In Reply to: "I hear it" doesn't constitute proof. posted by Markw* on January 23, 2015 at 01:26:41:
But, again, if those differences are so apparant, how come nobody has ever convinced the world they are all that significant? After all, nobody disagrees that speakers sound different. Where's that proof?
Who cares?
Nobody has convinced the world that high end audio reproduction is a worthy pursuit. There's no point in trying to validate one's hobby with the rest of the world that doesn't care.
The only people whose opinions matter to me regarding audio are people who have heard what high end audio systems are capable of and who appreciate it enough to make it their pursuit and who can listen critically and then articulate the aspects of sound quality they are hearing.
There are plenty of people who pontificate about the audio hobby based on a simplistic model of audio reproduction who have never experienced really high fidelity systems, or who have but couldn't appreciate the difference. I do not care about these people's opinions on system building. Nor do I care what anybody thinks who isn't into this hobby.
A better example of religious belief in this hobby is clinging to the DBT. It is an experimental technique that has done nothing to advance the state of the art of audio reproduction. Successful researchers select experimental methods that provide new information and help them advance. Only a fool worships a method that brings no results.
Regarding the cable asylum rules, they would be unnecessary if everybody exercised simple forum etiquette. No hobby forum anywhere welcomes people who post there only to tell everyone their hobby is bullshit. It should be tolerable in small doses, but the cable forum had a history where it suffered from a few disruptive posters flooding the forum with the same pointless comments over and over.
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Follow Ups
- RE: "I hear it" doesn't constitute proof. - Dave_K 06:41:40 01/23/15 (17)
- FWIW: Agree with all that you said -t - Sordidman 09:37:59 01/23/15 (0)
- RE: "I hear it" doesn't constitute proof. - Markw* 07:25:37 01/23/15 (15)
- The intolerant dogma preacher accusing others of dogma - Sordidman 09:39:28 01/23/15 (8)
- Hey, you're free to believe what you want to believe. - Markw* 10:13:31 01/23/15 (7)
- You're the dictator, telling everyone that they can't hear - Sordidman 10:46:52 01/23/15 (6)
- No, you're the one telling them what they should hear. - Markw* 13:53:08 01/23/15 (5)
- Cite it, - copy & paste where I said it... Prove it!! LULZ -t - Sordidman 15:29:32 01/23/15 (4)
- Seems you can win $1million by proving you can discern a difference- contact James Randi...go for it! nt - kuribo 16:14:44 01/23/15 (1)
- C'mon boys: let's get together for a listening Par-Tay -t - Sordidman 16:38:35 01/23/15 (0)
- I'm a BIG believer in power cables NOW!....... - audiophile919 15:53:18 01/23/15 (1)
- Well then more power to ya. - Markw* 17:21:43 01/23/15 (0)
- Does "I see it" constitute proof? - genungo 09:36:12 01/23/15 (5)
- As many illusionists have proven, that's not necessarily so. - Markw* 10:11:48 01/23/15 (3)
- RE: As many illusionists have proven - genungo 10:59:47 01/23/15 (1)
- "How many illusionists do you think there are, lurking in the shadows waiting to fool us?" - Markw* 17:23:35 01/23/15 (0)
- "any many people hear things that aren't so" - Sordidman 10:48:58 01/23/15 (0)
- Exactly right...... - Sordidman 09:44:57 01/23/15 (0)