What is your Placebo?

[redshifter]

jahn i remember reading here ages ago a theory that later at night the electric grid has less noise, and high end sound systems sound better as a result. i don't know of anyone who really tested this.

 

[cerbie]

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Originally Posted by redshifter /img/forum/go_quote.gif - setting foobar to resample to 96k sounds better (although i know my digital music probably doesn't reach those really high frequencies)

Actually, chances are this is not placebo. Resampling is not perfect. Here and elsewhere you should be able to find discussions about the PPHS and SRC resamplers (SRC at lower qualities especially). You could actually be liking the alterations caused by the resampler. Sort of like loving the tube sound, even knowing it's not a proper reproduction compared to pure SS.

 

[redshifter]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cerbie /img/forum/go_quote.gif Actually, chances are this is not placebo. Resampling is not perfect. Here and elsewhere you should be able to find discussions about the PPHS and SRC resamplers (SRC at lower qualities especially). You could actually be liking the alterations caused by the resampler. Sort of like loving the tube sound, even knowing it's not a proper reproduction compared to pure SS.

my taste is for treble rich sound, and it really sounds like i'm hearing more upper frequencies, details, more sparkle, etc. your explaination makes a great deal of sense too. does foobar's resamplers interpolate data into the signal?

 

[cerbie]

Here's what I could find on it here with a quick search:
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showth...=212337&page=2
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202788

Not a lot, but it gets the idea across. The upsampled signal, especially if not upsampling by an integer, is not just a smoother version of the input. TBH, though, I personally can't tell a difference unless the hardware is as bad as an SBLive! through Audigy2.

 

[redshifter]

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Originally Posted by cerbie /img/forum/go_quote.gif Here's what I could find on it here with a quick search: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showth...=212337&page=2 http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202788 Not a lot, but it gets the idea across. The upsampled signal, especially if not upsampling by an integer, is not just a smoother version of the input. TBH, though, I personally can't tell a difference unless the hardware is as bad as an SBLive! through Audigy2.

ok, so the higher resampling puts less load so to speak on the post dac analog filter, allowing it to be less complex or conversly better quality at a lower price?

 

[VicAjax]

definitely pot.



oh, did i say that out loud?

 

[a shovel]

upsampling to 768khz. pretty cables. after reading nice comments on my gear everything sounds better, and vice versa.

 

[nabwong]

Wood sounds better than metal, plastic or anything else. They do!

 

[GlendaleViper]

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Originally Posted by nabwong /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wood sounds better than metal, plastic or anything else. They do!

I didn't even think of that. That is something that I'd probably still believe (out of sheer lust) even if it were completely debunked. There's just something about a piece of electronics housed in mother nature that plays to my Steampunk aesthetic and which I can't deny.

 

[Mrvile]

Oh one more...brighter cans are bad for my hearing (though this may be true, I don't know).

 

[HearMe]

If I listen at low levels it sounds as good as the level I would like to play it at...

 

[Born2bwire]

Chicken Blood.






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