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 Bel 1001's Bridged; Aerial Accoustice 10ts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phoenix's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85681 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
