It looks good in the marketing BS to people who don't have a clue. And anyone who buys Sonos these days after what they got up to a few years back you REALLY doesn't have a clue.
I worked with an ex BBC sound engineer who swore black and blue he could tell the difference in audio quality between an original CD and a copied CD. I gave up trying to explain how digital works...he already "knew" anyway. He was an otherwise intelligent human being. Some people have very specific delusions.
Its nice and all, that you know how digital works, but sound isn't digital.It is as you might know analog, and it the process of making a digital signal into analog is not trivial, and everything in the process can and usually does influence the result (if you have a system that has the resolution to show it.Things like Jitter, error rate, emi, rfi, powersupply stability has so much influence on the datastream. This is why a powersupply for a high end networking switch is kind of expensive, digital is not just digital. Just like you sounding smart, doesnt mean you are,
What's the point (Score:4, Insightful)
16 bits already gives 96dB signal to noise ratio. More than that is pointless.
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It looks good in the marketing BS to people who don't have a clue. And anyone who buys Sonos these days after what they got up to a few years back you REALLY doesn't have a clue.
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It looks good in the marketing BS to people who don't have a clue.
For audiophiles, nothing is good enough.
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(puts on flameproof suit)
Like GP said, "people who don't have a clue"
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Re:What's the point (Score:1)
Its nice and all, that you know how digital works, but sound isn't digital.It is as you might know analog, and it the process of making a digital signal into analog is not trivial, and everything in the process can and usually does influence the result (if you have a system that has the resolution to show it.Things like Jitter, error rate, emi, rfi, powersupply stability has so much influence on the datastream. This is why a powersupply for a high end networking switch is kind of expensive, digital is not just digital. Just like you sounding smart, doesnt mean you are,