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It is an outright insult to EE's everywhere that an audio company claims to very expensively make digitally encoded music 'better' by 'fixing the bits'. Ivor Tiefenbaum's dictum that "If you haven't heard it - you don't have an opinion. Period." is an irrefutable truth in our mysterious Land of Audiophilia. But before you stop reading this just think about Wadax 'bit waveform distortion' and 'waveform dispersion' corrections - at their very HEFTY price.
Electronic engineers have dealt with these electo-magnetic pulse phenomena since Samuel Morse's On-Off Keyed long (& longer) lines, then WW2 radar & sonar, early computer ferrite core memories & spinning HDD's all having pulse sensing, timing, & correction - shaping circuits - often with life & death consequences regarding it being done 'properly'.
Everything digital we use today are dependent on designs from EE's whom insure correct pulse train reading reconstruction and eventual manipulation. So it's "a bit rich" (yes, double entendre') that a major feature of the Wadax units is bit re-shaping etc. There are no real arguments with their extreme efforts with low PS noise & careful interface matching. Although "wave dispersion" at less than 1 metre lenghts is, to put it bluntly, somewhat "stretching the truth". No?
And the TAS Editor muddying the waters by considering the faults of Sony's PCM-1630 and its' NTSC U-matic (60 mins max) 3/4 inch cassette black or white encoded bits in video lines around early analogue speed system spinner mechanisms is not anywhere comparable to todays' tech. Period. Network engineers work for high bit accuracy in modern systems to high level of BER and 'Eye pattern' verifiable proofs as facts.
Throwing big money at these fancy packaged bull patties is so silly it's actually sad. And to repeat, a very foul insult to engineers, technicians and all reproduced music lovers.
Electronic engineers have dealt with these electo-magnetic pulse phenomena since Samuel Morse's On-Off Keyed long (& longer) lines, then WW2 radar & sonar, early computer ferrite core memories & spinning HDD's all having pulse sensing, timing, & correction - shaping circuits - often with life & death consequences regarding it being done 'properly'.
Everything digital we use today are dependent on designs from EE's whom insure correct pulse train reading reconstruction and eventual manipulation. So it's "a bit rich" (yes, double entendre') that a major feature of the Wadax units is bit re-shaping etc. There are no real arguments with their extreme efforts with low PS noise & careful interface matching. Although "wave dispersion" at less than 1 metre lenghts is, to put it bluntly, somewhat "stretching the truth". No?
And the TAS Editor muddying the waters by considering the faults of Sony's PCM-1630 and its' NTSC U-matic (60 mins max) 3/4 inch cassette black or white encoded bits in video lines around early analogue speed system spinner mechanisms is not anywhere comparable to todays' tech. Period. Network engineers work for high bit accuracy in modern systems to high level of BER and 'Eye pattern' verifiable proofs as facts.
Throwing big money at these fancy packaged bull patties is so silly it's actually sad. And to repeat, a very foul insult to engineers, technicians and all reproduced music lovers.