Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

@Velocio
You seem to be strongly agreeing with me in that mastering and production is where audio quality is defined. I understand the concept of noise floor pretty well, thanks. I didn’t include it as i didn’t think anyone was seriously suggesting that converting a stored file to a bitstream introduces actual noise artefacts. For clarity, as @Dramatic_Hammer already said, it doesn’t.

Next point. I said, and you replied:

When being mastered, most devices in the studio containing an ADC will have their clocks synchronised

No-one sets up their studio with any of that stuff in mind.

But then you also go on to say

so long as the word clocks are synchronised everything can be lined up just fine.

So we also agree that during production it’s important that clocks are synchronised, yes? Good 😀

Finally:

There are some areas I'll defer to you on, but this one where you specifically stated "most music is produced on a Mac mini / iMac"? Nah, you're talking out of your arse quite loudly.

This is a bit ungracious IMO. I’ve already conceded that in my original post I made my point a bit glibly.