In article , Steve Thackery
wrote:
Bob Latham wrote:

I've recently had an identical mp3 file on my synology NAS box and on a
data stick. Both of these files are accessible from my blu-ray player
which outputs the data as spdif to my AV8. They sound quite different.
Thinking this must be something to do with the way the BD is retrieving
the data I thought try another nas. So I downloaded some server
software for a PC and got my PC 'doing a NAS' with the same file.
Different again. The synology as far as I know is serving in the same
way as the PC UPNP? Something like that. The Synology has quite a bit
more bass than either of the other two. Not better but different and I
don't know why.

Bob, I don't believe you! I am NOT suggesting you are lying, but I AM
suggesting you are mistaken.


but he might have a gold plated oxygen-free cable in one of the signal
paths. Or a Russ Andrews' special somewhere.


I'd bet a week's wages that you could not hear any difference when the
tests were done scientifically - double-blinded, randomised, a
statistically valid sample size.

Of course, we'll never actually do that test, so my bet is moot. But I
am so confident in the laws of physics that I simply don't believe there
is any difference in the reproduced sound depending on whether it's
coming out of a NAS or a data stick. It's simply absurd.

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