Sorry folks, I read all the numbers and reviews, but I replaced my RME Dac in my main system with the cheapest 7 year old Chord Mojo, line out, I don't use headphones, portable or otherwise. Results: Significant sound improvement.
None of the above, just sharing my impressions, sorry I may be a Chordhead now, but I have great respect for Amir's evaluations, so if you don't mind I'll stick around.Welcome to ASR. You've made an unsupported assertion that most people in this science-oriented forum would disagree with. Please don't take the reactions as overtly hostile. Please do engage with the membership to find an objective, controlled method to support or discard your hypothesis. We'd love to have you, but if all you want is a) to fight or b) to have others cheerlead for your subjective views, I'd suggest you get out now.
Cleaner underwear?Sorry folks, I read all the numbers and reviews, but I replaced my RME Dac in my main system with the cheapest 7 year old Chord Mojo, line out, I don't use headphones, portable or otherwise. Results: Significant sound improvement.
Sorry folks,
Results: Significant sound improvement.
The food tastes better when it is served on fine china.
After working several years in a high end store, if you will allow the term, we knew how to match equipment and were well aware of witch sounded best, all this without the benefits of test equipment, we knew when we made a bad demo and we knew when everything jelled and sounded exceptionally good. Reviewing a piece of borrowed equipment and then going on to the next relying on numbers and graphs, is credible and very helpful. Long term ownership and listening can also lead to credible and useful information. Marketing is altogether different, I use ATC monitors and Yamaha NS 1000 neither are marketing champions or guru influencers. The term Science seems to be a bit over used when referring to Audio: there has been very little improvement in analogue sound reproduction in the last 60 years. Digital audio is an after thought, not a quality pursuit, and the onset goal was convenience.No need to apologise.
I don't doubt you heard an improvement. However, I guess you are aware of the problem of sighted listening being influenced by cognitive biases.
What checks have you done to convince yourself that the improvement you hear comes from differences in the output of the Chord DAC compared with the RME rather than these cognitive biases changing your perception of two identically performing DACs?
I'm happy if you simply say nothing/you don't care. That is fine, and up to you. But in that case of course you won't be convincing anyone that the Chord performs any better than the RME.
there has been very little improvement in analogue sound reproduction in the last 60 years.
I'm well aware what sounds best too, I know my 24bit/96khz lossless files sound noticeably cleaner, crisper, more detailed and spacious than their high-bitrate lossy AAC compressed counterparts.After working several years in a high end store, if you will allow the term, we knew how to match equipment and were well aware of witch sounded best, all this without the benefits of test equipment, we knew when we made a bad demo and we knew when everything jelled and sounded exceptionally good. Reviewing a piece of borrowed equipment and then going on to the next relying on numbers and graphs, is credible and very helpful. Long term ownership and listening can also lead to credible and useful information. Marketing is altogether different, I use ATC monitors and Yamaha NS 1000 neither are marketing champions or guru influencers. The term Science seems to be a bit over used when referring to Audio: there has been very little improvement in analogue sound reproduction in the last 60 years. Digital audio is an after thought, not a quality pursuit, and the onset goal was convenience.