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In Reply to: another thought posted by Leo loves music on April 22, 2025 at 19:06:15:
Hi Leo, I didn't intend to be offensive so apologies. I don't find your posts idiotic but I do find them idiosyncratic, which is not a bad thing. I am an engineer, and good engineering means better = doing the same job for less cost or doing a better job for the same cost. That is pretty much the opposite of audiophilia where better = more expense, more stuff, more boxes, 'special' components. Maybe digital volume control is a good example. When I bought my CD player, a long time ago, it had bespoke filtering and a digital volume control. Back then that was expensive to implement as it needed a special DSP chip and software. That made it an expensive product but was hailed as audiophile. Later other companies jumped on the bespoke filtering bandwagon to set themselves apart and justify high prices. These days multiple filter options and digital volume control are now integrated into DAC chips making the whole solution much, much cheaper. The solution is still as good but because the price is now low those products are looked down on. This is sad because a lot of effort and talent went into making those features affordable whereas, the technical bar for entry into high end audio is not as high as the prices. If you have access to a CNC machine then you can sell a product and how often do you see the first product spec line being how thick is the face plate?
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