In Reply to: More "everything sounds the same" revelations - this time on Tom's Hardware. posted by carcass93 on February 25, 2014 at 11:00:34:
I see that the Benchmark DAC2 still uses ASRC (now up to 211 kHz). So it could possibly be THAT bad.
As others have suggested, it could be the use of headphones, which precludes evaluating imaging (unless they used binaural recordings).
Then there is the point that subtle differences can never be "reliably" detected in any low budget test conducted by skeptics. Such is the nature of subtle differences. Or, more to the point, such is the nature of dogma.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: More "everything sounds the same" revelations - this time on Tom's Hardware. - Tony Lauck 14:38:19 02/25/14 (10)
- Then there is the point that subtle differences can never be "reliably" detected in any low budget test conduc - fmak 23:28:50 02/26/14 (1)
- RE: Then there is the point that subtle differences can never be "reliably" detected in any low budget test conduc - Tony Lauck 05:57:54 02/27/14 (0)
- What I don't get - they never question their results, no matter how bizarre. - carcass93 14:46:27 02/25/14 (0)
- RE: More "everything sounds the same" revelations - this time on Tom's Hardware. - Mercman 14:44:04 02/25/14 (6)
- Decent sounding - fmak 22:14:27 02/25/14 (4)
- RE: Decent sounding - Mercman 05:36:04 02/26/14 (3)
- RE: Decent sounding-No - fmak 07:46:20 02/26/14 (2)
- RE: Decent sounding-No - Mercman 07:58:31 02/26/14 (1)
- Good ol' Tom may be turning in his grave, for all we know. - carcass93 12:04:05 02/26/14 (0)
- Just for the record - I wasn't serious with that postscriptum. N/T - carcass93 14:48:04 02/25/14 (0)