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RE: Don't usually hang around CA, so late to the party: "Linear powered rips sound better".

Posted by Tony Lauck (A) on December 11, 2014 at 13:59:53

In Reply to: Don't usually hang around CA, so late to the party: "Linear powered rips sound better". posted by carcass93 on December 11, 2014 at 12:36:17:

Hey, at least there is no TOS #8 on CA. :-)

I read this recent thread. The posters are probably hearing something real. However, they haven't conducted a controlled experiment so they don't have any way of reliably allocating their "cause" to the sonic differences. There could easily be other factors affecting what they heard.

A similar case involves converting a WAV file to FLAC and then back to WAV. People have said that the second WAV file sounded different. No doubt it did, but the two files had different names and were stored in different locations. And when listened to, the listener wasn't in the same mood the second time, ... This is one case that I did investigate and I did find a plausible cause, because it turns out that quite often the second WAV file had different bits in it than the first one. The audio samples were always the same, but the file headers differed. This could easily have caused the player software to behave differently.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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