garym;684666 Wrote: > I see how you might interpret what I said this way. I didn't go into > complete detail in my response, but at least in my field, experiments > without any theory-based hypothesis are not a good thing. Without the > theory as a foundation for the hypothesis being tested, I agree this > would be a fishing expedition and not valid. Sort of like most of the > tests of "tweaks" reported in this thread. Many of the questions for > the tweakers posted here are in a sense asking for the theory > underlying the hypothesis of "different sound" being tested.
Makes sense. But I think it also makes sense to allow for a bit of random trial-and-error, you know just stirring up some shit, do a bit of brainstorming, record one's findings, and if the findings turn out to be significant, focus one's attention on trying to find a feasible explanation that would be supported by the time honored principle of Occam's Razor. Before you know it, you might get yourself a new scientific theory;) The point being that, unlike the apparently prevailing sentimentality at large, not all the scientific theories have already been formulated, nor have we reached the absolute end of scientific and engineering inventions. There are many uncharted territories to explore. Or, some of us may fancy things being that way. -- magiccarpetride ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
