A streamer is a device that gets digital audio streams from an online or local source and passes them on to a DAC. There are many devices that combine the streamer with a built-in DAC and then output just the analog signal for input to an amplifier or pre-amplifier. We will call these streamer-DACs. If they also have a power…
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This is a rather sophisticated topic that is based on a cool research paper from 2013 that examined human hearing. In our cochlea there may be shapes that allow for nonlinear processing of audio. If this is the case, so the hypothesis goes, then linear systems of measurement like Fourier Analysis may not be able to measure audio to the…