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In the Thread: Digital Volume Control self-assessment

Post Subject: Here we go again.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/9/2009

tuga wrote:
I should have added that this explanation refers to volume control by software and it's probably the worst case scenario.

Tuga, any digital volume control is software based. This defines the nature of the digital volume controls

coops wrote:
Lets examine the facts on the one hand a very well respected engineer who has spent his life working in the digital domain, who has just been voted a member of the AES, on the other a puffed up ,over opinionated buffoon. Who are you going to believe!

Keith, I know it is difficult to understand for the people like you – for whom the objectives of audio concentrated only upon the efforts to create a publicity noise and then to sell goods while the people are still affected by the noise. No one deprives Daniel Weiss from his position of authority however. I know the man personally, met him, very much like him and do respect his views. However, you need to understand that Daniel Weiss like anyone in this world has a mortgage and has a need to buy food. His ability to make leaving is contingent upon the people of your trade sell his devises. But the people like you are too primitive to understand the subject or invent the subject – there are a lot of damn sale people around there – so the hi-fi industry relay upon the network of reviewing idiots who develops for sale personnel and mostly ignorant public some rudimental tailing points, pre-selling the notions, concepts and assessment results. Pay attention that they do not pre-sell the rightness but they pre-sell what is imidetaly beneficial for them to move. It would be like you explain to your 5 year old son the notion of gravity – it will be BS but good enough in order to satisfy his curiosity now and until he will ask next time when grow up.

However, Daniel Weiss is not too deep in hi-fi industry; he is mostly in pro-audio industry. He does not relay too much upon the public reviews – the pro-audio has own distribution method. For the hi-fi consummates Daniel Weiss personally is quality outspoken and he perfectly capable to stratify/partition his knowledge and to delegate it in the format that he feel is necessary for him. In your case - the lightweights with not too much own integrity or familiarity on the subject it is all the necessary to make you motivated.

Anyhow, to propose you to listen youssef is not a good idea as you have no interest about sound. If you would like to print the given Daniel Weiss papers as your marketing material, as the “prove” then go ahead – it was written for YOU with this exact objective. Still, if you would like to go to a core of the subject then look further. It might not be too beneficial for your sale but at least going to internet chartrooms and demonstrating you wisdom you will not sound so idiotic.

The Cat

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