Audio-GD DI-2014 Reclocker, Any Good??

Yes. USB is the devil.

I have been saying this for so long it's untrue.

The Pi2AES doesn't accept stored files as far as I know.

If it did.......

Are timing issues audible? I think they are, and it's a point he makes when talking about the human sensitivity to this.

He actually says the video isnt about what people say is audible or not (below 100db etc) - attempting to avoid crap all over the comments section.

The video is about measuring what device does the job the best and i think that is what he trying to get across. He also says the cheapest device sounds the best.

He's a lot more savvy than you think Martin tech wise plus he actaully goes into really depth with his measurments unlike rabid dog squad.
While I also find some of the musings 'interesting' at least he is non agenderised and really does try and do the best he can, but I agree he lacks real world experiance but he understands this at least and does explain things for the layman to grasp in a good way

I think he is savvy, I thought that I pretty much said so. Of course he has an agenda, which is to make proper money from his Youtube channel. You won't do that by saying everything sounds the same. 

We'll see where he goes with his blind testing. Maybe he will uncover something of interest. I would like to see that, I just think it's unlikely. 

I have not specified 'electrically' measurable or otherwise. You can't measure musical 'talent' or 'soul' but you can certainly hear it. 

It's a closed minded approach to assume that at this exact moment in time we have nailed the science of measurements in general so I'd say it's much more likely that we have not.

I'm not really 'clinging' to anything to be honest, it's just what I think. Which is different, as your choice of phrase there imply's my argument is being eroded away by evidence to the contrary, it is/has not.

on the contrary human perception is highly unreliable, that's a demonstrable fact.

We perceive all sorts of things that have no basis in reality. That's why people are so certain they hear differences with the wackiest of tweaks, like crystals on the power cable. They aren't lying or making it up, they really do hear a difference, and so might you or I if we tried it.

once you accept one impossibility the rest come easy and pretty soon you're spending hundreds on magic fuses and saying the orange one is better than the blue. There's a point where that moves from harmless hobby/pastime experimentation to mental illness, not sure where that point is though.

well we do know but that's by the by.

I don't mind what people spend their money on but don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. 

If I can hear the difference by using a certain product, and you can't, who is wrong?
It is all about perception, hearing level/ability, system integration, system/room interface etc.
I don't think you can measure all of it. I don't have any measuring equipment available to me, but I know when I can hear a difference or not.
I don't need someone else to tell me it makes no difference. They can try, but it won't make any difference, as I do not think we can explain everything.

As always, if intrigued enough, I will try something, and if it does not work, it gets sent back or sold on.
It is that simple for me, although there are things I refuse to try, such as green pens on CD, crystals in a tube, wonder fuses etc.

It isn't measurable though is it, that's the point.

Forget measurements as an arbiter of how good something sounds.

If it pleases your ears, why is it wrong?
This hobby is all about enjoying the music for me, so that is all that counts.

Not sure where you are coming from with this show of hands thing?

Flaws in perception are not 'measurable' per se but they are demonstrable in controlled experiments. Sight, sound, taste, smell, touch are all fallible.

Descartes realised this and he was living back in 1500 and something. Much investigation has been done since, it's not really in any doubt that we can all be easily fooled. 

Just knowing you changed something will give the mind the cue to create a difference even if there is none. 

of course sometimes there really is a difference, but you have to used controls if you want to know for sure. That's not practical on a casual hobby basis I grant you but we should still take it into account before proclaiming that all sorts of improbable and impossible things are real 'because I heard them.'

I like to give my own subjective account of what I perceive and I enjoy reading other people's subjective accounts too. But once it strays into the realms of impossibility, or they start making wild technical claims that are purely  based on such  casual listening, that's  where I draw the line and start calling bullshit. that's when it moves into the realms of deception.

"Not sure where you are coming from with this show of hands thing?"

Have you never been to a demonstration, and the demonstrator asks for a show of hands which was preferred, number 1 or number 2, I have. Unsurprisingly I was in the minority, something like 3 to 24     Who was right and who was wrong, I suspect nobody since it is what the individual prefers.

OK boys and girls, ​

This is a forum for people to discuss what they HEAR.

NOW....here is the crux of the matter:

Placebos.

In studies, test groups that believed they were taking a "pioneering new medicine" achieved a higher % of people improving their condition.

Those that did not believe in the medicine, or were negatively receptive of the placebo actually showed a decline in condition.

That is the power of the mind. It is indisputable. I make no attempt to suggest otherwise.

Where HiFi is concerned, if i put a piece of equipment into my system, listen to it an adjudge it to improve the performance, increase my enjoyment of the system and the music being played....that's all that matters. I also want to be able to have a conversation about Cables, DDC's, DAC's, ANYTHING that people suggest makes no difference, without continually being told I'm imagining it and need to AB test it.

I don't agree with AB testing as the ONLY definitive method of comparison. It is bollocks.

There are other forums out there for that sort of approach for HiFi.

Measurements have their place. Absolutely they do. So does bias theory, Aural perception, cognitive ability and everything else this hobby encompasses, and i welcome discussion on any of those topics, But they do not exist to continually turn every single thread into a f@cking argument about AB testing and the theoretical limits of Audible Jitter.

To be honest, it's pissing me off, and i know it's pissing off other members too.

I understand what is being said. I understand that Publications are using Jitter as the new marketing hotbed (nothing new there)

I understand the theoretical standpoint of audible jitter and i also understand that in complete disregard of the science, the Mutec or other DDC's are having positive effects in peoples systems. The old adage of don't knock it until you have tried it applies here.

I also understand that macca made a very good point in regard to the marketing of the Mutec, in that whatever it is doing, it is unlikely to be the change to Jitter levels.

As far as i am concerned, no one has sufficiently disproved this, or proved WHY the Mutec works. But its irrelevant. It works, and i dont care why. It will make no difference to me whatsoever.

SO, just to be crystal clear:

This forum is for people to discuss what they hear. We are not here to tell people what they hear, or what we think they can or can't hear.

Give this A/B testing lark a rest....please.

Or i'll turn all the phrases into random words and your posts won't make any sense:

Example:

Jitter is inaudible past -100db

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Dogshit is inaudible past -100db