Several technical people on this thread have offered some of the possible technical explanations like this:īut as far as I can tell, the technical people who believe iTunes sounds the same as Amarra haven't addressed these arguments. What you're saying is that there is no room for a future technical explanation for this difference many people hear. And even then, I wouldn't be 100% sure that I had accounted for everything that's going on in these complex systems. You're right that I could try to assure myself of whether or not it's possible for Amarra to sound better than iTunes if I devoted myself to a thorough understanding of all the possible issues involved in computer playback of music: software-induced jitter, CoreAudio's effect on audio streams, computer-generated RF interference, data transfer to the DAC, and the possible interaction of all these things.īut that would take up a lot of time I'd prefer to use doing music. He said there was a technical basis for this. He was convincing because he had a technical explanation having to do with CoreAudio's shortcomings. Well, that may be your cognitive bias regarding how his advice affected me (notice how easy it is to use the cognitive bias argument for anything, including refuting your argument about it). In all likeliness, yes!* That's the whole point. *Unless of course there was (may I say undesirable) in-app post processing turned on or a sample rate mis-match preventing iTunes or whatever app from producing "bit-perfect" playback. What's interesting here is that you're calling upon the opinion of someone that you perceive to be an authority on the matter in order to refute the possibility that cognitive bias could be clouding your judgement, when actually, that person's opinion and how highly you hold it in your esteem is contributing to your own perceptual distortion. How highly one is regarded in a particular field, or how many grammies/platinum records one has collected changes nothing to this fact. It is inherent to the way the human brain processes information. No one is immune to the effects cognitive biases. I guess he also must be suffering from cognitive bias.Well. And by the way, I was turned on to Amarra by a very highly-regarded mastering engineer who has many famous albums to his credit and knows a hell of a lot about digital audio.
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