darrenyeats;683215 Wrote: > I agree there are a lot of people unable or unwilling to admit their > perceptions may be coloured or even manufactured by psychological > factors. This happens on any internet forum. > > As Clive pointed out, ALL of us are influenced by this, even when we > know it's happening. > > Personal blind testing is one way to address the problem but > unfortunately it's impractical in many situations. > > Admitting blind testing can be impractical isn't the same as denying > psychological bias! > Darren
This is bullshit. No one is denying the fact that extraneous factors influence our experiences. For example, if you're into enjoying wine, you know that part of the enjoyment is not only the wine itself, but also the size and the shape of the bottle from which you pour the wine, the size, shape, color, font and other graphical gimmickry displayed on the bottle label, the size and the shape of the glass into which you pour the wine, the type of lighting in the room, the bra size of the women you're enjoy the glass with, etc. Same goes for audio reproduction. Not only the audio equipment, but also the looks of the kit, the ambience, the lighting, the bra size... Everything affects how we experience something, and whether we enjoy it or not. Same as it gets hard to enjoy good wine while drinking it from a baby bottle, it gets hard to enjoy good music reproduction while sitting in a shitty room. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
