On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:37 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't really comment on 'subjective' descriptions. Since you > are quite emotionally involved, and this is not a blind test, > chances are 99.99% that 'it's all in your head'. It can be surprising how often this is the case -- differences that you can describe, articulate, and explain in normal listening can surprisingly often turn out not to be distinguishable at all under proper test conditions. Embarrassingly so, sometimes. You should try to set it up (Niels), not so much because I think you're wrong in this case as because you seem open to testing things properly and this adds a rather compelling dimension. > Or you prefer > lower quality sound :-) Smiley apart, this is also not entirely unreasonable. Every time I listen to a vinyl record I think how enjoyable lower-quality sound[*] can be. Didn't some recent study show that kids these days prefer mp3s to raw audio? Back in the day I used to like the squishy sound of tape cassettes, and they still have a certain something -- particularly for bigly-produced 80s metal. Mmm. *digs out old Scorpions tapes* Chris [*] if you find anyone who still believes vinyl is higher fidelity, try recording their favourite record to a digital file with a decent soundcard at a sensible sample rate and bit depth -- it should be completely indistinguishable from the original record. I've tried this and convinced myself at least. Doesn't stop me from playing and loving records, though! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
