ralphpnj;581687 Wrote: > I don't quite understand what you're trying to say here. >
That many audiophiles obsess over imagined differences that even they cannot really hear. That makes them very easy to mock, and it marginalizes their views. As a result when a real issue of sound quality comes along it's hard to get anyone to listen. And it means that most engineers - the people that actually design and build the products audiophiles use - ignore them. > > With DBT one is only testing the system and the music being used for > the test - nothing more and nothing less. Change any of the components > or the music and the test becomes invalid. Therefore all DBT results > should be followed with a statement such as "These results are only > valid for these pieces of equipment playing these pieces of music" or a > similar disclaimer. The problem with that view is that it's contradicted by evidence. If it were true, it would apply to all tests, including all science experiments (which are carried out using differing equipment in different labs on different days by different people when the earth is in a different place and the weather outside is different...). And yet, experiments teach us that the world seems to function according to predictable rules, and those rules can be isolated and studied in controlled experiments. That goes holds true for experiments in acoustics and psychoacoustics. Why audiophiles seem to think that audibility of various effects is a different category from every other phenomenon has always mystified me. But with that said, we're not talking about science - we're talking about the hobby of a few wealthy eccentrics, who are free to do anything they want. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82067 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
