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RE: Do components have their own sound?

Posted by EduardG (A) on December 8, 2015 at 18:45:38

In Reply to: RE: Do components have their own sound? posted by Tony Lauck on December 8, 2015 at 18:10:25:

Alright. We kind of digressed from the topic with this marketing argument. My background is really in speaker design and building. Mostly horns - I spend couple decades assisting Dr. Bruce Edgar in his shop and picked up a lot of knowledge from him. Computer based music servers are rather new to me. In speakers, wiring, capacitors and such all may have their own sonic signatures and sound. And a lot of it makes sense: paper in oil sounds different from mylar film or copper foil. I also understand that power supply may have a great impact on the sound.The job of a computer, on the other hand, is to process a digital stream - o-1-o-1-0-1-0-1-0-1 and so on. And in this I don't see any parameters other then speed and perhaps jitter. So when I read hi-end manufacturers claims that they spent countless hours listening to different motherboards and processors, and how some hardware works better with this component and not so good with that, now, this just doesn't make sense to me. Am I missing something? Do MB have their own sound? Do they sound different if connected with different processors, RAM chips?

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