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This is a joke right? "Penguin Café Orchestra's Union Café has an altogether more natural recorded acoustic. On Scherzo and Trio QNAP1 promoted the leading edg
by matthewmcg 12y ago
This is a joke right?
"Penguin Café Orchestra's Union Café has an altogether more natural recorded acoustic. On Scherzo and Trio QNAP1 promoted the leading edge piano transients, following through with a lighter, brighter instrument tone – possibly Steinway-like? The same piano had more lower mid body on QNAP2 and slightly softer hammer impact, perhaps more like a Bosendörfer.
That hint of glaze on QNAP1 also showed an impaired subjective noise floor elsewhere. In hi-fi parlance, QNAP2 had the blacker silences and deeper spaces between notes. If anything, this track highlighted a fundamental shift in timbre between the storage sources. This wasn't the gentle tweak of a DAC's digital filter option; we felt it was more akin to changing loudspeakers. System sound was improved as if the DAC itself had been upgraded, say from a £500 to a £2000 model."
- ultramancool 12y agoI can only assume this is a joke pointed at audiophiles, the sort who promote the 192khz/24 bit music. http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
- inetsee 12y agoMy first thought was that this post is making fun of people who pay thousands of dollars for audio cables.
- desdiv 12y agoI'm think this is yet another case of Poe's law at work. As far as I can tell, this was published in a bonafide audiophile magazine and that the authors were dead serious. Here are some skeptics discussing the article: http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/listening-to-digital-music-storage-devices http://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/listening-to-digital-music...
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoPoe's law.
- igrekel 12y ago"QNAP1 promoted the leading edge piano transients, following through with a lighter, brighter instrument tone – possibly Steinway-like? The same piano had more lower mid body on QNAP2 and slightly softer hammer impact, perhaps more like a Bosendörfer." I suspect just using an off the shelf hard drive would sound more like a Yamaha.