But you are so ignoring the SYNERGY,   how else would SR survive if not for the SYNERGY?

For some people yes, for some people no.  They don't have that experience and until they do will assume manufactured goods are likely better than their own efforts.  One of those cases where either side you fall on you have some built in expectations for good things to happen. 

Well depends on the circumstances.  I personally keep everything lossless in my library.  I sometimes do hobbiest recordings, and will send those for the people I recorded to sample using MP3.  I can provide it to them via dropbox or similar download service lossless.  Even high bitrate VBR MP3...

Guess it depends on how you look at it.  MP3 while an older standard hasn't stood still.  It has been improved in the quality of encoding over the years.  It might not be the best and most efficient format available, but it lags by only a small amount.   For most people and most purposes...

Compression usually is expressed as a ratio.  2 to 1 compression means a signal that did have 60 db of dynamic range will then have 30 decibel of dynamic range.  Specifying what the dynamic range of music is for a given song is something that usually is fuzzy.    But how much compression is...

Data compression is taking a 44.1khz CD and turning it into an MP3.  The total bits of the CD is 1.411 mbps.  Data compression will throw away most of the bits using an algorithm which has a human hearing model.  The model will estimate which info we actually cannot hear whether it is there or...

From the article: Vinyl records are estimated to play at a whopping 1000 kbps. Music might not just have lost its revenue when it switched to digital; it may have lost its emotional power too.   Without knowing enough to mention that even more than vinyl, CD has 1411 kbps.  But then that...

Okay, that is a good start.  But you have to look deeper.   Random application allows sand particles to align themselves with all the various energy fields of the universe science doesn't yet understand.  Resulting in naturally occurring quantum level and beyond micro-computers.   One needs to...

You did understand his perfect sine wave as initially shown was completely analog from start to finish?  And you did see the spectrum analyzer shows a few very low level peaks of harmonic distortion while everything was fully analog.  And then did you notice when he inserted an AD/DA conversion...

Well the person who supplied the one in photos listened to it before doing so.  Presumably the person who is supplying the one being measured did so.  And no reason an ear test can't be done.    Now you asked what will the test show.  I expect they will test frequency response, distortion, and...

There is no capacitor on it.  So they must be using the normal parasitic capacitance for the result.  And yes, I can knock something for being exactly what it says it is in a patent if the result of that is nothing that makes it perform differently than a simple coax cable.  So you would feel...

Well, in the USA sometimes we value a hands off approach.  Caveat Emptor rather than having gov't interfere in our personal dealings.  I actually agree and would not wish for gov't oversight.  But again no lawyer, perhaps these things would be illegal under some circumstances.    As for...

Hey, I am no lawyer.  Seems wrong to me ethically.    Now if you want another WOW, just google Monster M2.2 speaker cable.  You can find dozens upon dozens of glowing reports of it by owners.  You will even find bits of it for sale second hand even this long afterwards for $200-350.    I did...

SilentFrequency, you mentioned you were looking at the Audio Critic Issue 25.  I just looked briefly and that is an astute choice.  It has several articles that might well be valuable to you understanding this in a very generalized way.   I also notice in the article by Tom Nousaine, he and...

Again I disagree largely here.  Just like SilentFrequency's reply try googling interconnect cable.  You get results all over the place and most are going to be how it is really different sounding.  How is someone new to this to separate wheat from the chaff as it was so well put?  You asking...