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RE: "The audiophile myth "everything matters" is simply not true except as a self-defeating prophecy." Huh?

"Could you explain briefly what that means in the context of a conventional analog audio system?"

Not possible. In a conventional analog system just about every thing does matter.

The whole point of going to digital transmission and storage was that it ends this situation. It is no longer the case that everything does matter. Small scratches on a CD don't matter. Ethernet cables at a distant server farm distributing downloads don't matter. Other things such as digital transports and cables may continue to matter, but that's not logically necessary as it is with analog. It may be necessary in practice because of deficient digital to analog converters.

If the customers for high end DACs don't understand this principle they will waste their money on fancy transports and digital cables rather than demanding that DAC designers produce products that work properly.





Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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