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In Reply to: "Hi-Fi sense of direction" -- New Scientist on speaker cables, the same magazine that... posted by clarkjohnsen on February 16, 2007 at 09:57:00:
" However, ...Hi-Fi News magazine has an article that states as cold hard fact: "All cables - yes all cables - have signal directionality... in one direction the sound is slightly louder, has lower distortion, is cleaner, smoother, sweeter, has deeper bass and overall wider dynamic range."And because New Scientist asks for some proof of these claims, they are allowing their political prejudices to color their stance? It would seem that, at the least, "slightly louder" and "lower distortion" are items that could be shown to be true or false by simply showing us the data. Yet, you seem to think that asking for proof of these claims is akin to political posturing.
You are one weird dude, Clark. And, clearly, not half so clever as you like to portray yourself.
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Clark thinks he is sooooooooo clever ... that half as clever would not be so bad.Perhaps you meant one-third as clever?
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Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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And how exactly did I portray myself as "clever"? Where do you see me saying, "Clever Little Clark", huh? huh?Your own post contains several other errors as well:
"And because New Scientist asks for some proof of these claims..." No, they smugly smirked.
"You seem to think that asking for proof of these claims is akin to political posturing." No, I said that NS lets its politics and its *prejudices* color their columns; my example was clearly of the latter sort.
> > I said that NS lets its politics and its *prejudices* color their columns; my example was clearly of the latter sort. < <Well, I guess asking for evidence does show a prejudice of sorts.
You've determined that ALL wire (including wire grounded at both ends) is directional?"And because New Scientist asks for some proof of these claims... No, they smugly smirked."
Here on Earth most of us recognize the sentence below as a request for proof, which of course was denied by the claimant.
"Some of these parameters are scientifically measurable, so we tracked down the writer of the article, who also happens to be in the business of selling cables, and asked him if he could cite any statistically significant results of listening tests and electrical measurements."
"No, I said that NS lets its politics and its *prejudices* color their columns; my example was clearly of the latter sort."
Wow, what an astounding display of *prejudice*! How dare a publication for/about science ask for something resembling test results to prove claims. Surely a respected mag like New England Journal Of Medicine wouldn't be so prejudiced as to ask for test results proving the claims of a pharmaceutical company.
Again, Comedy Channel beckons.
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