Everything sounds the same

[pkane2001]

18 minutes ago, fas42 said:

 

What you don't like is the way I do it - I fail, by not saying "Buy a superb, really expensive speaker!" ...

 

And you're not prepared to evaluate where your rig may be less than perfect, by carefully listening to it ... "I'm comfortable with my share of rattles and squeaks, yessiree!!".

 

It’s not that I don’t like it, Frank. I just don’t believe it has a chance of ever working.

[pkane2001]

9 minutes ago, fas42 said:

You see, I didn't know it had a chance of ever working ... the first time. But it did, and everything since has constantly confirmed the behaviour, and allowed me to steadily build up a database of understanding about "what to worry about" - once you know something works, that knowledge tends to hang around, a bit .

 

You are a Harry Potter of audio, Frank. Your magic is strong. But I’m with George, it’s time to stop the nonsense. It’s been fun.

[pkane2001]

24 minutes ago, lmitche said:

The simple point here is that digital signals are carried over an analog infrastructure and that whatever makes an analog infrastructure great for reproduction from analog sources also makes it great for reproduction from digital sources.

 

Except for maybe some quantum states of elementary particles, there is nothing digital in this universe that isn't carried or represented by some analog signal. That's how it's been designed, that's how it works, there's nothing new here.

 

And it's mostly wrong-headed that what makes analog devices sound great will also help digital. These are completely different types of signals, used for different purpose, processed differently, running at different frequencies with a completely different result when subjected to the same set of distortions.