Purité Audio
Trade: Purite Audio
I am showing what the manufacturer would have you believe and the truth.
Keith
Keith
Can we hear anything, allowed to hear anything, or are you deaf/stupid?
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Alex S
carbon based lifeform
That’s the problem - a lot of words that intentionally or not bamboozle. Now have a look at the measurements Keith posted.
clivem2
pfm Member
Our photos for our profiles say it all. Such a difference.
Tony L
Administrator
...and out for a fortnight to prove I really do not give a shit when it comes to moderating trolling/shilling traders.
clivem2
pfm Member
I have a regen but I didn’t buy it because of any technical pdfs. It’s not the ultimate but in certain dac configurations it’s really hard to say that it doesn’t make a difference.
Alex S
carbon based lifeform
I’ll repeat, I’m no expert but surely a set of technical measurements does not give the game away with respect to design or implementation.
clivem2
pfm Member
I can’t be sure about electronics or speaker drivers but in my field of IT if I get to know what and RPA system or AI / Cognitive has achieved it gives me a huge steer as to what to address.
clivem2
pfm Member
I thought yours was a Lion! My hound is a lean 43kg and frisky, quite a handful.
You were sneering and you know it. In a thread that is complaining about on sneering at subj, this is not OK.
Jonathan
pfm Member
ok ok i guess i was being a bit snotty -sorry for that then - i've just seen SO MUCH of that toward the 'subjectivists' it seemed quite liberating at the moment (not as though i was directing toward anyone in particular but a phantom adversary)
DimitryZ
pfm Member
In the late 1980s, when I started this hobby, it was common knowledge that engineers simply didn't have the right measurements that would validate what we actually heard.
Here we are 30+ years later, when one would expect that the science would have advanced and would finally have a more sophisticated set of tests that would align with our perception.
Alas, we are still exactly in the same place in the debate. And after thinking about it for a long time, I have come to an inescapable conclusion that it isn't, for example, some mysterious and unmeasured charachteristic that makes tube equipment sound "better" - it is audible level of second harmonic distortion.
Since then, I replaced my very expensive tube gear (Canary Audio) with moderate priced solid state gear (Emotiva), put away my tube buffers and my USB reclockers. I now insist that my gear measures very well, because if it can't reproduce simple sine tones without adding distortion, it will do worse still when playing much more complex music.
Here we are 30+ years later, when one would expect that the science would have advanced and would finally have a more sophisticated set of tests that would align with our perception.
Alas, we are still exactly in the same place in the debate. And after thinking about it for a long time, I have come to an inescapable conclusion that it isn't, for example, some mysterious and unmeasured charachteristic that makes tube equipment sound "better" - it is audible level of second harmonic distortion.
Since then, I replaced my very expensive tube gear (Canary Audio) with moderate priced solid state gear (Emotiva), put away my tube buffers and my USB reclockers. I now insist that my gear measures very well, because if it can't reproduce simple sine tones without adding distortion, it will do worse still when playing much more complex music.
Thetiminator
Painfully virile
What percentage of the world around us are we able to observe, measure and explain? 4% is it?
Cereal Killer
432
Many people actually prefer the 2nd harmonic distortion. They call it 'analog' sounding...
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
clivem2
pfm Member
Brilliant!
Alex S
carbon based lifeform
It's a Jeff Koons Poodle I worked on recently.
That's irrelevant, it's like suggesting that we can't comment on what we see because we can't see in infra red or UV.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Beobloke
pfm Member
And yet I’ve never heard anything that measures less than optimally that I could live with - when I think of all my favourite equipment, it happens to measure well too.
Brings us back to those pesky ears and brains, and their unreliability again doesn’t it?!