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Re: Sonic Placebos?

No, people do not usually hear what they want to hear, or I would be able to hear a symphony orchestra or jazz quartet in my living room, but I don't. There goes your first dismissive platitude. What I want to hear is a sound as close to the sound of a real orchestra as I can get, and if a 2" stack of dirty towels or phone books or dog shit made my stereo sound more like real violins or saxophones, then I would sure try to find out why and duplicate that property with something a little more attractive, although I can't imagine I could make it cheaper. Actually, phone books stacked on top of a D-200 is not a bad notion.

Tell me, Thomas: if a stack of dirty towels or gold or dog shit sounded better under your amplifiers, would you be willing to admit it? It seems that you have already dismissed the notion of vibration control by any means, and that any amount of evidence or testimony to the contrary will not sway you.

While it's true that electrons have so little mass that it's doubtful whether vibrations, even of such huge magnitude (relative to the size of an electron, anyway), would have any effect on the direction or orderliness of their flow, it can be reasoned that the violent (again, relative to their size) vibration of every element inside a complex device such as a typical stereo component would at least produce microscopic movement of the fields that these devices produce. This, in turn, would probably be powerful enough to disrupt the orderly flow of current through even a straight wire. Can it be measured? Probably, if only we had devices sensitive enough to detect such disruptions and took the time and proper methods to measure them. Such as our ears and careful listening.

Peace,
Tom E

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