jeffmeh;176517 Wrote: > At the risk of oversimplifying, it seems to me that the opposing > positions can be summarized as: > > 1) I can hear a difference and that's good enough for me. > > 2) Until you can prove to me that you hear a difference I will remain > skeptical. > > Each position is valid, although as I have said before, I am in camp 2) > if you are asking me to open my wallet, lol.
Yeah, me too :-). I think maybe we can add one more item to your list: 3) When is it worth investigating further? I would say it's when there's a reasonable chance there's something interesting there (obviously a judgement call). For example, tube amps typically have much higher distortion than SS amps, that's easy to measure. So when someone reports they hear a difference, there are two very plausible explanations: psychology and that the distortion is audible. In that case it's worth investigating further. In many tests (actually all the ones I've seen) it turned out the first explanation was correct, but that wasn't at all obvious a priori. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
