Quote:
Originally Posted by Antonmb
Great post. Jitter is another great example: in the early days of CD, we didn’t know enough to measure jitter. CD was perfect in all the measurements of the day, yet people heard differences. If many people hear differences in cables, there are a couple of possibilities: either we’re all deluded (there are a lot of us, mass hysteria?) or some day some bright engineer will say, “Aha! That’s what we’ve been missing, we need to measure for xyz.”
|
That's another perfect example!
It's taken several decades of continued improvements in digital recording and playback technology to reach a level of performance that can now meet and in some aspects exceed the performance of analog playback. Such technical advancements require the use of gear and measurements which either didn't exist or were not initially of high enough resolution to differentiate shortcomings in performance which were easily heard by most critical listeners.