In Reply to: are you kidding? .... yes, it makes all the difference in the world when talking about how something sounds posted by bwb on June 14, 2013 at 20:31:50:
"You claim everything sounds the same but won't divulge what is making the sound?"
No, I didn't claim "everything sounds the same". I just said bit-perfect software sounds the same.
The sound was obviously "made" (and measured) off my TEAC UD-501 DAC for these tests. Where I went into detail with subjective portions of the evaluation that I felt likely would be contentious (ie. JPLAY) it was with listening off the TEAC --> Sennheiser HD-800 headphones. I was even able to A-B the sound essentially instantaneously between the standard ASIO driver and JPLAY. I believe I made this quite clear.
As for the rest of the articles, okay, perhaps I did not mention the hardware used to listen "over the years" but the point was to use the same TEAC DAC to compare objectively in a controlled fashion on the test bench for these posts... Again, with the HD800 I could not hear a difference. I believe I had the AKG Q701 attached for portions of the Mac tests as well. It really would not matter whether 3 years ago I had a Benchmark DAC1, 2 years ago listened to the Weiss DAC202 (decided USB was the future), last year started using the ASUS Essence One on my computer workstation, or this year bought the TEAC for my laptop setup.
All of this has nothing to do with my main system which I thought was what you were initially commenting on with that "profile" comment because I still use my Transporter for the "big rig" which still sounds fantastic all these years.
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- RE: are you kidding? .... yes, it makes all the difference in the world when talking about how something sounds - Archimago 06/14/1323:11:50 06/14/13 (6)
- What is your capture hardware? - Ugly 07:56:09 06/15/13 (4)
- RE: What is your capture hardware? - Archimago 08:28:48 06/16/13 (3)
- RE: What is your capture hardware? - Ugly 12:37:14 06/16/13 (1)
- RE: What is your capture hardware? - Tony Lauck 09:17:40 06/17/13 (0)
- RE: What is your capture hardware? - Tony Lauck 10:05:11 06/16/13 (0)
- I stand corrected, but still have concerns about your tests - bwb 07:49:26 06/15/13 (0)