30 Years of Perfect Sound?

Reading over the rest of this man's site as pertains to audio I find a lot of contradictions and misinformation. I would take his opinions with a grain of salt.

No audio product has ever succeeded because it was better, only because it was cheaper, smaller, or easier to use.

Syntax,

What you said is so true, I believe it has been said that Beta was better than VHS but we all know that VHS had won out because it could record more time.

Then there was Laserdisc, I personal think that Laserdisc was personally better than DVD, especially the early DVDs (not Blu-ray).

Also don't forget marketing, if you spend enough money on marketing you can brainwash people into buying an inferior product thinking its the best product. For example, Bose has great marketing.

'Listening and reporting is only an opinion. Anyone can do that. Doing the technical research to understand why one might hear what they hear is a lot harder.'

Yes it is a lot harder - much much harder. And even if you are an engineer with many many years experience you will quite possibly get it wrong - check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CkyrDIGzOE

Best to simply listen to it and make up your own mind since even the experts can get it wrong - or to be more exact have to constantly revise what they thought previously.

There is simply no shortcut to actually hearing gear.

Thanks
Bill

Hmm, I think if one has a website about technology (photography and home audio) one should offer up more than just opinion based on listening.

For the average Joe listener, nothing wrong with listening and deciding, but a little understanding of the technology can never hurt.

BTW, I just realized that his subtitle "30 years of perfect sound forever" is probably the biggest offense. Clearly nothings perfect nor forever. A bit of exaggeration in writing can help make a read more interesting and controversial albeit less accurate.

Does anyone here know if it's true that a CDP has no jitter as stated in the article in question? It's one thing to knock the guy and how he came to his conclusions but I haven't seen a refutation of the no jitter issue.

Considering the extreme value that computer audio places on jitter and its elimination, this all makes me very curious as to whether more dosh should be place towards better CD playback or not.

I know this is only one aspect of music reproduction but I've personally heard the MSB setup at the Newport Audio show and no other room using PC playback came even close. I thought it was some kind of PC setup until it was pointed out that I was listening to a CDP.

All the best,
Nonoise