Originally Posted by VirusKiller
4) Apodizing vs. non-apodizing upsampling. In my opinion, this depends very much on source material. The human hearing system evolved to be sensitive to the smallest nuances in a natural (live) acoustic. It is logical, therefore, that material recorded in a live environment, rather than unnaturally "produced" in a recording studio, stands to gain the most from apodizing.
I am always coming back to this reading the forum, that virtually no-one says what their reference recordings are, or those which they are using for the testing being described. While we are mostly after the same thing (accuracy), that we are using such different music and recordings muddies the water.

Originally Posted by Carl
playing the usual bunch of CDs tracks, I always seem to gravitate to when doing listening tests
So Carl, can you name the names?

Originally Posted by Carl
The Control15 has both upsampling and apodizing support but surprisingly always outputs PCM and not MHR.
Did any Sooloos component ever output MHR? Perhaps it was too far down the wishlist to make it into the Control 15? Or perhaps it would take away from ID40 sales?

Originally Posted by VirusKiller
The data transmitted over ethernet/Cat5 are time independent.
Ah grammar! Ah Latin!

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