Audiophile Snake Oil
Audiophiles live in the wild west. $495 will buy an "audiophile fuse", $10,000 will buy a set of "audiophile speaker cables". A top-of-the line po...
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Audio Myth - "Damping Factor Isn't Much of a Factor"
Myth - "Damping factor isn't important" Myth - "A damping factor of 10 is high enough" Myth - "All amplifiers have a high-enough damping factor" Wh...
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Audio Myths - The Ultimate "Myth Buster" Video - Monty Montgomery, Xiph.Org
Monty Montgomery takes us into the lab and uses a series of simple demonstrations to bust some very common myths about digital audio. Test your kno...
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Audio Myth - Balanced Headphone Amplifiers are Better
Benchmark does not offer balanced headphone outputs on any of its products. The reason for this is that a voltage-balanced interface serves no usef...
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Audio Myth - "Switching Power Supplies are Noisy"
In audio systems, switching power supplies can be much quieter than linear power supplies. The secret to this difference is hidden in the magnetic ...
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Audio Myth -"DSD Provides a Direct Stream from A/D to D/A"
This myth goes something like this: "DSD provides a simple and direct digital path between the A/D and D/A, and DSD is simpler than PCM" - False! ...
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Audio Myth - "24-bit Audio Has More Resolution Than 16-bit Audio"
This myth goes something like this: "Analog audio has infinite amplitude resolution." "Digital audio is limited to a finite number of steps." "24-b...
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