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In Reply to: RE: Context is the key.-This post demonstates that posted by Ugly on August 30, 2014 at 11:15:05:
You can spend endless time testing an astronomical number of potential PC audio tweaks. Since you aren't inclined to do so, then I suggest you try a very simple one first to see if you can hear a difference. Experiment with buffer sizes in your hardware driver and/or your player software. Find the smallest size that works without audible glitches. Find the largest size that works. Now play music to your heart's content switching between old and new settings and see if you hear any differences. This test involves only one or two parameters, so it's hard to screw it up or do any damage. Just write down what the parameters were before starting and then put them back when you are done.
If you hear differences, then you go on to all the other tweaks. If you don't hear differences then there is no need to hang your head in shame. There are a large variety of reasons why others might hear differences that you do not:
1. The music you listened to was not suitable for uncovering the differences.
2. Your system has problems that limit its ability to show up differences that would otherwise have occurred.
3. You didn't hear any differences because you have not learned how to focus your attention so as to be able to hear them
4. You didn't hear any differences because you have hearing damage
5. You didn't hear any differences because there weren't any to hear because your system and its setup have excellent isolation between the digital and analog components and your DAC has excellent isolation from jitter and other variations from the ideal signal that an ideal transport might send to the DAC.
6. Others who hear differences are hearing defects in the corresponding portions of their systems, e.g. they have noise coupling through cabling, they use a DAC that lacks excellent isolation of digital noise, etc. They may find it more effective to tweak their computer than to get a new DAC that lacks this isolation, or they may have such a DAC but prefer not to use it because it is deficient in other characteristics such as clean analog sound.
7. Others who report hearing differences are fooling themselves. They may be misinterpreting random sensations as definitive results. This may be due to inexperience, carelessness or even dishonesty. From reading posts it is difficult to know how careful and experienced these posters may be. "On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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Follow Ups
- RE: Context is the key.-This post demonstates that - Tony Lauck 08/30/1411:44:18 08/30/14 (6)
- RE: Context is the key.-This post demonstates that-If - fmak 02:03:29 08/31/14 (0)
- You omitted one important detail. - carcass93 14:04:37 08/30/14 (4)
- RE: You omitted one important detail.-I have - fmak 02:05:31 08/31/14 (2)
- RE: You omitted one important detail.-I have - Tony Lauck 19:16:03 08/31/14 (1)
- I have learned from you - fmak 07:07:53 09/1/14 (0)
- RE: You omitted one important detail. - Tony Lauck 18:03:53 08/30/14 (0)
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