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In Reply to: RE: Let me expand .... posted by bjh on May 29, 2014 at 07:05:41:
I do not condone the use of torture, even in statements.
Irony can work on many levels but, to me, the most obvious is that an artisan would really care about his/her design. Based on JA's measurements (link below) the Lector has real performance problems. What would make a successful DAC would be to try to reproduce each step in the digital word with an equally sized analog voltage to as low a level as possible - not in this case. Pretty much every other set of DAC measurements that have appeared in Stereophile over the last couple of years are similar, so it can be done, and the subjective reviews are good too.
I didn't understand your comment about not being novel - you are right that the objective vs subjective debate is not new - and, if you already accept that measurements don't matter at all then, perhaps, the irony is on me for caring.
In another branch of this topic you asked what makes a good engineer. Well, I have objective goals to meet and I know how close I get to meeting them with the associated trade-offs. In the professional audio world I suspect things are pretty much the same. There was a recent post to the General Asylum about John Curl (including a link to his collected thoughts) - he seems to have hit the perfect balance for the audiophile world.
Regards
13DoW
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- RE: Let me expand .... - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 15:18:08 05/29/14 (13)
- For me one thing has become clear - morricab 05:33:53 06/02/14 (7)
- RE: For me one thing has become clear - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 11:53:43 06/02/14 (1)
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- RE: For me one thing has become clear - Tony Lauck 20:17:54 06/03/14 (1)
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- RE: For me one thing has become clear - rick_m 13:16:53 06/03/14 (0)
- RE: Let me expand .... - Tony Lauck 17:34:22 05/29/14 (4)
- It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but......... - Rick W 22:48:12 05/29/14 (3)
- RE: It may be bread & butter for mastering engineers, but......... - Tony Lauck 07:38:35 05/30/14 (2)
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