You're right. Let me rephrase: a theory that has not yet been disproven.

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I hope those are not illogical personal attacks

Thank you to all readers; I would like to expand on points #2 and #3 for the benefit of the community. The reason I am against digital filters is that I believe once the signal has been sampled, and therefore transformed to discrete time, further manipulations can only hurt signal integrity and...

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Maybe we can read it together, father.

Thank you; however, that's not what I'm doing. My technique is simply to propose a theory that can't be disproven. That is the definition of scientific truth.

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jcx: While I can't say I appreciate the cynicism and utter lack of evidence in your post, I do appreciate your attempt to discredit my ideas. Hi-fi audio does require static linearity, and "perceptible distortion" is not a valid criterion for judging the fidelity of an audio signal.   -...

ubecko,   I applaud your attempt to understand what's going on; keep up the good work. Your new friend at Head-fi, m3_arun

  I hold a BSEE from UCLA. You can make fun of my degree all you want.   Your claims about hearing processes are not relevant to creating a hi-fi signal chain. Whether we can hear non-linearities in the system is irrelevant to the fact that they are there; if digital audio was based on the...

No, actually, you can't.

Hello Head-fi; I'm back. This time to advance my views on phase linearity in the audio signal chain.   1. Only planar transducers (or phase-linear transducers) should be used in audio 2. Digital filters are completely unnecessary and counterproductive to hi-fi reproduction 3. The maximum...

I want to pre-empt some of the responses that have yet to be posted; and this will NOT be my last post on the topic.   Delta-sigma manufacturers have used various statistical linearity measurements to cover up the lack of resolution of the converters. There is no substitute for static...

Jokes aside, after doing some more independent research, I've realized that the parameter I am looking for is called "static linearity." I predict that the static linearity test will show the R2R coming out on top. Thanks to all for playing along for so long.