Recent content by Iving

On the whole the equipment requirement is not enforced unless a poster is pontificating about SQ. The requirement doesn't so much qualify to opine as it does provide context for readers to interpret a point of view. OP asks "does listing equipment help anything". I doubt very much that members...

Hoffman is a mastering engineer, and his frontispiece Forum encourages discussion not so much about subjective SQ (cf. "audiophool") but about the respective merits of different masterings/issues of the same material/recording. The argument is that you aren't qualified to hold forth on such...

Fav. Xmas Album JD McPherson's 'Socks': https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/jd-mcpherson-christmas-album-socks-762447/ Fav. Xmas Track Toni Price's "The Christmas Boogie":

This scenario, as I read it, has an alternative explanation. Assuming sufficient aggregate experience with hardware (likely in your case as a measurements-orientated reviewer), your SQ expectations were actually realistic and roughly proportionate. There was no psychologically-generated...

Expectation Bias is a subjective phenomenon arising out of Cognitive Dissonance. The latter is psychological conflict which arises because of the reward anticipated after an Instrumental/Operant decision. Beliefs or understandings are shifted post hoc to fit the decision. The driver of all...

With respect you may want to check provenance of your Titles. MoFi DSD as early as 2007. 'Abraxas' 2008 widely discussed. Certainly 2015 not a DSD safety threshold. Some info courtesy "Sex Lies and Master Tapes" on sh.tv here...

It's still barely 48 hrs since this video was broadcast live - and it's provoking a fair bit of online chatter: Bernie Goodman is the voice of mastering experience. Ryan K. Smith is visibly respectful. Chad Kassem is motormouth, and we hope that his solicited "trust" in AP AAA vinyl output...

Whether DSD vinyl is a good product, or can be distinguished from analogue-era 1st issues is moot. There are only opinions. All are equally subjective/legitimate. The issue here is deception. wtf were MoFi doing, since possibly as early as 2007, selling DSD to customers many of whom MoFi must...

I watched the video ... I admit I am susceptible to audiophile "porn". What I noticed (aside from the obvious wealth): - Even supposing the villa owner doesn't have to work or supervise his investments, I don't know how he finds the time. It's as much as I can do to build and maintain one good...

I lived in Newquay (Cornwall, UK) as a child aged 7-9 approx.. This photo was taken by me in August 2006. I was there with one of my sons (RIP) and his friend who is a bkb lightweight champion. Neither of them is the guy leaping in the photo - he was a local attraction. My son's friend was...

- Objectivist protagonists are correct in saying that nothing is proven unless a fitting test yields a statistically sig. difference between conditions (e.g. switch/no switch; or, 2 or more switches etc). - The absence of such a "proven" effect does not mean a that a difference does not exist...

1. Correction. The definition I posted is not "wrong". It is *a* definition. It was a primary result in a search I did this morning. You have presented another definition. That's fine. Why do you have to be so irrationally dogmatic. 2. Your case is fine with me too. I'm not taking sides...

lol - funny man