Yes I bought quite a few Chesky's from back in the day, I would buy recordings that got the glowing detailed subjective reviews to help me judge my systems against what they wrote about hearing. Kind of the way we did things in the ole days. LOL Don't need to do that stuff any more, thankfully things have improved greatly from back then when only a small number of consumer grade LP's came out of the sleeve without issue. It's extremely rare that digital media, either hard or download, doesn't provide perfect playback performance.
My unhappiness with the senior Mr Chesky was his joining up with the high end snake-oil clan that took over much of audio marketing in the last few decades. I did make it sound like the audio quality of their labels output had gone downhill and that was unfair since I haven't heard anything new in a long time. I only buy music today that I enjoy, not just something that got great reviews for it's sound quality.
But IMHO the brand has lost it's way, now firmly in the high-end clan that denounces measurement against pure subjective listening. While many in the clan are gushing all over the net about his new speakers, Erins review has revealed the real truth of their performance. Of course the Sr Chesky had already covered his bets in the "streaming sound sucks" paper he wrote where he states the measurements of speakers is mostly irrelevant and the unverified ear tuning is what counts. Also in the same paper he writes on how he can hear the difference between a streamed file and his sourced file when the two null out?
"The real mystery to me is that when we capture both files in a Digital Audio Workstation, they null out. So what causes the difference in sound? Even though it’s a digital signal, could it be some triboelectric effect over long wires? Could all the complex connections across the web be picking up electrical noise along the way, degrading the sound during playback?
After downloading and confirming that the files were identical, the streamed version still sounded different in real-time playback.
Perhaps there's an "X factor" not yet captured in current scientific testing. But with my extensive experience in live and recorded music, I trust my ears over any graph."
Received a newsletter from "The Audiophile Society" today. David Chesky on Streaming Convenience vs Sound Quality Now I have to unsubscribe after reading so much nonsense... WHY DOWNLOADS ARE BETTER THAN STREAMINGS The Audiophile's Dilemma: Streaming Convenience or Sound...
www.audiosciencereview.com
Here we go again, there's magic there that he can hear but can't be measured.
BS !
How about you prove that claim in a publicly held, bias controlled, DBL session.?
Of course he hears a difference, there must be one, or he won't sell his expensive files.
