Sound differences between different media storage

[Botch]

I haven't read this yet, but am posting it before it sinks off my Farcebook. It may be worth no more than a speaker cable comparison.

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm

 

[Haywood]

Wow. What a pant-load.

 

[Towen7]

I stopped reading when the author said that it's a long estaished fact that different digital audio cables had audible differences. Nothing else he says has any validity, IMHO.

 

[Botch]

Thanks guys, and I apologize for posting this before reading it; a smidge of common sense is what makes this forum so worthwhile.

 

[Deleted member 133]

I had the good sense to go no further than the thread's title.

Allow me to digress a bit...

I'd been reminiscing this afternoon while lying on the couch, casted leg in air, while reading one of Neil DeGrasses Tyson's excellent collection of essays. Something he was saying about satellites reminded me of a time back in my working career. One of my duties was to review aerospace-related applications for a part of my organization that funded small business R&D. I used to get all manner of crackpot proposals - most of which required but a cursory review and comment like "this is a proposal for a perpetual motion machine." I remember a very innovatively crazy one for a satellite that could "crawl" through space using a complex onboard set of gyros. But the pages and pages of diagrams and calculations gave it a serious look. I thought it was hilarious so I sent it down to one of my brightest engineers so that he could get a laugh as well. But he missed the most basic point of why it could never work and came back to me singing its praises. I thought he was pulling my leg so I went down to his office. It took me at least an hour to get him to finally understand that most basic point. Brilliant engineer that he was, he got sucked-in by all the pretty pictures.

I've got a pretty good bullshit meter. But what it really is is the ability to relate a given claim back to some very basic principle, like some law of physics.

This is of course for situations where a simple true or false are the only two choices. It's much more difficult - sometimes impossible - where there's a continuum of possible answers, all based on subjective criteria.

Pardon the digression.

Jeff

 

[Akula]

The guy actually thinks different NAS devices color the sound?

Salesmen must LOVE him.

 

[Haywood]

Not only does he think different NAS devices sound different, he thinks different hard drives sound different in the same NAS.

 

[Akula]

Not only does he think different NAS devices sound different, he thinks different hard drives sound different in the same NAS.

Well, a 10K RPM one is going to be a bit louder, but any changes in the sound coming out of the speakers? Of course not.

You just get the feeling the last time he bought a car he got the gap insurance, undercoating, and 3rd party extended warranty.

 

[yromj]

Not only does he think different NAS devices sound different, he thinks different hard drives sound different in the same NAS.

Priceless!! So, I guess his spreadsheets look different depending on which HDD he stores them on, too.

John

 

[Haywood]

The real problem is that he's not using enough Soundhound Piss.