andy_c Wrote: > Actually, Kurt was quoting me in the referenced article, using quotation > marks instead of the QUOTE tags. > > Certainly, this change can do no harm and costs nothing. However, > claiming something makes a big difference in sound, and saying it does > no harm are two different things. What I was satirizing was the > audiophile bandwagon effect. That is, someone draws a conclusion based > on an uncontrolled experiment. Then others, not wishing to be called > "tin-eared" by saying they hear no difference, also chime in with their > agreement, again based on uncontrolled experiments. If you go back to > the beginning of the thread, the original claim of an improvement was > based on changing two things at once - setting both the digital and > analog attenuations. One change affects the digital output data > directly, and the other does not. The claims of improvement will cause > an expectation bias in the experiment, so to get an unbiased picture > requires a test method that removes expectation bias. > > I have no issue with people going with what works for them, based on > uncontrolled subjective experiments. I do this myself with my own > system all the time. But there is a difference between saying "X works > for me" and saying "X is true". The difference is that people will > claim these results to be some kind of indisputable fact when no > controlled experiments have ever established that. The idea is that > once an assertion has been repeated often enough, it is considered to > be true, regardless of the facts of the matter. This phenomenon is > known rather harshly as the "big lie theory".
Since the above is a general discussion there really is no need to spam every single thread about a possible improvement with this kind of stuff. And, no, I don't think many here claim any kind of "indesputable facts". I reassess my system and its various chosen solutions all the time. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26332 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
