shyster;339462 Wrote: > I haven't take the tests, but the article doesn't seem to say much about > whether audiophiles are imagining things. The article does discuss how > the brain processes sound. Similar things can be said about how it > processes sight. Unfortunately, that doesn't tell us anything about > whether we need to spend $500 for speaker cable.
Well, actually it does! while processing sound, the brain will access all knowledge, all memories (some songs "smell" like I remember or I "see" that pirate-radio ship at sea again), all senses incl. vision and they will all be included in what you "hear". So, if you put up the $500 for that speaker cable and store that into your brain as being "good", it will change the processing and thus you hear the difference... it -will- sound better. Also, it will sound different in the dark compared to when the lights are bright; you might prefer bright lights while the next person prefers darkness. It will even sound different when another fan of the song is with you, or when your speakers are painted in a color you particularly like. If, after reading this forum, you have decided that they have "cheated" you into buying the $500 cable (no matter if that's true or not), your brain will process that new information when listening to your music and the difference you heard before will disappear or change. So, in general, we can state that audiophiles are right imho. They always claim differences they "hear" and that turns out to be true, albeit for different reasons than discussed so many times. ciao! Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52501 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
