cliveb;693375 Wrote: > Sigh. It's all very simple. > > The TAS authors heard a difference that really ought not to be there. > Assuming for the moment that they are not flat-out lying and genuinely > did perceive a difference, there are two possible reasons: > > 1. There really are audible differences, which goes against a vast body > of accumulated knowledge. > > 2. The effect is down to well-understood non-auditory factors. This is > the overwhelmingly likely explanation. > > We can draw an analogy to the recent "faster than light" neutrino > results. The experimenters checked and double checked, and when they > really couldn't find fault with their methodology, they appealed for > others to check their methods, as well as to attempt to replicate the > results. (Recently, a flaw was indeed found, much to the relief of > physics). > > In similar vein, the TAS authors have appealed to the rest of us to > attempt to replicate their results. But what they failed to do was to > ask for flaws in their methodology to be found. And it took about a > millisecond to find such deep flaws, which render their results utterly > invalid. > > When someone announces that they have discovered something that goes > against the existing body of knowledge, and their methods are found to > be flawed, there is no earthly reason why anybody should waste their > time to take it seriously or attempt to replicate it. I agree. This isn't really like the apparent anomaly from the CERN experiments- it's basically like someone reported that the dumbest clumsiest and most attention seeking child in form IIID claims to have proven that his pencilcase can travel faster than light.
There is no even prima facie evidence to discuss. Not even worth the effort of raising one's eyebrow. -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
