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Most modern systems do mixing in 32 bit float.The DAC displays 44.1k. I assume the iPhone is doing a non-integer re-sample. How well it's done I don't know.
Most modern systems do mixing in 32 bit float.The DAC displays 44.1k. I assume the iPhone is doing a non-integer re-sample. How well it's done I don't know.
Apple's SRC performance is not great:Most modern systems do mixing in 32 bit float.
I can respect that but I am genuinely interested to understand your position on this. As far as I can tell, there are three possible positions here:
1. All cables sound identical, irrespective of the cost and means of their construction; so a £2,000 interconnect will have no discernable difference in sound, good or bad, versus say a £20 one. They will sound completely the same.
2. There are differences between cables, but none of those differences are either objectively better or worse (again irrespective of the cost and means of construction), they are just different.
3. Cables can sound better or worse in a given system but there is little, if any correlation to how much those cables cost.
It's a sincere question.
No, this is ground plane noise travelling over copper, there's no change to the data.
You are very knowledgeable but should investigate this a bit further before dismissing.
Ah makes sense now; you're an engineer. OK well I'm truly sorry for your loss and hope you have a great day.4. Any differences will be small to the point of irrelevance if the cable has the appropriate spec in terms of capacitance, resistance, etc. Given the details of the source and load impedances vf frequency the changes made by using a given length can then be predicted and measured to validate that calculated prediction. None of this is 'rocket science' or mysterious, just 101 EE.
5. However people will hear differences due to many other factors - e.g. movement of their head, and/or having just heard something before listening now, etc, that in themselves have nothing to do with the cable.
I appreciate that this conversation has moved a bit., but I really don;t understand why you said this. Of course an electromagnetic wave propogates through the field surrounding the conductor, but why or earth does that make it more rather than less plausible that the construction of the cable somehow materially affects the signal than would be the case if the signal in fact propogated exclusively through electrons flowing in the conductor?I can't say I've ever heard the difference between WAV, FLAC etc but in blind listening tests the difference in cables is pretty easy to hear and once you start to understand how electrical signals are 'passed' down the wire (as in they are not passed at all, there is no 'flow' of electrons, it's more like a 'propogation'), it's easy to understand why the construction of a cable would make such a huge difference.
Quality.
Jim you had me ‘triggered’ at the mention of Quantum Mech II. I was genuinely dreaming schrodinger’s in my sleep.
And while I can’t remember who did that particular course, I remember not understanding a single one of Bruce Sinclair’s lecture.
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Ah makes sense now; you're an engineer. OK well I'm truly sorry for your loss and hope you have a great day.
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