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In Reply to: RE: Video: The Distortion of Sound... posted by Jaundiced Ear on July 20, 2014 at 20:39:57
A few posts back, Barabajagal said: "Yet I'm not aware of anyone who has been able to demonstrate that they can reliably tell the difference between 16/44 and any higher resolution that you care to name."
Fair enough. I agree with you as far as that goes. However, from what little info I can find about The Audio Guild, it appears you sell speaker cables and interconnects. Have you been able to demonstrate that people can reliably tell the difference between your products and properly made but generic speaker cables and interconnects?
No, we haven't. But neither do we make any claims as to actual audible differences.
I'm one of among a relative few people I would call a "true subjectivist." I go by my own subjective experience, regardless of what my account for it (i.e. whether it be due to actual audibility or just in my head due to subjective biases). It doesn't matter to me because at the end of the day, the only reason I listen to reproduced music is for my own subjective pleasure and enjoyment.
I call myself a true subjectivist because I never attempt to pass off my subjective experience as anything more than that. Unlike others who would call themselves subjectivists, but go on to insist that their subjective experiences are some unerring reflection of an objective reality. In other words, they operate from the premise that if they subjectively perceive some difference, then it MUST be due to an actual audible difference. Mr. Lauck above is a good example of this.
I don't operate from such a premise because I know all too well how unreliable our subjective perceptions can be. And my ego isn't so overblown that my self-esteem is threatened by that fact. I don't deny and run away from my own humanity, I embrace it.
The people who cannot I do not consider to be true subjectivists. Their making objective claims without any objective evidence, I refer to them as "pseudo objectivists."
So that's the perspective I am coming from with respect to my business.
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"In other words, they operate from the premise that if they subjectively perceive some difference, then it MUST be due to an actual audible difference. Mr. Lauck above is a good example of this."
Whatever gave you the impression that I believe this? I'm not sure whether you are a fool or a troll trying to provoke controversy. In light of your post count, I suspect the latter.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Whatever gave you the impression that I believe this?
Because I've not seen you offer up anything else. And your truly laughable claim that mastering engineers are able to seize full control over their subconscious minds and rid themselves of all subjective biases as if they were Jedi knights or something.
I'm not sure whether you are a fool or a troll trying to provoke controversy. In light of your post count, I suspect the latter.
I had been a member here for over 14 years and with thousands of posts before I deleted my account earlier this year. I started this account recently because I wanted to defend a friend of mine who posts here.
Will you guys PLEASE get over yourselves and your positions.
Either of you, PLEASE, get on with a productive conversation!
:)
Well, you can't have a rational discussion with irrational people so I don't see much hope of a productive conversation. So I'll just bow out.
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