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qirex posted:One of my favorite pieces of insanity is people going nuts for original model Playstations as audiophile CD players. Thank you for this, as now I found a gullible ebay market for my original 1001 which no longer plays games but can play audio just fine!
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Spoondrift posted:Can you cite this or show an example of a circuit with this property? I'm with Spoondrift in this particular bit. No one here is seriously arguing that the data path from the media to the DAC can somehow alter the digital representation of the audio unless a piece of equipment is fundamentally broken. Different DACs will likely have some (almost entirely imperceptible) quirks on the analog side, for that is the nature of analog audio. The insanity from audiophiles comes from people trying to improve the digital source material going into the DAC (outright snake oil), and improving the analog output way past the point of diminishing returns. I have no doubt that a $100,000 amplifier will sound better than a discman, all else being equal. But I'd rather spend that money touring the world and going to live music venues where I can complain about the jitter coming from the trombone.
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This is in a way relevant to the thread and in a way completely irrelevant, but here's an excitable Australian tearing down a fake "audiophile" amplifier from a white van scam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3B_KKyntQE
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Apparently playing brickwalled corporate metal at whiskey makes it taste betterquote:THE 
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