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In Reply to: Certainly your complaints apply to sighted auditions ... if they get "null" results posted by Richard BassNut Greene on August 11, 2003 at 10:32:00:
This is ALL about ego, on both sides.I agree completely that is amazing to read posts/reports where a person claims to "hear" the sound of a single component in a completely unfamiliar system and room; it's a complete impossibility. Much of what is claimed for audio equipment is clearly BS.
However, there are clearly people who are threatened by the "golden ear" crowd, as described in your post, and those people have an irrational need to "prove" that the golden ears can't hear what they say they hear.
I believe that the only way forward is to remain open to the obvious notion that we do not know all there is to know about audio reproduction, and look for the repeatable correlations between engineering choices and listening observations.
BTW, IMO most of the "can't hear a difference" crowd has permanently blown their credibility based on their moronic claims a few years ago that it was not possible to hear differences in digital transmission media, even though there are (and always were) clear engineering reasons why there would be differences. How many "I'm a EE, it's just 1s and 0's; it can't possibly sound different" posts have we all seen... Most of them couldn't find the PLL at the end of a digital cable...
That's NOT a null result, and is therefore statistically useful; they were flat out wrong!
Peter
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Follow Ups
- RG, you've hit the real issue... - Commuteman 10:14:28 08/13/03 (6)
- Double-blind test of Mini-disc and CD - Richard BassNut Greene 09:19:01 08/18/03 (5)
- Wait a minute! This means.. - Commuteman 14:49:09 08/18/03 (4)
- Can't get from here ... to there - Richard BassNut Greene 13:11:27 08/19/03 (3)
- You can't have it both ways - Commuteman 13:38:44 08/20/03 (2)
- Comparing your system today with its sound quality five years ago -- you must have a great memory! - Richard BassNut Greene 09:24:18 08/22/03 (1)
- I think we just reached the point of absurdity... - Commuteman 09:26:12 08/25/03 (0)
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