Comments on: Hoax? Seems not…

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:15:28 +0000

I read somewhere once that one of the best upgrades you can give your CD player is to put a brick on top of it. Less vibration = better sound, so the theory went.
never tested it though.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:15:54 +0000

… and there are indeed devices you can buy to plug in between your MP3 player and your headphones that promise to enhance the sound of your MP3s …

By: Max

Max — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:12:34 +0000

Objects like this circulate since years and belong to the group of “sound enhancers for believers”; they work like placebos.

The official “explanation” of this item seems to be:
- Reflections of laser light at the edges of the disc and vibrations result in more reading errors
- The error correction of the player copes with these errors by inserting interpolated data
- Reducing the reflections/vibrations leeds to less interpolated data and thus to better sound

But I don’t think that I would hear it, even if it’s true …

By: tim

tim — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:35:27 +0000

“Couldnt’ we get used to the sound of pure digital data?”

heh heh, its been done, heres just two examples:
http://www.raster-noton.net/
http://www.ryojiikeda.com/

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:30:03 +0000

I love things like the lathe! I’m one of those people who are just skeptical enough to think that if I can’t measure a difference between two signals by some means, maybe there isn’t a difference. Emperor and questionable clothing and all that.

Maybe the banana plug guy is on to something… let’s just bypass all that messy AD/DA conversion. Couldnt’ we get used to the sound of pure digital data?

Your finds always make my day. Thanks.