Quote:   I absolutely agree. In fact I would argue that if a DAC is working correctly you probably shouldn't be able to hear the difference between DACs at all. There wasn't a whole lot of logic behind my decision, I just thought that since I had spent so much on my car audio...

I wanted to use an mp3 player to go straight digital to my car cd player that has a coax digital input. During my research I saw a lot of interest on the head-fi forums for digital out from mp3 players so I thought I would share. The only dedicated mp3 players to come from the factory with...

I am running XP pro, primarily used for powered monitors and source for AKG701 run to amplifier. I have no plans to run surround, 2.1 is plenty. It would have to be for a standard PCI port. I mostly listen to music or movies, not much gaming. I'm happy to go to either side of $100 but that was...

Quote: I was a clinician of psychiatry by entire adult life. I wonder, would you be inclined to listen to the average electrical engineer make a call on someones mental well-being? What if the person in question was screaming at a lamp post like a maniac and otherwise seemed perfectly...

Okay, Patrick, say Bigshot does try your cables, everything would be perfect, right? So let's say Bigshot sets up a good ***, all the conditions are agreed upon, everyone is happy. He takes the test and doesn't hear any difference between the $15,000 cable and the cable he ripped from a lamp a...

Quote: no, i wasnt referring to placebo within that test. placebo is caused by a preconceived notion that since one cable has a reputable name, costs 20x more, and uses exotic materials then it will automatically sound better. within the test all the cables looked exactly the same but were...

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Quote: ... Scientist also may not be able to even hear the difference between a Stradivarius and a copy of a Strad or a violin bought on ebay for that matter. In my opinion that makes them (scientists and engineers) useless in the subject of sound. Music trancends 1's and O's. Those who...

Only movie that has ever really freaked me out was Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick was screwed up.

Quote: Driving it to loud volumes and driving it cleanly are two different things. So long as the amp is not clipping, what is the difference?

Quote: $50 on an already fairly pricey headphone can put them outside of the price range for some people... i.e. $299 to $349 can just be too much. Contrary to popular belief, people who love good sound are *not* uniformly wealthy, and some even have bills to pay . True enough, but...

Quote: Ceh?? My technical knowledge of balanced setups is far from perfect but my understanding is that all you are doing with respect to volume is increasing the voltage swing the amplifier can do if it needs to. (As well as twice as fast) Rob. Okay, I am probably going to get...

Balanced will make the music louder at the same volume setting as unbalanced.

Just read this about a new method of measuring sound, and thought it was kind of interesting. Maybe they'll incorporate it into the next iteration of APs?

Pssht, Clerks 2 will blow them all away.