CFP Wrote: > You're right. Perhaps one day science can tell us how computers work.
Science can explain how a computer works because it's relatively easy to figure out. The problem comes when some scientists become arrogant, probably as a result of fear or insecurity, and claim that something is impossible because they themselves cannot explain it. These scientists are more interested in holding onto their own views rather than learning about subtle and difficult-to-measure phenomena such as acoustics and the way audio data is affected by its travel from source to speaker. So we have claims such as, "cables/speakers can never 'break in'," "cables cannot sound different when oriented in one direction rather than the other," "a good MP3 cannot be distinguished from a CD because the frequencies removed from the CD to make the MP3 are not audible," and many more that slip my mind right now. I'm not saying any of these statements aren't true, rather that the notion that they *cannot* be true simply because current science (or a given scientist) cannot explain them is ridiculous. Furthermore, scientists who are not audiophiles and refuse to expand their views to include disciplines they are not familiar with, often do not recognize subtle aspects of sound that almost every audiophile can hear easily. They are scientists-in-name-only, because they're afraid to admit that the current state of science can't measure or explain something. -- JohnnyLightOn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnnyLightOn's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=28 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26332 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
