[quote user="mbee"] @Electrified : that's one of the reasons why there is no blu ray on Mac (but the main one is called Steve Jobs) : as OSX is based on an open-source UNIX kernel, BD protections were avoiding it... (but BD is already cracked) [/quote] I call Bollocks! If it's not possible to have copy protection on Macs because OSX

[quote user="mbee"] By nature, Spotify can not be as open as your description... Why? Just because if it was open, it would take only 1 minute to write a bit of code allowing to download a song via Spotify. [/quote] That can't be right. Your argument seems to suggest that open source can't be safe or have protected contents.

I'm not sure what you mean by "future" digital speakers. The BL5s are digital in that they have a DAC in them. Or do you mean other speakers that may come with a DAC in the future? I mean, such as some DAC'd BL9s? I'm with you on the useability front, but I hesitate to use Apple as an example, because it's quite the closed

[quote user="TripEnglish"] You like to hear yourself talk. The internet is glad to have you. [/quote] If all else fails: Maybe ad hominems will do

[quote user="TripEnglish"]Not true. Sorry. The less input from amateurs the better. [/quote] Noone said focus groups should consist of "amateurs", nor that everything the focus group says should be done, should be implemented. As I said, it's a tool. You know, just like B&O uses "listening panels" which, if anything

[quote user="soundproof"] If Henry Ford had used focus groups, he would have tried to breed a faster horse, instead he built a car. [/quote] Sounds true, but it's a logical fallacy: He would only have tried to breed faster horses if focus groups stood as the sole tool in the box. No serious manufacturer/designer uses focus groups as their

Nvm. I accidently responded to the last two posts on page 1. What a glorious day it's been so far, lol.

Sort of. It throughly depends what you have: The mentioned 20W amp into passive speakers is a bad choice. Active speakers with big enough amps not to clip and distort(too much) is the way to go. When your hearing goes, it becomes difficult to sit in a noisy place and hear what the person across the table is saying. Some of that is of course the way

Er, I figured I needed to explain my last post: The amplitude response of ears, as shown by Fletcher/Munsen, is concentrated in the 300-3kHz band, which is where the fundamentals of our voice is. The top end is where intelligibility comes in. The top end is where it matters because it is here we're able to differentiate what is being said/heard

Not to rehash the argument, but someone being actual partial deaf has more benefits of a system with less distortion than one with excellent hearing. Numbers may be geeky, but they're much better than "feelings" and "beliefs".