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In Reply to: RE: You're making lots of assumptions. posted by Pat D on June 24, 2010 at 16:41:07
Well, if you want to call hearing loss with age an assumption, that's up to you, but don't expect rational people to follow.
Neither you nor I can speak to Mr. Ricker's hearing ability, but only the inept would assume that the top half octave is where the heart of music lies. It does not.
I would like to see proof that a $25,000 player is audibly better.
I'm sure you would. That's what folks who never have extended exposure to such gear say to rationalize their inability to hear differences that are obvious to those who have. It is indeed difficult to relate the depth of an experience to someone whose frame of reference is completely absent. Imagination always comes up short.
Do continue flying the banner of mediocrity since that is all you know!
rw
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I agree with Pat-D when it comes to $25,000 players. The pricing is just plain absurd, being several times the price of the most expensive converters used to make recordings. Surely far beyond the point of diminishing returns.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
on which you base your opinion? dCS? Burmester? EMM Labs? Esoteric? Others?
Pat's conundrum is that he doesn't (even begin to) know what he doesn't know. It is difficult to base an opinion on that which is completely outside one's frame of reference.
Did you ever ask Brad why he chose cheap consumer units to use as his reference points for "high resolution audio"? Is he even remotely aware of what is available?
rw
It's been years since I was at Brad's place. At the time he was touting how his Carver amplifier was perfect and all CD players sounded the same. He even demonstrated the latter. It wasn't a convincing demonstration, not because the players sounded different but because the music didn't sound as good as I could hear over at his ex-buddy Clark's place.
My comments on converters relate to the pricing of the top pro audio converters, such as the DAD AX24 vs. the high end consumer products, not sound quality. There is a long history of over charging for consumer products, since more money buys more ego satisfaction, something that is less important in the pro audio field where performance and reliability rank first.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
It wasn't a convincing demonstration, not because the players sounded different but because the music didn't sound as good as I could hear over at his ex-buddy Clark's place.
There you go.
BTW, the EMM Labs players/DACs are pro units used by virtually all the SACD recording studios, including Sony.
rw
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