JezA;618321 Wrote: > Nothing wrong with skepticism at all; a good skeptic would put the claim > to the test. >
A good skeptic would wait for you to give some evidence for your claims. The whole point of skepticism is to sort through a world of competing and contradictory truth claims to determine which ones are worth spending time investigating further, not to go haring off trying to test every claim made by anybody. > > So which cables have you listened to comparitively in your system? > My sighted comparisons would have the same evidentiary value as yours or anybody elses. That is, very little, if any, value. I think what you are asking for is deference for your point of view because you have made sighted comparisons that others have not. Is that the case? Or have you've done double blind tests and have found statistically significant differences? > > Since you do not believe any differences are possible, > This is a rather willful misreading of what I claimed. To restate, once the total resistance of the wire is below some percentage of total load resistance -- or equivalently, the insertion loss is below some level -- no audible differences between wire are possible. I'm willing to entertain some pretty low threshold for arguments sake, say an insertion loss of 0.05dB or even 0.01dB, since it's not too hard to acheive with inexpensive wire if the wire runs aren't too long or the speaker impedance too low. Though I don't think the threshold for audibility is anywhere near that low. > > what steps have you taken to eliminate such bias from your > observations? How do you know that you are not hearing what you don't > want to hear? That's the point: neither you nor I can remove the bias of sighted listening, whatever our individual expectations may be. I actually claimed to perceive differences when changing wires and interconnects earlier in the thread. What I also made clear is that I was not particularly impressed by this. -- Daverz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daverz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86298 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
