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I agree this is extremely helpful. All of Purrin's observations support my understanding (or current theory, since it is not accepted by anyone apart from me at the moment) of how 'information' about music is transmitted to our auditory system and how this is affected by different formats and the various limitations of different approaches to DAC design. My thinking is summarized in an earlier post here.
http://www.head-fi.org/t/693798/thoughts-on-a-bunch-of-dacs-and-why-i-hate-chocolate-ice-cream/2025#post_11136795
I am glad that someone, who has clearly developed the necessary skills of highly trained hearing...............................................
I have spent many months thinking about this; it is an enormously complex subject; it is not fully understood by any of the people working at the real sharp end of DAC design; the information that is available online is riddled with misunderstandings, bad Maths, incorrect assumptions, and half understood techniques. The terminology and measurements used date from a different era, and a different domain (analogue).
Oh my goodness.
With respect, you are not trying to say that you know more about this subject than someone who has actually designed a DAC, are you?
It is one thing to study and read about DACs, it is quite another thing to actually design a DAC.
Er no, I don't think that I said that did I? If I implied it then I certainly didn't intend to.
All I said was that I have a far better understanding than I did 6 months ago and it has taken a great deal of time and effort to get there because of the factors I listed. I have also identified several widely held misconceptions.
It is very likely that the couple of dozen or so people in the world who do this for a living know everything that I do, and a lot more besides, but they don't write it down in blogs like this. And as far as I am aware none of them have stuck their heads above the parapet to correct the '24-bits makes no difference' argument because it is a good argument (I was convinced by it for several months) and hard to explain why it is wrong to a non Mathematician. It is easier just to wait for the people who care to use their own ears, because the vast majority of people don't care.