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It was very easy to get the levels the same on the somewhat gimmicky AV receiver I was using at the time for my simple 'blind' test.

I read recently that if you are listening to a pair of speakers...

A reasonable sized room, which the equipment to be compared, plus the person to be doing it, down on his hands and knees if necessary, plugging and unplugging the equipment, all behind a simple...

But the words 'blind test' are like a red rag to a bull for some people. So, as I did further down the thread, I limit my comments about them to circumstances (only 'you alone', whoever 'you' might...

'sufficient number of listeners'.

In my opinion, comparative testing, blind or otherwise, is only of use when it is *you* alone doing the comparison. If you can't tell the difference, buy the...

You can't do it with measurements. But it is faur to say that if something measures truly badly it might be an indication (only) that it might not be much good.

And there is a lot of low priced...

You are so right!

That is what it is supposed to mean. But the 'high price' merchants have deliberately diverted it.

There is much fairly low cost good stuff around that sounds every bit as...

We have to play 'Cowboys and Native Americans' now :)

They are not, of course. They came from Mongolia or thereabouts. They are no more 'native' than someone who came from Europe.

Nothing. A good async DAC totally removes the 'responsibility' for jitter from the computer. So what goes on in the computer and the software player is no longer of any importance. All this computer...

My "Right up the last paragraph I was with you" etc. was directed at Teresa, not you. However, that does not matter. Personally I agree with some things any given person might say, and disagree with...

Leaving some cables aside, it is not snake oil. Most equipment is very good indeed. But some of the prices are crazy, given that the general cost of 'consumer electronics' (which our stuff actually...

In a case rather like a Mac mini. With at least 8Gb of SSD RAM for the operating system etc, which I will also partition for the player and 'odds and ends' and a hard disk of 500Gb or more.

Some...

@Julf

Did you ever do 'constant aspect' on landing approach when you were learning? I never did, even though I was taught by the CFI of the the UK equivalent of the US 'Top Gun' school. He hadn't...

Airplane wing.

"Who keeps them up". Was an article I read. Newton or Bernoulli? There are lots of discussions about that too. Newton's got to be right and Bernoulli wrong, or they could not fly...

Noy my favourite choice of places either.

But there will be one occasion when I won't mind it at all.

Yet another word that is bandied about without knowing what it means.

Rhetoric is talking to persuade someone.

And was going to put that in my post, but decided not to, as my point was that I feel and, (except for my comments about blind tests) it is only my opinion, same as everything else, that people not...

What I said about the 'laws' of science was stolen directly from Pirsig.

"existed all along". He said that too. Though he has his doubts about before the big bang.

I always pay close attention...

Right up to the last paragraph I was with you. I believed what you say you heard, that your friend heard, and so on, though I have not noticed these effects myself. I also agreed with where you are...

So according to yesterdays 'laws' of science (which are different today and will be different again tomorrow) it does not exist.

But the laws of science have no mass and carry no charge. So they...

All the recorded music in the world, each piece at the highest resolution available, pre-loaded. With fully automatic monthly updates.

It would cost more, but one would get a huge discount because...

Quite. More and more common everywhere. No great men like Magellan or Isambard Kingdom Brunel now either. Nor fitting every house in a city of 300,000 people with a telephone in one weekend,...

I read it several times and still don't understand it all.

Rather like 'Moby Dick'. Someone once said about that "I fought it thrice". It too is a philosophy book, or an allergy or whatever.

I only put that in because a lot of people seem to think at only a 'romantic' or an 'artist' could write such stuff :)

PS: this 'dichotomy' only appeared a couple of hundred years ago. It never...

Those who worry about this should read Pirsig's book, 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'. It has already been mentioned here. I read it when it first came out (1974 or thereabouts) and have...

In a thread some weeks ago.

Just use a VPN IP address, from a US supplier That is not in any way illegal. And you will pay HD Tracks (PayPal is convenient for this), so neither they nor the artist...