opaqueice;176509 Wrote: > As a research physicist that has decent familiarity with the cognitive > psych literature (not to mention the results of blind tests in audio), > I have a pretty good basis for judging plausibility here. It is > certain that the psychological explanation highly plausible, which > means you could never convince someone that it's a physical effect > without eliminating that first. You could go on and ask how plausible > is the physics explanation, and (at least in my professional judgement) > it's highly implausible.
Mr. Opaqueice (do you have a first name?), I think your academic credentials and job aren't particularly relevant to this discussion. And it comes across as a bit high handed - you can't convince us that are right so you bring in academic credentials to enhance the arguments that aren't good enough to do the job on their own. If I take Jeff's simplified version of the discussion: > 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. I think that second part isn't quite accurate. I think that part 2) is really: 2)I don't believe that you are hearing a real difference and I will insist that you aren't until you prove it to me. It's your job to prove it me, not my job to disprove that there's a real difference. This type of passive sniping from the sidelines is really a bit off putting. If you don't believe that there are differences with these tweaks that's fine - just leave us to have our fun. But it's not really necessary to turn every discussion into one about blind testing. After all, this is the Audiophiles board. ---Gary -- GaryB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GaryB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
