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In Reply to: RE: FWIW, - I agree and you are right on. posted by AbeCollins on September 16, 2015 at 04:41:21:
Yeah,.....
I said us much in my post. Nothing wrong at all with using an IPOD, especially if you're comparing it with another source, that shows off your gear. In the aforementioned case, people were not walking away wow'd. The point is context.
At that time, digital file playback wasn't so prevalent.
And although the Wadia dock/DAC was pretty OK: Wilson wasn't using one. And certainly, throwing in a high end CD player to compare would've really given their audience a more realistic impression of their gear.
Outside the scope of my post, everyone is using digital file playback these past few years at shows. It certainly is getting better, still lots of bad sound, but then, there are many reasons for bad sound at a show, not just the source. Hopefully, that aspect will also come under some comparitive scrutiny before loading the van. Just two years ago the Salk speaker room was using reel-to-reel tape: this can also send great, but in their case, - not.
From a system perspective, no one is ever going to actually use an IPOD with $100K speakers. But, they may be impressed with a speaker's flexibility.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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