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Agree - I always wash our family's cast iron pans with dish soap and warm water after use. The cleaning takes off almost everything sitting on top of the surface from that meal's cooking, but the cooking surface of the pan retains its patina and seasoning, which is "soaked in"/fused with the...

This doesn't deny that a new version of the 310 is coming out - it only says there's no confirmed information yet one way or the other.

Like @Jim Taylor , I strongly prefer smooth, to the point that I personally won't purchase or use rough. That said, my experience has also been that there's good-quality "pebbled" rough cast iron, and then there's cheap, really rough cast iron. The latter is IMHO unusable and a great example of...

I've used a Mac mini for years as my computer music streamer. I have a 2012 Intel-based mini and it's more than powerful enough to stream 24/192k music via USB. So a more modern M1 or M2-based mini will absolutely be fine for whatever audio you throw at it. Lessons I've learned from the...

I'd always assumed pma would be the owner and sole moderator of that site. :)

My vote goes to that thread for the one that feels the longest.

Eagerly awaiting the launch of sister site AudioSquareWaveReview.

I have to agree with this. I say "have to" because like you, @alaios , I guess I think things would be simpler if DSP for room correction weren't necessary. For many years I lived without proper DSP, and I did so happily. But now that I have a better system that includes DSP, I am experiencing...

In my view and experience, the corollary to @Aerius-Aye 's experience of SACD vs PCM also applies: take a device that does pass through pure DSD and compare its DSD output with its DSD-converted-to-PCM output, and if you are using the same SACD and the volume levels are matched, you're not going...

Same here. The only tiny qualification I'd make is that there are some hybrid SACDs out there where the CD-PCM layer has the same mastering but the levels are such that there is digital clipping. (It is possible to create PCM clipping during SACD-PCM conversion if you don't set the makeup gain...

Amen!

Dude, this is exactly the problem - and exactly why I've felt warranted in calling your posts stupid. Every single comment you've posted in this exchange since the initial "what percentage better is digital?" comment, is obviously sarcastic, and I and everyone else knows it. That's the stupid...

If this is how you want to proceed, then I’ll just keep calling you stupid until a mod tells me to stop or you get thread-banned for trolling.

So is this supposed to be the part where I write, "There is no possible way to provide a quantitative answer to your question"? - so that you can respond, "Exactly"? I'm hoping that wasn't the idea, because that's really stupid. And made even stupider by the fact that you had to lie to get...

So your "non-snarky" question was actually a snarky question then?

Matt, that part of your response alone warranted a Like. :)

This thread increasingly feels like a lock groove.

It doesn't matter if stray capacitance is present; what matters is whether or not ground-related hum or noise is present at audible levels. Whether you measure that distance from the listening position, a foot or two from the speakers, or with your ear pressed against the speaker driver, is a...

It's not inevitable that you will have a ground loop. And I would think it would be impossible, or at least impractical, to test gear's immunity to passing along ground-loop noise because the test condition cannot replicate or anticipate the range of variability in real-world conditions. And...

Different CD drives have different offsets. This means they can rip the identical track but as noted above, the resulting file may have different durations of silence before and/or after the music. This is the most likely explanation here, though as @Vincent Kars notes, you be certain (well...