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I finally made it to CAS on the last day. It is only my third show I've ever been to over the years, but it is interesting how times have changed.
1. Audio Visions of San Francisco seems to have every headphone amplifier made ready for audition. Not even close, but they have a lot.
2. I must say, all the systems sounded VERY SIMILAR. Is this a good sign or is my hearing really going on me??
3. I brought CDs to play, but everyone was doing computer audio!
That about sums it up for me.
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1. He didn't have Senn HD-800 for me to compare with the HiFi Man and Audeze models though.
2. Yes.
3. Played CD's in a couple rooms. Also noticed less Vinyl being played in rooms. :-(
Enjoyed hearing the big Tannoy Westminster's being played even if the room was there just to sell cables and tweaks.
"2. I must say, all the systems sounded VERY SIMILAR. Is this a good sign or is my hearing really going on me??
"3. I brought CDs to play, but everyone was doing computer audio!"
These two items are related IMO.....
There was a very recent discussion on Digital Drive regarding which Beatles releases sounded best. A friend was at my place, and I demonstrated the various releases of the same song, which I just ripped to hard drive on my computer. (The files were uncompressed WAV.) He told me, "I think I hear a difference, but I'll take your word for it." (He's not an audiophile.) I realized the differences seemed a lot more dramatic playing the CDs on the audio systems, I then fired up the high-efficiency system ("100 dB Club" in Inmate Systems). When I did the demo with the CDs, he noticed the differences immediately. "They now sound like totally different recordings." ....
It was just an anecdotal event, maybe my computer system isn't the greatest. But over the years, I've found that differences in recordings played via a computer seemed less obvious to me than what I've heard from a good CD player based system.
Is that your conclusion? If so, you're not alone.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
CD's sounds their best on a CD player , no storage medium i have ever heard trumps them on CD's.
Compact Disks are a storage medium.
(Lol @ the ridiculous things people come up with.)
The disk doesn't make any sounds, the DA converter does.
Infamous sockpuppet
I'm NOT blaming computer audio: Even the turntables didn't sound much different to me.That is sort of a good outcome IMO.
Edits: 08/17/15
The more things change, the more they sound the same it seems.
Infamous sockpuppet
would choose to demo said $100,000 system using music stored on a laptop. NOT!
Not a laptop..... But maybe a "music server"......
I know someone in Scottsdale who has a system North of 30 grand that's server (and vinyl) based.....
That's a laptop computer on the second shelf running Windows 7 with JRiver Media Center.
Ripped DVD's being played (ripped via Playstation)
Picture is from AXPONA 2015 but he ran the identical system in San Francisco last weekend.
AND IT SOUNDED FABULOUS!!!
Bricasti president Brian Zolner uses that laptop only for playing music and has it configured as such: no Internet connectivity, no virus protection and other stuff running in the background, and an external power supply better than the typical one provided with a laptop. There's more to it than that, but for his purpose of using it for shows it works well.
Brian
So much music, so little time!
You don't need a Playstation to pop the music off DVDs, just a DVD-ripping program running on a computer.
The Playstation is to rip the music files from an SACD, and then you need special software to debundle those streams.
JM
DSD files on SACD, PCM on BluRay and DVD.
Music on Vinyl.
Hard to keep it straight.
;-)
I have to admit, that while I have ADHD and have trouble sitting still for more than 10 seconds, I couldn't for the life me wonder why everyone was sitting down LISTENING to the music???
That, to me, is the biggest conundrum of all ;-)
(Let's me real here: Every loudspeaker looked spanking NEW and we all know, they need to be BROKEN in first before you can listen to them for long periods!)
This rant aside, the tube gear still won me over and THEY are so nice to look at, too.
Not to worry as computer audio is the current "flavor of the week".
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