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RE: Response to both Gusser and TK

Posted by Triode_Kingdom (A) on January 22, 2015 at 20:22:57

In Reply to: Response to both Gusser and TK posted by Lew on January 22, 2015 at 16:14:52:

"But I thought we've agreed it's OK to say "A sounds better than B, and I don't claim to know why"."

I don't have a problem with that. But if you say something like, "A sounds better than B, and both my intellectual capacity and my audio gear are superior to yours because I build this way," well, that's a different story. Claims like that - which are being heard here ad nauseum from a few individuals - really do demand that their authors either provide credible real evidence to support the statement or shutup. And just so there's no confusion on this point, I'm NOT referring to the methodology by which one tests equipment. I'm talking about claims that a certain design philosophy is superior to all others. Personally, I'm sick of it, more so as the authors of the technique seem wholly unable to couch their arguments in physical terms and are clearly neither trained nor qualified as designers.

"there in fact are known and measurable differences ... I do not claim to know that there is any connection ... we seldom have such proofs available to us in audio."

But we have many proofs regarding the audibility of numerous measurable qualities and quantities - things like noise, frequency response, distortion of various types and more. It's always possible that we might be generating certain aberrations not open to adequate measurement, but that's where blind A-B testing serves its purpose. Refusing to do either, then pummeling the group with claims that you're a hot-sh*t equipment designer, is useful to no one. I'm obviously not referring to you here, everyone knows who's doing this.

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