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In Reply to: "Only 1% Jim"? - (A reply to a posting by Jim Austin.) posted by May Belt on March 11, 2007 at 05:09:54:
I remember when my ex-girlfriend was making a Ph.D in psychology, every week she felt like she had a different mental disorder!! Lo and behold, it was the exact one she was studying in detail!I work in the pharma industry, placebo effect is a real effect and people do feel better...for a while. I am sure that your "treatments" effect the listener...just not permanently and with decreasing effectiveness over time...placebo effect.
I had another friend who was stressed and got some homeopathic "medicine" to reduce stress. For her it really worked, she took a tiny "pill" and she felt better. The ingredients of course were totally inert with no therapeutic benefit but she kept taking them anyway and "felt" better. When I saw that there was nothing actively harmful in them I just shut up and smiled and told her to go right ahead and take all she wanted...as many as she needed, which is exactly what the pharmacist told her.
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...but what makes you so sure that it is applicable to audio discernment to the degree so many are inclined to believe?
Why shouldn't it be if in all these other areas it is a quite prevalent and powerful force?? What makes you think its less in audio? The eye is a much more powerful tool and yet it is trivial to fool it...just watch a professional card sharp at work and just try to catch him fooling your eyes constantly. HOOOOWWWWWLLLLL!!! LOL!
Shifting gears a bit, to what degree does it affect one's enjoyment or perception of, say, Coca-Cola? Is it something to be afraid of? Or is it simply a little gremlin to account for when evaluating any given product?
I would say a not so little gremlin. It is easier to deal with if one is well grounded in what real unamplified music sounds like (ie. frequent live exposure) but still one must be on guard.
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Between raving meter readers on one side and raving psychobabble on the other this place has gone to the wolves, HOOOWWWWWLLLLL!!! Where is a guy with a foot in both listening and measuring to stand?? Why knee deep in the S*#^ from both raving lunatic sides.BTW, Mozart's 40th symphony sounds sublime right now!!! AAAAHHHHH!
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Oh sorry the last part of that one liner 180 degrees flipped polarity so maybe it didn't sound so good. LOL!!
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