Comments on: The Importance of Source in Audio http://www.onecallblogs.com/2009/06/27/the-importance-of-source-in-audio/ Expertise is the Difference Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:49:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.onecallblogs.com/2009/06/27/the-importance-of-source-in-audio/comment-page-1/#comment-5694 Steve Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:14:04 +0000 http://www.onecallblogs.com/?p=382#comment-5694 You certainly jumped to conclusions based on a single incident with your HD DVD player. Your anecdote is meaningless though. I suggest you try at least a single blind ABX test. Make sure to level match within .1dB. I am confident that you and your family will not be able to consistantly pick out the more expensive source over the HD DVD player. The same thing goes for properly encoded 320k mp3 files. Hydrogenaudio forums has done significant testing on the subject, and it seems that for the vast majority of the population, 320k is transparent. Most listeners report somewhere between 192k and 256k as being the threshhold for transparency. Please look into the science of audio before rehashing the usual audiophile ideas. You certainly jumped to conclusions based on a single incident with your HD DVD player. Your anecdote is meaningless though. I suggest you try at least a single blind ABX test. Make sure to level match within .1dB. I am confident that you and your family will not be able to consistantly pick out the more expensive source over the HD DVD player.

The same thing goes for properly encoded 320k mp3 files. Hydrogenaudio forums has done significant testing on the subject, and it seems that for the vast majority of the population, 320k is transparent. Most listeners report somewhere between 192k and 256k as being the threshhold for transparency.

Please look into the science of audio before rehashing the usual audiophile ideas.

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