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Some actually believe that music from different drive types (SSD,HDD) or different SATA cables can sound different

Try as my ears might I can not hear a musical difference between usb,ssd,micro-sd or hdd. The *only* discernable difference between a mechanical hdd and the other storage devices is it's operational noise [it's not much]. Even that's no bother if storage is in another location. So, no, IMHO there's no audible music difference.
 
steveminnesota said:
Read these with translation please, all from a fairly large "HIFI" form in China, I went there for some STAX headphone reviews but saw these along the way.
Mind blowing how people actually buy this sh*t. Common enough that some will believe things like Audioquest's overpriced $1,000 HDMI cable, but SATA cable? Hard drives? REALLY? Wonder what's next, Hi-Fi keyboard? Hi-Fi home lamp? Hi-Fi doorbell?

But of course, some are probably sellers of these BS cables or even manufacturers themselves.
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I notice the sound on my system sounds more open if I take the screens off the windows in my listening room.
 
2ndHarm said:
I notice the sound on my system sounds more open if I take the screens off the windows in my listening room.
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I find the opposite with the door into my office. When it is open the music becomes closed and unbalanced.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that the open door covers the front of my RHS speaker
 
steveminnesota said:
"Theory of relativity was not proven until later, just like hard drive's contribution toward sound quality can be proved later"
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Hmmm. Of course the theory of relativity was actually a hypothesis, underpinned by well-thought-out reasoning and mathematics, with ideas as to how it could be proven. The technology was simply not available to check all aspects, though gravitational lensing was proven in an eclipse in the early 1900s. Atomic clocks sent with astronauts proved the time dilation portion. I have so far not hear any well-though-out reasoning as to how different hard drives can make different sound.

Now my hypothesis, under the many universes theory, is that certain cables have a deep and as yet unknown connection to some of these parallel universes, in which the geometry is non-Euclidean and therefore 1s and 0s coming off said hard drives are modified sometimes into 1.1s and -0.1s, due to the quantum fluctuations in those parallel universes dark matter impinging through the cable interface. Of course the cables have to be "six nines" copper mined in Argentina and treated with cryogenic Niobium during the drawing process to align the electron spins into the most favorable configuration to to enhance the probabilistic connection into those next-door universes.

Can you believe I spun that out of my stream-of-consciousness in one shot? I can't decide if I should try to find a therapist, or send my resume to AudioQuest...
 
Head_Unit said:
Hmmm. Of course the theory of relativity was actually a hypothesis, underpinned by well-thought-out reasoning and mathematics, with ideas as to how it could be proven. The technology was simply not available to check all aspects, though gravitational lensing was proven in an eclipse in the early 1900s. Atomic clocks sent with astronauts proved the time dilation portion. I have so far not hear any well-though-out reasoning as to how different hard drives can make different sound.

Now my hypothesis, under the many universes theory, is that certain cables have a deep and as yet unknown connection to some of these parallel universes, in which the geometry is non-Euclidean and therefore 1s and 0s coming off said hard drives are modified sometimes into 1.1s and -0.1s, due to the quantum fluctuations in those parallel universes dark matter impinging through the cable interface. Of course the cables have to be "six nines" copper mined in Argentina and treated with cryogenic Niobium during the drawing process to align the electron spins into the most favorable configuration to to enhance the probabilistic connection into those next-door universes.

Can you believe I spun that out of my stream-of-consciousness in one shot? I can't decide if I should try to find a therapist, or send my resume to AudioQuest...
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The 1s and 0s coming off your hard drive will only ever be 1s and 0s. Hard drives have at least 56 bit error correction that would throw out anything different. Anything other than 1s and 0s (digital data) is noise and would be ignored. Drives and RAM especially can have data affected (corrupted) by cosmic rays - causing errors that are usually caught by the error correcting algorithms. This isn't an unknown connection to some parallel universe causing things to be different somehow in a way you could actually hear.
If the drive was corrupted by some act of God or strange unknown phenomenon, then the data would be corrupted and would be unretrievable - you would hear nothing.
A biological example would be how your brain works - a delicate balance between sodium and potassium ions govern the action potentials in nerves that allow you to be alive, feel and be aware of sensory input. If you change this balance in any way - you don't hear things differently - you just die.
 
2ndHarm said:
The 1s and 0s coming off your hard drive will only ever be 1s and 0s. Hard drives have at least 56 bit error correction that would throw out anything different. Anything other than 1s and 0s (digital data) is noise and would be ignored. Drives and RAM especially can have data affected (corrupted) by cosmic rays - causing errors that are usually caught by the error correcting algorithms. This isn't an unknown connection to some parallel universe causing things to be different somehow in a way you could actually hear.
If the drive was corrupted by some act of God or strange unknown phenomenon, then the data would be corrupted and would be unretrievable - you would hear nothing.
A biological example would be how your brain works - a delicate balance between sodium and potassium ions govern the action potentials in nerves that allow you to be alive, feel and be aware of sensory input. If you change this balance in any way - you don't hear things differently - you just die.
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You obviously haven't taken enough LSD to understand.
 
Amateurs. Don’t they know the most analogue sound comes from floppy disk. You change side halfway through each track and have about 20 per album but the sound is to die for. People like flipping vinyl? Wait till you’ve flipped floppy.
 
McFly said:
Amateurs. Don’t they know the most analogue sound comes from floppy disk. You change side halfway through each track and have about 20 per album but the sound is to die for. People like flipping vinyl? Wait till you’ve flipped floppy.
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But paper tape would be so much more organic. Of course, there may be a few problems with reading it at tens of metres per second and storing the reels but just think of the artwork you could get on the box… and of course the excitement of finding out which paper sounds better!
 
Peasants. I listen to my music on CDs, not just regular CDs, Overburned ones. The very edge sounds better than the middle. Yes before you ask, I eat the crusts of pizzas and pies first, because the crust is better.
 
McFly said:
Amateurs. Don’t they know the most analogue sound comes from floppy disk. You change side halfway through each track and have about 20 per album but the sound is to die for. People like flipping vinyl? Wait till you’ve flipped floppy.
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McFly said:
Amateurs. Don’t they know the most analogue sound comes from floppy disk. You change side halfway through each track and have about 20 per album but the sound is to die for. People like flipping vinyl? Wait till you’ve flipped floppy.
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Is there any difference between 8" and 5 1/4" floppys? I actually remember 8" floppy disks on IBM cluster controllers (and paper tape feeds from the Met Office and 747 engine data).
 
This "theory" is ancient, at least a decade old, if not more.

Computer audio fans have been talking about this for years.
 
Grumpish said:
Is there any difference between 8" and 5 1/4" floppys? I actually remember 8" floppy disks on IBM cluster controllers (and paper tape feeds from the Met Office and 747 engine data).
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No, no, no, you uncouth heathens! The only computer storage medium that can properly reproduce analog sound is punched cards. And of course, only after being fed through the card reader at least 100 times will they be broken in. That is why I keep a PDP-11 next to my turntable.

Edit: paper tape MIGHT be an acceptable substitute for those with nervous system disorders which make it difficult to keep card decks organized.
 
Here's a thing you can still encounter in city centers in the Netherlands... it's called a 'draaiorgel' (google it).
Very hifi, no jitter, works on punchcards.



for those that cannot get enough of this ...:D

 
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