In Reply to: RE: "Data Loss" posted by Sprezza Tura on January 6, 2015 at 17:37:41:
I have absolutely no problem with your quoting marketing literature. (You are obviously not a petty shill.) I have only a little problem with writers such as SM who were recruited to sell other people's designs. I presume they are innocent of the FUD they spread. My real zeal is directed to those "designers" or "engineers" who personally write the marketing PS, thereby demonstrating that they are psychopathic liars. (Not the case in this thread, as far as I know.)
I have a visceral reaction to marketing BS.This is just my personal quest. My grandfather's advertising agency created the slogan "A diamond is forever." A great line and it made him a lot of money, some of which ended up paying for my college education. But it was BS, all the same. I did a stint in the 1970's writing marketing literature for computer hardware. I took care not to cross the line into the BS category, but no doubt some idiots were taken in.
As to your hearing differences, I don't doubt it. But it says more about the equipment downstream of the cables than about the cables. Personally, I don't stream music over the Ethernet, except when playing the FLAC stream from Czech radio. There are a new bunch of AES specifications for using Ethernet to stream audio, e.g. in studios. I can see lots of potential problems with implementations of these standards. If instead you are doing file transfers from a file server then I suggest you transfer entire tracks or playlists to a RAM disk on your audio computer and play out of there. This may or may not improve the sound, but it will reduce the "attack surface" exposed to audio gremlins.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: "Data Loss" - Tony Lauck 01/6/1519:51:04 01/6/15 (14)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Sprezza Tura 20:09:27 01/6/15 (13)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Tony Lauck 21:07:06 01/6/15 (12)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Sprezza Tura 21:13:34 01/6/15 (11)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Tony Lauck 21:31:44 01/6/15 (10)
- Is there a research or white paper for lamp cord? - Sordidman 12:35:08 01/7/15 (4)
- RE: Is there a research or white paper for lamp cord? - Tony Lauck 14:13:27 01/7/15 (3)
- RE: Is there a research or white paper for lamp cord? - Sordidman 15:08:47 01/7/15 (2)
- RE: Is there a research or white paper for lamp cord? - Sprezza Tura 18:07:41 01/7/15 (0)
- RE: Is there a research or white paper for lamp cord? - Tony Lauck 16:35:11 01/7/15 (0)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Sprezza Tura 21:40:47 01/6/15 (4)
- """I am forced to assume"" - Sordidman 14:08:28 01/7/15 (1)
- RE: """I am forced to assume"" - Sprezza Tura 18:02:40 01/7/15 (0)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Tony Lauck 22:03:06 01/6/15 (1)
- RE: "Data Loss" - Sprezza Tura 18:04:10 01/7/15 (0)