tomjtx;227760 Wrote: > Audiphiles get too emotional ? > > You are joking, right ?
Man, you can just FEEL the sarcasm there. I guess that people are having fun with this but it's not just the audiophiles that get too emotional but the debunkers also. It's like they just can't live with people believing that a $1000 cable makes a difference in sound quality. I don't believe it makes a difference (or if it does it makes a very minor one) but I have no problem in people using or believing in such things. Even if it is the placebo effect at least people are enjoying it. On the other hand I do have some problems with some manufacturers preying on these people. Years ago there was a clock that you plugged into ANY outlet in your listening room and it was supposed to make your digital sources sound better. It was called the Tice audio clock and it cost $350 back in 1991. That was a total rip off but people bought it. I actually enjoy reading a lot of these debates even though I don't believe in most of the issues. On the other hand I don't like when it gets nasty (this thread doesn't seem to be too nasty but seemed to be heading that way at times). If there is a difference in the sound of a $1,000 cable it probably have something to do with the capacitance or inductive properties of the cable - certainly things that can be accomplished for less than $1,000. Back in the same time period of the Tice clock (1991) I was considering writing Stereophile and claiming that my Adcom GFP-565 preamp sounded better when I used it upside down. I would have used all kinds of audiophile words to describe the how the sound was transformed just by doing something that was free. My guess is that many people would have tried it and there would have been explainations about air flow and who knows what as to why it actually DID sound better upside down. Looking back, I really wish I had written it. -- fred7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fred7's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6523 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38258 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
