Hi-End audiophilia, myths, misinterpretations and...

[Karlos]

The problem with audiophiles is they have a propensity to believe the absurd. For example:

http://www.aaudioimports.com/ShowProduct.asp?hProduct=37

Gold plated fuses for your amplifier power supply... :roflmao:

Clean power is, of course, important, but this is taking the proverbial. Any decent power supply should have proper regulation and ripple elimination on the DC output side anyway, so in high end equipment, these cannot possibly make any difference. Audiophiles will swear otherwise, of course, but a properly controlled double-blind test would almost certainly prove them wrong.

[Karlos]

as promised, I didn't want to derail the thread any further, which is about the A1200 playing mp3's. So... in a nutshell to combat some of the statements:

I've moved the rest of the audiophile posts to this thread too. As the chronological order is maintained, that means it looks like Hell Labs started this thread but you might not worry about that