DACs - Should I care?

[AcuDefTechGuy]

There are people who refuse to hear difference and slight those who do because it does not comport with their own bias.
Some have spent a great deal of money on equipment and must reject all such thinking - Stop me before I buy again

- Rich

I spend all kinds of money on equipment just so I can defend myself against those who claim to hear all kinds of significant differences.

But anyway, you hear what you hear. Everyone can compare for themselves and be the final judge. Don't take my word or anyone's word for it.

 

[Nestor]

I feel like I'm playing Twister in this thread with you, Nestor. I'm just expressing an experienced opinion. I get it that you don't agree, but twisting my opinion into consciously spreading FUD for the purpose of asserting that there are audible differences between electronics is just silly. And what people espouse on one subject does affect their credibility on other subjects.

I too, am expressing an experienced opinion, and what you assert is unprovable. So why bother saying it, if not to cast doubt on ABX testing?

Einstein held the opinion that the universe was static until Hubble proved him completely wrong. Shall we toss out the theory of relativity based on his now deflated credibility?

 

[Irvrobinson]

I too, am expressing an experienced opinion

So, you've participated in SBT or DBT testing?

 

[Nestor]

...Frankly, I think the problem the audio industry has is that there isn't a compelling test, IMO, for subtle audible differences. ...

There is. It's called bias-controlled listening tests. Accept it.

 

[Nestor]

So, you've participated in SBT or DBT testing?

Yes. I've used Foobar. And my participation changes nothing about its merits.

 

[RichB]

You can save a great deal of money buying "DBT approved gear - guaranteed to sound just like everything else".

- Rich

 

[RichB]

I spend all kinds of money on equipment just so I can defend myself against those who claim to hear all kinds of significant differences.

But anyway, you hear what you hear. Everyone can compare for themselves and be the final judge. Don't take my word or anyone's word for it.

I think it is a mistake to take experiences that do not match your own personally.

My subjective experience may have no bearing on yours and visa versa. But when you dismiss others experience as "perceived", that is the aggressive position not the defensive one

On amps, I take the same position as Audioholics, that amps even when driven within their limits can sound differently.

- Rich

 

[Irvrobinson]

Einstein held the opinion that the universe was static until Hubble proved him completely wrong. Shall we toss out the theory of relativity based on his now deflated credibility?

Einstein had a lot of positions I don't agree with, like the acceptability of marrying one's first cousin, but relativity is not an opinion, it is a scientific theory based on mathematics that have been proven correct by predictions and subsequent observations that those predictions were correct. He didn't like quantum mechanics either, but he contributed enough in 1905 alone to reasonably support the argument some people have that he was the greatest scientist who has ever lived. You probably need to think this through a little better.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

So there you have it.

Basically there will be people who think they can hear a significant difference between DACs and Amps and there will be people who think they cannot hear a significant difference.

 

[RichB]

So there you have it.

Basically there will be people who think they can hear a significant difference between DACs and Amps and there will be people who think they cannot hear a significant difference.

... and upgrade anyway

- Rich

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

... and upgrade anyway

- Rich

And there will be people who think you should upgrade anyway and people who think you should save your money for other things.

 

[RichB]

And there will be people who think you should upgrade anyway and people who think you should save your money for other things.

You mean people like Gladys Kravitz?

Those who worry about how I spend my money are busy bodies.

We all spend more than some and less than others

- Rich

 

[Jazzy2020]

Abner. Abner!!
AV equipment keeps magically appearing on their doorstep. That Mrs. Stephens..

 

[RichB]

You mean people like Gladys Kravitz?

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Those who worry about how I spend my money are busy bodies.

We all spend more than some and less than others

- Rich

Wow, blast for the past.
Karen Kravitz, we now know her first name

- Rich

 

[Trell]

Old thread, but still relevant. Not quite as eternal as speaker wires, but we're getting there