In Reply to: I'm tired of people running down Audio Note (UK) posted by Frihed89 on August 22, 2015 at 00:18:50:
at the following quote from the AN UK website dated 2012/1/17,
>"Whilst the rest of the audiophile world continues it delusional and ultimately doomed love affair with the currently fashionable crop of what claim to be 'high resolution' computer sources, we at Audio Note (UK) continue to extract even greater degrees of information and quality from Red Book CD, which is still the best, currently available digital music format."
What a load of hooey. This pitch can only work on someone who has not heard hi-res albums.
How about this one from the ANK kits site,
>"Audio Note DAC's support Redbook 16/44 and 24/96 recordings but no higher. The reason is that you can't implement resistor ladder dac with higher level resolution due to the resistor ladder implementation - its been proven that the higher level resolution does not bring anything to the table when it comes to digital audio."
I won't even get into the proven thing, but it certainly brings higher resolution to the table. The superiority of 24/192 over 16/44 and 24/96 is obvious. At least as microdetail goes. It doesn't have to be a killer that your dac can only do 18 bits, but to shoot lines of crap like that. It doesn't build confidence. Yes I know they have new dacs on the way. It still doesn't change what they wrote.
Want to bet that when they release a 20bit 192khz ladder dac they will shoot you a new line? I hope it's not as full of crap as the above two.
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- May I express my dismay - Mr_Steady 18:34:08 08/25/15 (32)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Todd Krieger 01:33:44 08/27/15 (2)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Mr_Steady 20:29:15 08/27/15 (1)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Todd Krieger 01:33:48 08/28/15 (0)
- You May Express Your Dismay - Peter Qvortrup 10:29:28 08/26/15 (20)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - Tre' 09:36:22 08/29/15 (1)
- Those were serious questions - Tre' 12:10:59 08/29/15 (0)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - Todd Krieger 01:19:52 08/27/15 (0)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - Mr_Steady 12:05:03 08/26/15 (13)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - Peter Qvortrup 03:03:14 08/27/15 (12)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - tube wrangler 02:06:49 09/02/15 (0)
- Speaking of which, Peter, - jusbe 22:12:28 08/28/15 (5)
- RE: Speaking of which, Peter, - Garg0yle 23:12:36 08/28/15 (4)
- RE: Speaking of which, Peter, - box 02:33:23 08/29/15 (3)
- RE: Speaking of which, Peter, - jusbe 03:40:09 08/29/15 (2)
- RE: Speaking of which, Peter, - box 04:23:35 08/29/15 (1)
- Ahh, - jusbe 12:22:46 08/29/15 (0)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - Mr_Steady 20:01:22 08/27/15 (0)
- I will refrain from negativity here... I hold Martin Colloms in the highest esteem, a man of integrity~nT - Cleantimestream 13:59:11 08/27/15 (0)
- RE: You May Express Your Dismay - LinuxGuru 11:26:47 08/27/15 (2)
- I don't see much AN advertising these days - Frihed89 20:36:21 08/27/15 (1)
- To get back on track... - R Browne 22:01:08 08/27/15 (0)
- If I may go off on a tangent here. - Garg0yle 10:51:24 08/26/15 (2)
- RE: If I may go off on a tangent here. - Peter Qvortrup 00:25:40 08/27/15 (1)
- RE: If I may go off on a tangent here. - Garg0yle 07:52:34 08/27/15 (0)
- RE: May I express my dismay - RGA 06:49:55 08/26/15 (7)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Mr_Steady 11:36:45 08/26/15 (6)
- RE: May I express my dismay - RGA 00:59:47 08/27/15 (1)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Mr_Steady 20:10:17 08/27/15 (0)
- Frankly, for most digital music, yes (IMO). - jusbe 18:38:46 08/26/15 (1)
- RE: Frankly, for most digital music, yes (IMO). - Mr_Steady 20:08:54 08/27/15 (0)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Frihed89 14:32:21 08/26/15 (1)
- RE: May I express my dismay - Mr_Steady 17:10:42 08/26/15 (0)