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  • arnyk
    Senior Member
    • May 2015
    • 778
    #16
    Originally posted by drmatt
    I have to say it's a crap marketing tactic to go slagging off a much loved obsolete music streamer to attempt to plug your portable music *player*. It's not even got a common function to talk about, it's just, different.
    The OP was no doubt rooted in perceptions based on sighted evaluations.

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      • Wombat
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2006
        • 1172
        #17
        Didn't we have something similar lately with a Brokkoly DAC?
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          • Recoveryone
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2006
            • 285
            #18
            my first clue about his status was his remark about the Hi Rez files not sounding Audiophile quality. How many years have this board and many others had this debate on audiophile quality, when we all know or should know it all starts at the master recording. Just because a file is in FLAC of some other Hi Rez format does not mean it automatically can pass as audiophile. That just my 2 cents
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              • Julf
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 2567
                #19
                Originally posted by Wombat
                Didn't we have something similar lately with a Brokkoly DAC?
                I guess the placebophile snake oil pushers are getting more desperate...
                "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

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                  • Julf
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 2567
                    #20
                    Originally posted by Recoveryone
                    my first clue about his status was his remark about the Hi Rez files not sounding Audiophile quality. How many years have this board and many others had this debate on audiophile quality, when we all know or should know it all starts at the master recording. Just because a file is in FLAC of some other Hi Rez format does not mean it automatically can pass as audiophile. That just my 2 cents
                    Good points - and your 2 cents are probably equivalent of quite a bit more in the audiophile universe.
                    "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

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                      • Mnyb
                        Senior Member
                        • Feb 2006
                        • 16539
                        #21
                        Originally posted by Recoveryone
                        my first clue about his status was his remark about the Hi Rez files not sounding Audiophile quality. How many years have this board and many others had this debate on audiophile quality, when we all know or should know it all starts at the master recording. Just because a file is in FLAC of some other Hi Rez format does not mean it automatically can pass as audiophile. That just my 2 cents
                        It's a very good piont that many audiophiles wants to forget

                        That probably 99.9% of all recordings ever done has less fidelity than 16/44.1 redbook ....

                        So the question about how good the latest hirez format is , is not even relevant ?
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                          • Golden Earring
                            Senior Member
                            • Feb 2017
                            • 372
                            #22
                            The Mythical Ethical Icical Tricycle

                            Originally posted by Wombat
                            Didn't we have something similar lately with a Brokkoly DAC?
                            Fair call!

                            But then I'm still enjoying the suspension of disbelief, as indeed you may well be with your modded Transporter...

                            Dave

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