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RE: Waste of Time

Hi Inmate!

I can definitely see some truth in what you said. But unless extensive tests are done, we'll never know who's right or wrong will we? It's quite possible one of those armchair "audio experts" you spoke of, might have actually developed a "belief" that's correct!

I recently had an a new audio friend that I met at one of our local Audio Society meeting over to listen to my audio system, a Mastersound Reference 845, Integrated amp, YBA Genesis CD4 CDP and Beauhorn Virtuoso speakers. As we spoke between recordings he asked why I had 3 different pairs of ICs, 4 different pairs of speaker-wires and 3 different digital wires. I replied that whenever I make a change in my system by replacing say one CDP with a different CDP or if add a new audio component, like the Musical Paradise MP-D2 DAC I'm looking at, then I try all these wires over again. So that I can see which one sounds best with the new system configuration!

He laughed a little and said to me "You really believe those different ICs, speaker-wires or digital wires sound noticeably different? I told him I know they sound different and I'll show you they do. After replacing the ICs we were using with a different pair, I noticed a look on his face that revealed to me he heard, not just a difference, but a very noticeable difference in their sonics! Which is exactly what he said as soon as the song stopped. His problem was created before coming to my home. He had tried different ICs on his system, but, didn't hear a significant difference and came to the immediate conclusion that 1) wires all sound the same and 2) those who say differently are just fooling themselves. That's NOT what he believes today.

Inmate, my friend, if there's any "problem" with audiophiles/music lovers, it's that they often form staunch opinions based on too little knowledge, experience, or trials. We all only know what we know about audio based from what we've heard. Then we form opinions based on the knowledge we have or we create a post on some audio forum based from that same audio knowledge. While the reality is that those opinions we've formed could actually change based on the very next audio system we listen to...


I'm listening to: Across The Rubicon by Silhouette




Thetubeguy1954 (Tom)

Central Florida Audio Society -- SETriodes Group -- Space Coast Audio Society
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