I have the Afterdark Trifecta. It performs very well but i did not compare it to other expensive ones.
We’re not dealing with food, the natural sciences or the limitations of medical science. We’re dealing with clock/clock signals and digital audio.
No, it does not prove the theory is wrong, in fact it doesn’t even hint the theory is wrong, let alone prove it! Firstly, everybody does not report hearing “a larger sound stage, increased depth a more dynamic sound”. I’ve used various external clocks almost every day for nearly 30 years and I’m not reporting any of these things. Furthermore, the vast majority of external clocks in use are in certain music studios and film/TV sound studios, tens of thousands of them and the vast majority do not report hearing these things.
Sure, the majority of the audiophiles do not use clocks. But these users are irrelevant to this topic.
Nothng new under the sun. People are not all blessed with superior hearing. We are a minority. I have only a few in my circle. Most of those that can't hear are happy with spectacular home theater setups or crappy one-box solutions. But some will still want to follow the audiophile crowd, and will have to rely on "science" because their ears are untrustworthy. So as a consequence, marketing was put in place to extract a max of money out of these audiophile wannabes.
I'm involved in production of soundtracks for four decades. I don't care which clocks are used in the studios. The studios are a place for sound production. My own audio system is for sound consumption at a high level of quality.
You are not “referring to those who use clocks” because the vast majority of those who use external clocks are professional engineers who do not report similar feedback and are not on this thread. Again, I am obviously on this thread and I have a great deal of experience using external clocks and I am not reporting similar feedback.
They don't know how to measure it. But conclusion is made and scientology infected individuals take it as a proof.
The sound engineers are not relevant for us. Their job is to produce sound. Our hobby is to consume it at a high level of quality that they don't have at their facilities.
The Majority of clock users are not audiophiles and they do not report what you are hearing.
It has little to do with superior hearing and a great deal to do with superior listening skills. If it were about superior hearing, that would rule out most audiophiles as they are generally older males with poorer hearing than children, teenagers and young adults. Fortunately, quite a few of my circle have superior listening skills because they’ve been formally trained and they have considerable professional experience.
And those with the best listening skills rely on those skills and the science.
You’re perfectly entitled to believe you can hear the inaudible and likewise I’m just as entitled to believe the demonstrated facts, the science established for over 130 years and the objective measurements/facts.
The Doppler effect, are you sitting in an armchair while listening to a sound system driving past you at 50mph? And, you can consider the analogy of a speaker, as long as you realise the imperfect inertia of a speaker is magnitudes greater.
If we don’t know how to measure it, how do you know it’s between 0.1 and 1% or indeed more typically <0.01%? Obviously we must be able to measure it, unless you’re saying someone just guesses these figures?
They don't use them for the same purpose.
Sure. And further: if we synchronise source and a receiver with the same clock. Low-freq noise dissappear. It is why we use external clocks.
