Posted 09/03/2008 at 01:42:28am

You should tell that to Greg Calbi. I'd believe him over you anyday. The quality of the wire does matter. That's not to say that EXPENSIVE wire will always sound better. Its to say QUALITY wire will sound better.

Posted 09/03/2008 at 01:38:35am

Haha. Oh yeah. You're an expert... NOT.

 It's not bullshit.  You're an ignoramus.

 "Any cheap PC CD drive will retrieve every last bit of every CD, barring bad scratching etc."

 You see the devil is in the details. Data discs are VERY different to audio discs. When you read a data disc in a pc cd rom, there is a thing called a checksum, and if it doesn't match, the sector is read and re-read until they do (or it fails). Thus a data disc will read perfectly, or not at all.

However, ripping an audio CD is a totally different task. It suffers from something called "jitter", and it DEFINATELY affects the quality of the sound. A trained ear and top gear is needed to hear it (the gear used in this test is ANYTHING but top shelf). Look jitter up. Have a look at the Plextor mastering drives, and their different error rates.

And you should stop pretending to knoweverything and realise you have a lot to learn. Believe me. I've been an Audio Engineer for over a decade now. The equipment used here will not reveal the difference. It is simply not good enough. They are dynamic headphones FFS, so you are looking at a good 20dB roll of from about 15kHz at least. So you are losing all the fine detailed high frequency information where you REALLY CAN TELL the difference between compressed tracks and uncompressed tracks.

 All this test proves is the equipment they used is unable to resolve the subtle differences between the tracks.