Recent content by DLF

It was a number of years ago. ISTR they were selling off Naim ex dem stuff because they had recently stopped selling it if that helps with dates. A friend of mine had a standard 80s student system of Rotel amp, AR speakers some record player and Technics CD that was falling to bits. We lived...

Are these the same chaps who tried to sell me 4 figure MIT interconnects a few years ago because the mystery box made things 'phase coherent'? I have to hand it to the guy he is an excellent salesman and preps you with exactly what improvements you are supposed to hear and the science behind...

Sorry for adding to the noise but I can think of a fascinating experiment involving a skilled hi-fi salesman and a metal and glass stand. The objective is for the salesman to convince the punter, using nothing more than a pen and the power of suggestion, that the stand 'rings' and 'sings along...

Incidentally 16bit with dithering gives you 120db dynamic range. A classical music concert is 80db. Intuitively people mistakenly believe more bits and a higher sample rate results in more detail. As you say it doesn't work like that.

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

http://lavryengineering.com/pdfs/lavry-sampling-theory.pdf

You have got to be ****ing kidding Dave. You casually libel engineers for the death of astronauts then get all upset about ****ing hi fi! Ban me now, the world has gone mad.

Thanks Dave that is interesting. Of course engineers are flawed. I just took objection to this comment: One of the engineers responsible for the joint seals was Roger Boisjoly. Regards

Don't forget the boosters were provided by a third party and the engineers actually responsible for designing them said 'don't go'. NASA decided to go and whether the decision was made by former engineers is irrelevant. They had nothing to do with the booster rockets design or testing...

No they were managers. They were also predominantly American, white, male and over 40. From one of the report authors: Feynman’s account reveals a disconnect between NASA’s engineers and executives that was far more striking than he expected. His interviews of NASA’s high-ranking managers...

The Challenger disaster was a failure of management not engineering. Read the report. I suggest you pick a more tasteful example to pursue your anti-science anti-engineering agenda.

Sorry Dave, I consider this a rather tasteless and ignorant comment. The Morton Thiokol engineers recommended NASA scrub the launch because of the cold temperatures.

I confess I don't know what 'all aspects of replay quality are' but how could he go about proving that? If a suite of tests shows more distortion in amplifier A than amplifier B then B is more faithful to the original - by definition. We can't prove this will always be true but it's the best...

I don't think that's fair, Serge has repeatedly stated his preferences are based on fidelity i.e. faithfulness to the original - not how much he enjoys what comes out the other end.

And if everyone gets to have their own personal definition of what words mean we may as well give up all forms of communication! :rolleyes: