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Dogmatic adherence to questionable 'truths'

If you consider a review to be a collection of observations and impressions of a particular component, then anyone could be qualified to be an equipment viewer - in the same way that anyone who eats and tastes is qualified to be a food critic.

I do, however, have an issue with some of Teresa's dogmatic standpoints on certain issues, namely:

1. Extended high frequencies are an important part of high resolution playback. I would argue that this statement is not of much value unless a comparison is run of a recording of a particular resolution (say 24 bit, 96KHz) which has variable roll-offs of high frequencies. Regardless of whether your speakers roll off at 20, 30 or 40KHz, the issue here is whether you can actually hear those frequencies, and whether they make a difference to the recording. The fact that they may be present in the recording does not mean they make a difference to the perceived sound.

2. DSD is better than PCM (often correlated with Telarc is best). Again, you would need PCM and DSD versions of the same master to do the evaluation. I suspect the preference for DSD may be a preference of a particular master, not the digital format.

3. 16/44.1 is bad. Again, dogmatic and dismissive. It all comes down to the master and the DAC. I've heard replay through streaming DACS which sounded pretty darned good - with the right masters.




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