Back in the prehistoric past of digital audio everything mattered. A lot. How you ripped a CD, how you transferred the data, how you stored the data, and how you retrieved that data.
It all sounded remarkably different.
I would put forth the notion that today, with the advent of streaming and the introduction of well designed interfaces like the AirLens, what once made a big sonic difference barely applies anymore.
What's interesting about this observation is that all along it was somewhat of a mystery as to why identical bit-for-bit files could possibly sound different. A FLAC file is lossless yet, for many years, FLAC files sounded different than WAV files.
And then they didn't.
As we work to remove those differences in processors, noise, and timing related errors with gateway products like the AirLens, we're getting closer and closer to building perfect systems.
Given some recent auditions of new technology we're experimenting with we still have quite a way to go, but then a journey of 1,000 miles begins with one step.
