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RE: Dude , you are as convoluted as Jonathan's Swift's Laputans

Posted by Steve Eddy on September 17, 2007 at 12:34:23

In Reply to: Dude , you are as convoluted as Jonathan's Swift's Laputans posted by tonemanic on September 17, 2007 at 07:35:30:

sometime a postulate helps you form an action plan, or just get some conceptual grip on your subject..

Sure. But the postulate is typically based on some line of reasoning rather than being an end to itself. Otherwise you may as well postulate that your system sounds different depending on what the exchange rate is between the dollar and the euro.

these aren't eternal truths that we're sweating here, only idea that may point us in the direction of making better stuff...

But does it?

That rather depends on how you're defining "better." If you mean "better" in a purely subjective sense, then what's the point of presenting an objective postulate?

And having started out with an objective postulate, and given the potential ambiguities of subjective listening, the latter in and of itself does not necessarily prove the former. So again, what's the point of presenting an objective postulate in the first place?

And even if we were to simply bury our heads in the sand and ignore the potential for ambiguities due to subjective listening and just assume that what's subjectively perceived is an accurate reflection of the physical reality, how does this even prove your postulate?

Let's say the gooped up outlets sound different from the stock outlets. Was it due to the changing of mechanical resonances as you postulate? Or was it perhaps due to something else? Say, the dielectric effects of the goop. Or maybe even some combination of the two. Or maybe something else completely.

How would you know? And at the end of it all, what have you truly learned?

The way I see it, all you can possibly know is whether or not you subjectively prefer a gooped up outlet to a non-gooped up outlet. And this can be done without having to present any sort of postulate let alone an objective one.

So what's the point? Why not just say "Hey, I put some goop in an outlet and it sounded better"?

se

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