New decade, end of the CD?

oliverstoned wrote: It's not a matter of voltage, it's a matter of power supply in each device.

Reading the last few pages of this topic have been highly informative and fascinating, and convinced me of one thing for sure:

Negoba wrote: So let me get this straight...the difference between a pressed CD and a computer burned CD-R from wav is that the ear tires more quickly due to errors in the coding??? If this were true, there should be a way to take a CD and CD-R burned from ripped wavs, and compare the data side by side. (Dean already alluded to this).   If the data is the same nothing matters until it's converted back to an analog sound. Am I missing something?

No you're confusing two things. i was talking about the comparison between an Imod (Ipod) playing wav files and a home CD setup.

Besides that, i was talking about differences between original CDs
& computer-burned CDs.

The problem is that very very few people have ever heard a good system.
Even the audiophiles, at least 95% of them have bad system and it's not at all a matter of price.

All audiophiles i've met who came at home to buy something were just disgusted by listening my system...they became very pale..."yes it works very good..." and came back home understanding that their system was not good at all.

I had the chance to meet a very big 35 years-of-passion audiophile who learned me how to make a system work.

So people don't believe that having a great sound is possible...
ordinary all-made systems, computers, all that sound crap and people
don't believe that anything else exists.

That's why people have such a hard time believing that a cable may sound different from another...

When i met Alucard and mader him listen my portable system, he said
"he never thought one could get such a sound in portable"
and that's really nothing compared to my home setup which pushes walls!!

My father-in- law don't even want to listen to the last upgrades on my system cause he's too disgusted when he come back home, listening to his (decent) own setup!

But the portable is transparent enough (imagine the big setup) to hear the difference between the steel stock cable and the cooper one. I'm ready to meet anyone in Paris to prove him by listening of my portable.





Edited by oliverstoned - April 07 2011 at 10:02

Oliver, the problem is that you're essentially telling us:

oliverstoned wrote: Why?

2 + 2 =5

like when you think that you can know the sonic qualities of a given device by measurments. Measurments don't tell much, for example a tube amp has poor measures compared to a solid state but in true life, the result is that a 30W tube amp makes more music than a 70 W solidstate.

Cables works that you like it or not, i can prove it with my
portable system. anyway indoor we're in a more and more wave's
polluted environments and so the best a cable is shielded against
that, the purest the signal is.

But most off all, it really works. I won't loose my money and my time
to live with monstruous and overpriced power cables just for the pleasure of loosing my money. It's a huge turbo for my system.

Dean wrote: Gah!

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I think it's a little warmer message myself, a little better definition.