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Wires & Scientific Research

Posted by thetubeguy1954 (A) on January 27, 2010 at 10:34:25

As I've been conversing about the audibility of wires and why measurements aren't detecing the differences some audiophiles hear, on a few different forums for some time now. I've noticed the discussion/debate/arguement time and time again eventually turns to where a proponent of the audibility of wires will usually state: The reason the various measurements don't detect the differences we hear is because these measurements are either insufficiently precise or else they're measuring the wrong things.

Inevitably when this type of suggestion is made, one of the opponents of the audibility of wires will typically imply making such a statement is irrational by stating something similar to this: For the rational, there is not much point making up or creating new measurements without something being wrong with the long accepted (by the technically literate) old ones.

So my questions are:

1) Why is it irrational to search for another scientific reason why the proponents of the audibility of wires are hearing differences "if" the measurements being used aren't detecting the differences some audiophiles hear?

2) Does true rational, scientific research stop all research into an unresolved issue when the issue isn't resolved via the current scientific tests and/or measurements they're using or do they continue to look for other alternative methods, reasons tests and/or measurements, in an attempt to resolve the issue?

3) Isn't the irrational view the one that proposes there is not much point making up or creating new tests or measurements without something being found wrong with the long accepted old ones, when it's quite possible there's absolutely nothing wrong with "the long accepted old ones" except for the the fact that they are not testing/measuring the correct things? For Example: A blood pressure test which is a long accepted and scientific test but, it wouldn't reveal if I had cancer. Detecting cancer required making up or creating new tests and/or measurements, even though the long accepted old blood pressure tests remained valid!

Isn't making up or creating new tests or measurements precisely what Einstein did? Afterall Einstein didn't disprove Newton's laws. He just showed that they were not complete. That's what proponents of wires are claiming. They don't find a problem with Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory. They simply believe the measurements being used on wires are either insufficiently precise or else they're measuring the wrong things, period. They're asking that more research be done and the opponents stop claiming either 30 years of DBTs have proved there are no differences to be heard or todays tests and measurements are sufficient!

I remember when I was much younger the scientists back then believed dinosuars were slow, stupid, lumbering beasts, not the swift, agile, intelligent predators we know them to be today! This change came because scientists didn't stop researching dinosaurs. Just imagine where the world would be today if these great scientists Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, James Joule, Louis Pasteur, Bernhard Riemann, Joseph Clerk Maxwell, Werner Von Braun and Albert Einstein all believed there is not much point making up or creating any new tests and measurements without something being found wrong with the long accepted old ones first!

Thetubeguy1954

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