servies;234070 Wrote: > Where is that info your ears and bones are sending to your brains coming > from? From your speakers. If there is no difference in that signal > between the different cables then there is no difference whatever your > brain may think. That's what this whole test is about: eliminating the > influence of the human brain on the testresults.
Different strokes for different folks. There is a messing element there: passion. And to a large degree that is why the science is called *psycho*acoustics. We are more than sensory machines. When we taste a wine we have the irrational need to hear about its region, history and what not. When we buy a car a large number of very irrational factors have a huge influence over our decision. When we buy a music reproduction chain, we want to instill some of the passion we feel for the music into parts of it to "humanize" it, to turn transistors into our own Stradivarius. If someone *thinks* they can hear a difference, and it makes them close their eyes, chill and enjoy their music collection more - more power to them. That's my attitude, at least. And I am interested to hear about their story behind their particular approach to their passion - that's the fun thing between audiophiles. It's a tad of a ritual, it's not all linear considerations. I enjoy lsitening to good music on many systems, I would never pay several thousand dollars for a cable... but if someone else has one, wow, I like to hear the story and take a look at the craftmanship. Does anyone *need* a Patek Philipe Perpetual calendar that costs half a million dollars to keep time? Of course not. But it's a wonderful thing we can be so irrational and passion driven that such things exist. The pursuit of the utterly superfluous is what art and culture is all about, some would say... :-) -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38902 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
