magiccarpetride;683223 Wrote: > 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.
yes, but saying one enjoys something more because of the ambiance, is very different from claiming that a "prettier" cable changed the sound waves that emanated from the speakers.... -- garym *Location 1:* VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) > LMS 7.7.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VB Appliance 3TB (2.0) > LMS 7.7.1 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.1 > SqueezePlay Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controllers: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
