Rodney_Gold;277496 Wrote: > Why measure or do blind testing? You are listening to the music with > flawed equipment , your ears and brain , so why not trust them? They > are the determinants of whether you are enjoying it or not. Doing blind > testing is as artificial as falsely hearing differences. Its pretty > pointless to indulge oneself in angst of whether the differences one > thinks one hears is real or not , if you believe you believe , if not > it's also 100%.
Sure - but some of us form our beliefs based on blind as well as sighted listening. Given the philosophy you're espousing you shouldn't have any problem with that. And in the end, the results give one a much greater latitude for actually enjoying music, rather than obsessing over magic pebbles and wires, and for focusing on those aspects of sound reproduction which actually make a really big difference (like speakers, equalization, and room interactions). And you save money to boot. > Thing is , believers dont preach to non believers whereas dyed in the > wool objectivists take every opportunity to prosletise. If only that were true... I have absolutely no problem with someone buying a $5,000 wire. And I have no problem with them saying how much they like it, or how much they think it improves their listening experience, or how pretty it is. But when they tell someone else that such voodoo is necessary for good sound, say nonsense like "if you can't hear the difference it's because your system isn't sufficiently resolving", or even worse, when manufacturers make false claims about how cables improve sound quality - that's what I object to. And that happens -all the time-. In fact the overwhelming majority of posts on audio fora are of that nature, and that's the advice you'll get from most salespeople in high-end stores (or even at Best Buy). -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44124 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
