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  1. Synergistic talks about how their cables were "Quantum Tunneled". If you accept that BS, you should be robbed by throwing out your money by buying their products.
  2. There's considerable systems overhead, buffering, interrupt handling, moving data from kernel to user space, that is the same for each block of data regardless of it being an ssd or a standard hard drive. Since most audio files are sequential, the internal buffering in hard drives makes the elapsed time diffence for io much smaller than you imagine.
  3. This is simple, the market says they all sound the same. The high end DAC market has about a dozen players, none of them with dominant market share. If one of them had a truly superior product, they would quickly start gaining market share, use those increased volumes to both increase margins and lower prices triggering a virtuous circle resulting in them becoming the dominant player. That hasn't happened because they all sound the same.
  4. 20 employees, 200,000 pair (400,000 speakers). They were founded in 1997. That's 1,000 per employee per year. 260 some odd working days a year, that's 4 hours per unit? Are you joking?
  5. I'll bet you anything that Lenovo's gross margins are a fraction of that BADA. There's no excuse to leave your customers high and dry for a month.
  6. They both list the address and phone number of their retail store in Paris, which is the customer point of contact, they also point to their US distributor, who has a phone number.
  7. Berkeley sells a premium product, why should you accept mediocre support? You received a response because you complained on CA. What about the vast majority of customers who don't know about CA and have a problem during their month's vacation? If you couldn't get support from your phone or cable company for a month, you'd scream bloody murder. How many of you would calmly accept the idea that your car dealer shut his repair department for a month?
  8. The person switching the source was the person listening. That doesn't pass the smell test for anyone who wants reliable, reproducible, verifiable results.
  9. IBM, Lenovo, EMC, HP, every cell phone carrier. Shall I continue? I noticed they responded, seemingly because of the mentions on this board. It shouldn't take a public shaming to get them to respond.
  10. World call companies maintain customer support 24x7 every day. They don't shut down for weeks at a time.
  11. 90% would be significant if there were more samples, not 10, but getting 90 right out of 100 and if you're not the one switching the samples and claiming you didn't peek.
  12. The CPU overhead for decompressing FLAC is vanishingly small. Lossless FLAC is about half the size of uncompressed. That means any decompression overhead is offset by the fact the IO processing overhead, interrupt overhead, and all the nonsense of getting data from kernel space to user space is half that of uncompressed. The flac boys did benchmarking some time ago on processors that are less than 10% of what modern processors can do. Do the math yourself. As for spending time testing alleged audible differences, this is what physicists derisively call not even wrong. http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison__prokofiev_pcon3_3.html This isn't complicated. You believe there's a difference and therefore you hear one.
  13. The justification for his 100% markup is the support and service he claims to provice. Time for him to earn his keep.
  14. I have no doubt that the people claiming to hear differences hear thos differences. They aren't lying, they are simply demonstrating the reason that science had to reject personal self reported anecdote in order to advance. Show me a controlled double blind test.
  15. Talk about all boots and no cattle. You bring up a challenge to others you're not willing to give yourself.
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