These large filters selection have a varying sound quality otherwise they wouldn’t have built-in the first place! With such a large variations which one actually sound the closest to the original performance? We don’t know, but I suspect these filters are trying to match the type of music contents out there. There’s more to come but we are getting there, which is good.
The same applies to pre-ringing. It is my understanding that there is little to no evidence that it is audible. I agree that it is better if it can be removed but why trade one supposedly inaudible problem for another.
Actually Jeff, I thought that the audibility of pre-ringing was pretty much consensus and non-controversial in audiophile/Hi-Fi circles!
If the consensus is non controversial in just audiophile/Hi-Fi circles, then that does not provide much substantiation. Audiophiles have been “hearing” digital playback artifacts since 1983.
http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/bas_speaker/abx_testing2.htm
AJ
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While we are discussing ringing, here’s another manufacturer’s opinion regarding Linear vs Minimum phase (which affects the ringing):
https://www.ayre.com/pdf/Ayre_MP_White_Paper.pdf
Minimum Phase being the default for Roon must also imply something:
It’s also interesting to count the votes for Linear and Minimum phase in this thread:
It’s been almost a day and nobody has posted about MQA. Has it become another failed format?
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all formats will fail. Audiophiles and the next big thing
Jaded palates. All a man really needs is an 8 track cartridge player with “Hooked on Classics” on continual play.
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yep and the wife is happy with the cute Bluesound pulse (2)
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now that we’ve created an MQA section, this thread can die.
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