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I know there are a lot of audiophiles who have good things to say about the Apple products.

Do they use a green marker on the edge of their iPhone too? Or tape Brilliant Pebbles to the headphone jack? What about the Blackbody? Just curious.

It isn't the chipset, it is the power coming into the computer. To really open up the sound you need one of these $4500 babies: http://www.lessloss.com/firewa...

Monster cables are crap. I buy only high-quality digital cables, and can't forget the power conditioner to remove "noise pollution" from my 60Hz AC power to "reveal hidden subtleties of the entire audio event as it eliminates the widespread negative effects of high frequency noise pollution" *bangs head on desk*

Monster cables are crap. I buy only high-quality digital cables, and can't forget the power conditioner to remove "noise pollution" from my 60Hz AC power to "reveal hidden subtleties of the entire audio event as it eliminates the widespread negative effects of high frequency noise pollution" *bangs head on desk*

and their WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is extraordinarily high

wtf?

$300 power cord containing $15 worth of parts:
http://gizmodo.com/371536/300-audiophile-grade-power-cable-is-really-worth-15

$1000 power cord on sale for a mere $750:
http://www.essentialsound.com/essence-power-cord/index.htm

$2000 power cord:
http://www.dedicatedaudio.com/inc/sdetail/125/24045

$695 cable for digital signals... that's right, a $700 S/PDIF cord:
http://www.lessloss.com/digital-cables-c-70.html?zenid=l5tu6jq73toh5mk09a315pkid0

Machina Dynamica. Oh man. I really wonder if the guy running this site even believes in his own products, or if he is gleefully exploiting the gullible. Products include "The Clever Little Clock" which seems to be an ordinary travel alarm clock with magical powers, "The Super Intelligent Chip" which not only improves the sound of your CDs, but does so permanently (by altering the structure of the CD in some hand-waving "quantum" fashion), his new product, "The Quantum Temple Bell", a decorated bell you walk around your house ringing and your audio sounds better, and my favorite "The Teleportation Tweak" where he calls you and plays magical tones through your phone, and your audio sounds better afterward.
http://www.machinadynamica.com/

steveha

LOL. This guy is great. I like this guy. How does it work? Well, it's a special box. It does special things to other boxes.

This guy takes the cake for audiophile horseshit:
http://www.lessloss.com/dfpc-signature-p-199.html
I bet you didn't know you needed a $1149 power cable to make your music sound better? The "how-it-works" section explains why you do (Noise always works from top down). This same guy has a lot of other products you should look at if you need a good laugh. The "blackbody field conditioner" is my personal favorite.

Sorry, but audiophiles generally ignore PC's for serious listning. There hasn't been a sound card invented yet that has the same quality of output as even mid-grade hi-fi stereo equipment. Sure, you folks that consider your Bose system "audiophile" quality won't understand this, but actual audiophiles will.

My credentials: I'm using a home-built First Watt F1 clone to drive my AKG K-1000, and a 41hz Tripath-based Amp5 to drive my Paradigm S2s. So I've got some experience in the field.

Having stated that, the older generation of audiophiles are ignoring PCs for serious listening, and at their peril. A high quality, stably clocked S/PDIF output connected to a high quality DAC will produce sound with precision that rivals any recorded "pure analog" setup (ie short of an amplified mic). I'm personally running a Lavry DA10 fed from an M-Audio Audiophile 24/192 in a balanced (XLR) config to my F1 clone. Playing properly ripped CD audio (or better), FLAC compressed, it sounds very, very good.

Take a look at Lessloss, Empiricle Audio and Lavry Engineering for some serious high quality PC audio gear.