Patrick Dixon;189369 Wrote: > Surely what you 'think' you hear is actually 'what you hear'?
True, but let's attempt to draw a distinction between audio improvement and the listening experience. While there's room for subjectivism, most genuine audio improvements/differences can be measured pretty easily and well (and, of course, heard). But once we look at the listening experience and start talking about differences that cannot be reliably discerned either by ear (yes, ABX DBT) or measuring equipment we're into the psychological realm. In this realm it seems that, for those thus disposed, the claim that any particular object might improve the sound always results in an improved listening experience. How do you evaluate such an object on its merits in this case? In these cases, it seems to me that it's more instructive to evaluate how the marketing of the object managed to affect the listener in such a way that they somehow enjoyed the sound more. But that's a psychological discussion entirely divorced from any discussion of electronics or equipment. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33707 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
