[time-nuts] Oh dear

[Raj]

I once did a test with a "audio expert" and compared a CD and a digital copy.
He confirmed that the copy was the original and when I showed him which was which
he still refused to believe.. I know a local guy who gold plated the PCBs for his home brewed amp!

Raj

At 07-05-2012, you wrote:
>These people are amazing.
>
>They refuse to do any kind of double-blind A/B testing.
>
>My favorite thing is that they are trying to extract the maximum "fidelity"
>from an album or CD that was recorded in a studio with little or no AC power
>conditioning, whose recording consoles were wired with the cheapest solid
>and stranded copper wire and whose monitor speakers were probably a pair of
>cheap Yamaha NS-10's (if you can make something sound good on an NS-10, it
>will sound good on anything).
>
>They claim to like the "warm" sound of their tube equipment but all they are
>doing is getting second-order distortion from running their tubes into a
>non-linear region. Tubes distort based on octaves and the distortion product
>is pleasant.  Transistors distort on odd-order harmonics --  3rds, 5ths,
>etc... And this sounds very clangerous.  FETs are even order and so are
>often used for audiophile power amplification.
>
>The phrase "Placebo Effect" was coined for a reason.
>
>Dave