This is the essence of religion; ignorance and confirmation bias. [View all]

[AtheistCrusader]

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/hificritic/vol5_no3/listening_to_storage.htm

"The RAIDing of volumes could be the subject of a further investigation, to see if compounding disks may even exaggerate their audible signatures. For this initial study, we pulled out another Synology NAS unit, a DS211 two-bay box with two 2TB Western Digital RE4-GP 'green' disks set up in RAID 0. In other words, the two disks have data striped across both to augment performance. In the best case something like the sum of each individual drive's data throughput can be exploited, but at the risk of total data loss in the event of one disk expiring.

While this additional test was in no way scientific, we thought it would be worth finding out if this alternative NAS box/disk/RAID configuration offered anything different in our initial delve into the sonic differences of storage systems.

As it turned out, it was possibly the best sounding source yet. It could sustain pace and drive, and gave body and richness to music where the Kingston SSD, for example, had been heard as limpid and lightweight. Maybe higher frequencies still weren't as insightful as direct CD playback at its best, but the sound had a relaxed quality that this listener has found quite enticing enough to plan a migration of all music onto it — pending a test of other NAS combinations!"

There is zero difference between streaming 1's and 0's off one hard drive or another, beyond the speed the data is served up, and most systems can buffer the entire song in milliseconds. It is physically impossible for the sources to sound different.

But, people think it does. They do so for one of two reasons;

1. They don't know how it works at all, so they make it up as they go along.
2. They want to 'believe' regardless of any facts, because it gives them a sense of superiority, or justification for something. (Like spending 10k USD on a 10 meter cable that carries data just as well as a 5$ cable.)

Religion is ignorance, willful or genuine, backed up by confirmation bias. That's it.