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In Reply to: RE: You presume facts not in evidence, especially those concerning me. posted by briggs on July 20, 2015 at 19:51:48
...Alan's original post is yet another attack on perfectionist audio naysayers (objectivists). Since the "discovery" of the Weyl fermion will most likely have no direct effect on the pursuit of perfectionist audio for the foreseeable future, his citation of it seems to be both a red herring and allegorical. The real intention of the post appears to be an attempt at increasing the legitimacy of the subjective and fringe aspects of perfectionist audio.
Personally I find attempts such as this to co opt real science into support for fringe audio concepts clumsy and unconvincing.
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I agree with you. Despite his denial, this effectively is what he is doing, and he seems very serious about it.
If you are going to venture into this realm you should be prepared for a certain amount of skepticism. Lightening it with attempted humor may be a friendly gesture. That was my intent.
I can enjoy an article about particle physics in context, but on the whole would rather listen to Mozart without being concerned about what bosons and fermions might be doing in my system. My poor understanding of the activity of electrons seems to suffice.
Au contraire....I'm encouraging it. The fact of another discovery gives me hope that additional knowledge will lead to more testing that explains many of the nuances many of us experience with high-quality music playback.
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| The fact of another discovery gives me hope that additional knowledge will lead to more testing that explains many of the nuances many of us experience with high-quality music playback.
That's not the takeaway message.
The takeaway message was that predictions from theoretical physics about electronic systems are very advanced.
Therefore we should listen to those same predictions when they concern substantially more mundane and well-tested domains of experimental science.
I am optimistic, too, that our understanding of phenomena is still progressing and that, eventually, it will also help us understand and perfect audio technology as well.[Our understanding of brain science is also being revolutionized. So, I think DBT testing will be thoroughly discredited as well.]
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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." - Camus
So, I think DBT testing will be thoroughly validated as well. Could go either way dontcha think?
OTOH, the brutal reality is that perfectionist audio neither warrants nor attracts the level of basic research necessary to settle this issue. So what we're left with is faith .
...actually what we are left with is our observations.
Faith requires none.
...or experience and knowledge.Not necessarily universal - may just be for my own use.
What color is the border of this box while you are typing in it?
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No, I actually think that they will be able to wire electrodes to our brain and be able to identify all the variables at work in our subconscious.
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