having a SNR of 100db and the other a SNR of 110db, differences at this level are utterly meaningless - even though this example represents a more than doubling of noise levels. Similarly I do not think FR beyond 20K is at all relevant in the real world, or dynamic range of greater than 96db neccessary in 99% of cases though I would like FRs to be flat to 20K.
But sometimes specs do tell us important things, like the fact that the Rega I used to own has speed variations of close to 1% , this is clearly going to impact on sustained tones.
Originally Posted by jsaliga /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think you, on the other hand, believe the specs are pretty much everything where SQ is concerned if I am any fair judge of your posts. I have never once seen you discuss the importance of mastering on SQ and where you think that might fit into the grand scheme of things, for example. But I have not read everything you have said on the subject. Feel free to elaborate if you wish. |
I think some specs are important and that some are rather less so, jitter for instance I feel to be an utterly unimportant spec since it is so low on all commercial kit anyway. If CD players had milliseconds of jitter the I would care more about the dfifferences.
Also specs are only useful at a certain level of granularity, for instance I would not make the choice between two CDPs based on one having a SNR of 100db and the other a SNR of 110db, differences at this level are utterly meaningless - even though this example represents a more than doubling of noise levels. Similarly I do not think FR beyond 20K is at all relevant in the real world, or dynamic range of greater than 96db neccessary in 99% of cases though I would like FRs to be flat to 20K.
But sometimes specs do tell us important things, like the fact that the Rega I used to own has speed variations of close to 1% , this is clearly going to impact on sustained tones.