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In Reply to: RE: "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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"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
So, they don't like people asking uncomfortable questions they can't answer with scientific testing and logic? That's why they need to be segregated into their own no-go zone?
So be it. Whatever it takes to keep the peace. Let the beheadings begin!
Personally, I'll trust my own ears and keep my opinions to myself unless, of course, I form a cult with like minded zealots and we can stroke each others egos. ...and then we can proselytize to the rest of the world until some kind person offers us refuge. where no discouraging words are allowed.
oh the hypocrisy.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
It's just when you propose to tell others what they should believe, or hear, that problems arise.
something......
Worse, - you're calling them liars.
You're like the Catholic church, if you just looked into Galileos telescope, - you'd see that the sun does NOT revolve around the earth. Except in this case, you're one of the lone reactionaries, (with your eyes closed, and your fingers in your ears: singing LALALALA).
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
That makes you the Taliban. so, whose the real dictator here?
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"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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try it! you know you want to!
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"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Just my opinion but I think power cables can make a HUGE difference in a system!.. Look at my review over on the cable forum here...
Now I have some idea how much weight I can put in your posts.
Edits: 01/23/15
I wonder, has anyone in the history of mankind ever used "scientific testing" to ascertain that the *next step* (the step just below the one they're presently standing on in a stairwell) is actually there as it appears to be? Or, do they tend to keep on climbing or descending in faith-based manner?My point is: Nobody bothers to test everything their senses report to them because, most of the time, we can indeed trust our senses. It's only after some crazy person *sees* the step that isn't there and walks into an open stairwell that the "scientific inquiries" might begin...
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And many people hear things that aren't so, also.
Asylums are full of them. (see what I did there? ;))
How many illusionists do you think there are, lurking in the shadows waiting to fool us?
Anything's possible, I guess...
Experience tells us that certain things are more likely than others are and that our senses can indeed be trusted, for the most part.
Dunno. Count the hi-bux ads in any number of audio magazines. ;)
How do you know?
Where you there with them, not hearing something that they did?
Do you feel the same way about your sense of sight?
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
One of the things that I've learned in my Philosophy of Science studies is that you can't "prove" that the wall exists, but you have to behave as though it does. This leads us to the truth that our branch of chimp-hominids still have a lot to learn, and that there are different degrees of "proof." I think sometimes that people get really confused between what they call science, and the application of the scientific method.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
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