[Audio_Empire[_2_]]

On Monday, August 5, 2013 8:13:46 AM UTC-7, wrote:


Because the mag we love to hate still delivers the baloney.

This week's online page offers this gem:

" The Bifrost wasn't warmed up, and it certainly hadn't settled in--but"
Now that is a bit of digital gear mind you. Those sluggish electrons need
a bit of time to get to the task and find their proper path don't ya know.

The scientific reality of stereophile.

I still fail to understand (except for commercial advertising reasons) why
Atkinson would continue to foster such nonsense. When I worked with him,
he certainly had enough technical acumen to KNOW BETTER!

The idea that digital equipment has to "settle-in" (does your computer need to
"settle-in" before your word processor works properly, or before your web
browser will give you the URL for which you asked?) coupled with the idea that
cables have a "break-in period" is pure nonsense that can all be traced back
to a quaint "notion" by the non-technical "audiophile community" that music,
whether an analog electrical signal or a digital bit stream is somehow "special"
and doesn't adhere to the normal laws of physics pertaining to electricity. For
anyone here who still believes that, rest assured it's bullpuckey. Audio is a
low frequency AC signal and not a very complex one at that. If a cable can pass
a DC current without loss, then it can pass an audio signal in exactly the same
manner. And a digital audio signal, even at 24/384 is no more complicated a
digital code than is the code for a copy of Photoshop, the Windows OS and is
probably a lot less complex.

Basically, audio is a very simple waveform compared to many waveforms being
transmitted electronically. There is nothing special about it. The fact that
magazines like Stereophile (and others) continue to discuss the sound of
various cablesand other audio mythologies simply means that their
methodologies, and/or ideologies are very flawed.