magiccarpetride;611296 Wrote: 
> One thing not clear to me is why do people insist that our experiences
> have nothing to do with reality? Aren't our experiences also reality?
> Or, to put it more bluntly: what else is there other than our
> experiences?

They certainly have a lot to do with the external world, but
subjectivity enters the equation as well.  I'm certain that people are
hearing differences between things like power amplifiers and cables,
and in some instances, those differences may be something other than a
placebo effect--but those differences  correlate  to  well understood
princliples of electrical engineering--things like the output impedance
of the power amp/cable combo interacting with a given speaker's  imput
impeadance.  Many audiophiles prize these differences and are will to
pay a multi killobuck premium on equipment which delivers such
differences, but what they are really hearing are in effect,
colorations, introduced by poorly designed equipment (with impressive
fronts of course).  
As Bob Carver proved decades ago, such differences can be easily
replicated with low cost components, if that's  what the audiophile
wants.  
So the question is why aren't there companies out there offering things
like 
digital preamps with a variety of filters to recreate the experiences
of these multi killobuck gear.  Could be done for pennies, would enable
pleople to experience the "palpability" of  tubes or the "presence" of
vinyl and  keep their hard earned bucks.  
If anyone knows of a  vendor selling those kind of digital filters, 
perhaps  they could put the link in this thread.  I;m certain if such a
product were cheap enough, and could be an add on  to squeezebox, I'd be
interesting in investing $50 in  it, just  for kicks.


-- 
Phoenix

Media Room: VPI HW-19MK4,Cardas Heart Ruby, Fidelity Research Fr64s
tonearm;SB3, Tact RCS 2.0, Benchmark Dac1; Audible Illusions Mk3; Two
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