opaqueice;176481 Wrote: > Phil, you're exactly supporting my point. That's precisely what the > psychological evidence shows - a lot of the time (how often depends > entirely on the context) people perceive differences when none are > there. In the context of audio I recently saw a study where 37% heard > differences in the same amplifier, but there are cases where it's > higher and lower (I can give an example where it was 100%). Would you > trust a result with a 37% chance of being incorrect? Especially when > positive results are much more likely to be reported? About your wife, > again, we don't know the cause of these things. Maybe she cleaned her > ears that morning, or ate something good for breakfast. Furthermore > there's confirmation bias - you remember the times when that happened > and not all the times it didn't. > > As for vibration etc., I'd rather not get into the specifics of this > one. Let me just say I'm rather knowledgeable on the subject and I > don't find that at all likely. > > PFloding, I think we disagree on what's plausible. And I disagree with > your criticism of my analogy - there *is* an effect here: he heard a > differnece. That's the only piece of evidence and the only thing that > requires an explanation. > > But the point here is that the psychological explanation must be > eliminated first, as it is by far the simplest and most plausible > explanation.
Sure. Double blind tests are the golden standard. However, I'm not doing this scientifically, but for my own sake, with my limited resources. (Which includes not wearing out other people asking for assistance in blind tests.) To somewhat compensate for the lack of rigorous scientific method I often revisit my preliminary conclusions. I let time be a factor. After all it is reality that is the reference here, and in the long run it is not all that hard to know if you are getting closer to reality or further away from it. I just gave my FPB200 a chance against my KSA-50S again, and this time, with the current SB3-TacT sound and balanced interconnects, it was no contest. The KSA-50S just blew the FPB200 away. (I'll do the same test again until I'm 98% sure I'm not imagining things.) -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
