oldwood

That is a great video that a lot of people need to see. There are just too many things that affect how a piece of equipment will sound in your room to have just one measurement be the only consideration. I think humans do not like complicated situations and want to simplify everything, and that is why something like SINAD is easy for people to jump on as a silver bullet and ignore everything else. The idea that manufactures would change their process to make the device measure better in spite of the fact it would result in a device that does not sound as good makes me think of the loudness wars that did more to destroy the sound of recordings in the pursuit of more sales than any other event I can think of. I found the bit about a gaming PC being the noisiest source you can use interesting, since I feed a DAC from my computer. I would like to hear more about that topic, including what the better solution might be. Thanks for the video.

I found the video on WAV VS flac interesting. I have always thought the sound would be the same because it is bit perfect. Paul is right in his statement that drive space has gotten so cheap that WAVs are not big problem. I use a Topping E30 DAC that outputs to a Marantz AV8003 Pre Pro that outputs to a a735X amp. I am running Linux and output through ALSA in direct mode. I did a test and converted some Flacs to WAVs both 24 bit and standard 16 bit. I have been listening for a few hours and would say there may well be a slight improvement but it could be my expectation as much as anything. (Confirmation bias) I gave up on high resolution flacs as I can not tell the difference when listening. I think some of the high resolution flacs are remixed and remastered off the masters and some of that sounds better just because of the new mix or mastering? Thanks for the videos, very interesting stuff.