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In Reply to: So you agree! posted by markrohr on February 15, 2007 at 10:19:13:
Real audiophiles always claim to hear a difference.If they don't, they will be called Tin Ears and told they have a Mid-Fi stereo. You could look it up.
It's not possible to know something about a product and then be completely neutral during an audition.
Maybe a Vulcan from Star Trek could do that, but not humans.
The fact that you are auditioning a component already suggests you walked in with a positive opinion about it.
Just asking a salesman to hear a specific component is a statement about yourself as an audiophile, and that statement means you want the component to sound good.
But the opinion you have AFTER the audition may have absolutely very little to do with the positive opinion you came in with.
That's because so many auditions are not done at home -- the room and every other component will be different when listening in a store, or at a friend's house.
Therefore any opinion about a component auditioned outside of your home ... is almost meaningless.
True if the component was a speaker, the mid-range and treble output in a store would be similar to what would be heard at home.
But the bass would be quite different in a different room.
Any audition of an AC cord is meaningless because AC cords have no effect on the amplitude response and timing of the sound waves we hear.
They could only affect hum and RFI ... if those problems had been audible (rare).
Auditioning an A/C cable in an audio store is the silliest thing I've ever heard about audio.
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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Follow Ups
- "audiophiles sometimes hear no difference at all." (I never hear those words because real audiophiles never say them) - Richard BassNut Greene 07:55:15 02/16/07 (1)
- So close and yet . . . nt - markrohr 09:54:19 02/16/07 (0)
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