buffalobill

Comical. Spend a lot of money on a speaker with conventional ordinary direct radiating mid-range cone which will spray frequencies all around walls, floor, ceiling and then install acoustics to absorb the resulting distorted frequencies. The distorted frequencies are still there and dynamics are now reduced.

Impressive audio gear, no doubt. But there are more people who visit my local Apple store in one hour than usually attend one of these McIntosh events.

I have also found the integration between Sonos and Apple Music easy and convenient. However, I now have three possible libraries to maintain which I don't find easy and convenient. I don't want to have playlist listings in iTunes, Apple Music, and Sonos.

Apple Music Sonos controller only available on iPhone/iPad.

I agree, I now see the link between tattoos and quality audio products.

One could end up in the the crazy house trying to keep up with and make any sense of the proliferation and far-out philosophical articles that Paul McGowan writes. Linking DSD and tattoos is a good example of why you can't take McGowan serious.

As a consumer, I can' ignore all the consistent articles written by audio engineers at McIntosh, Bryston, Ayre, Benchmark, Berkeley, Daniel Hertz, Dan Lavry, and several others that PCM is better than DSD. Unless one's hearing is impaired the notion that some audiophile bloggers can hear things other audiophiles can't hear is just self-serving and total baloney.

Marantz or McIntosh? Timex or Rolex? Chevy or Lexus? Duh.

Thanks for providing. Consistent with previous articles. I want the best sound from my audio system so I am staying with 16/44.1 (PCM).

Interesting discussion but as an consumer audiophile I have no control over the mastering process, regardless of the various definitions of "is". If I want to listen to my favorite artists I have to buy what they produce. I always learn from Barry's comments but this seems to be an issue best debated within the industry.

Paul, I love to look at beautiful women but don't ask me to describe one. However, they are going to look the same whether or not I can describe them or not. PCM or DSD? If they are engineered correctly and the same binary content is there they are going to same the same.

Agree, it is the same sound whether I like it or not. Perception doesn't change the sound, however. The musical content is either there or it isn't. If someone's hearing is normal he is going to hear the same sound as anyone else, although he may not prefer it.

That is because you have a medical adversity, just like I said in my post. But just because you can't see without your glasses doesn't mean an object isn't there. By contrast, just because someone doesn't need glasses to see doesn't enable them to see something that isn't there. In audio, 'talking heads' generally claim to hear something that isn't there.

Over the years I have never understood statements like this. It is as if mankind development of ears has resulted in different hearing capacities (not withstanding adverse medical conditions). The sound coming from an audio system is the same regardless of who is listening to it. It is either there are it isn't there.

He sells a 16/44.1 for $15, a 24/192 for $45. I wonder which one he is going to support?