opaqueice;176468 Wrote: > What we do know is that they do occur, and very often - when people are > asked which of two identical things are better, they almost never say > "these are identical", and almost always say "this one is better". Not > only that they have very specific (and wrong, since in these controlled > experiments the two are identical) reasons for why one is better. This > is an established fact, but for some reason many people are very > resistant to it.
I think this is a pretty broad assumption, and one that I don't agree with. Yes, there are those cases, but there are also lots of other cases. I've been involved in "shootouts" where people have heard no changes when a component was swapped in/out...and ones where people "heard" changes when nothing was changed. (The one I usually find most reliable is when my wife (a non-audiophile) walks into my listening room and asks "did you change something? It sounds different today" when all I've done is adjust a speaker placement, change a power cord, or yes, add a vibration control tweak. :-)) > This particular tweak, and many others, is very hard to explain through > physics. To accommodate it we would need either a very complicated and > unlikely mechanism using known physics, or we would have to invoke > something new and unknown. So we have two explanations for the same > fact - one which we know is there, which has been confirmed again and > again, and one which is very complicated and baroque or goes against > centuries of accumulated knowledge. There's not much of a choice > there, and so it isn't something interesting to investigage, because > it's very easily explained with something boring and conventional. My general understanding of why vibration control devices are important in electronic gear (not just audio) is that movement/vibration of an electrical circuit theoretically has an effect on the magnetic fields being generated in the circuit. This is supposedly most apparent with the effects of vibration on a transformer (although in this case, there is no transformer in the SB chassis). I have no idea if this is correct, but based on my rudimentary understanding of electricity and magnetism, it seems to make sense. Btw - Gary, are you GBB from audiocircle.com? -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
