I've injected tens of thousands of my own dollars into this human experiment over the years. I have a dog in this fight.
Not to discredit in any way some of the truly great audio components encountered along the way, the truth remains that many simply do not live up to the hype and promise. Same holds true (IMO) for many of the audiophile truisms that I, and many others cling, or have clung so tightly to in the past. No REAL audiophile would dare confess to not hearing a HUGE difference. Expectations = bias. "So and So makes this (whatever)...so it is definitely better" When expectations aren't met...Rationalizations begin. (It needs a burn in) Lengthy break ins = Acclimatization. (There we go....this is WAY better) It'd be fun to put a Krell in a Sansui chassis....a piece of cheap zip cord inside a 6" O.D. Techflex...swapping a "burned in" component with one fresh off the shelf... How would this affect our perceptions? Would we still hear these things the same way? I doubt it. We listen with our eyes, our expectations, and our beliefs. -- Curt962 Transporter...Touch....Boom...... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Curt962's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86359 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
