OT Audiophiles, was:[sdiy] Digital filtering (Oversampling and downsampling)

[Paul Anderson]

On 5-Aug-09, at 12:22 PM, Graham Atkins wrote:

> Ingo,
>
> I've seen similar caps also having "hand soldered  
> leads".......Again, why would that make them
> superior ? The only thing I can think of is that being "hand made"  
> means they are watched at every
> stage of the process, but what percentage of machine produced caps  
> fail ?.
>


Far fewer than handmade caps, I'll tell you that much:)  The rate of  
bad caps is exceedingly low.  But we've seen similar nuttiness from  
the audiophile world.  What about pear cables?  I've seen audiophiles  
fret for hours about matching the impedance of their speaker cables,  
completely ignoring the fact that the impedance varies wildly at audio  
frequencies.  I think everyone here has heard of the $500 wooden  
volume knob as well.

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