Neh.... :) Of course, a claim - wether positive or negative - presented without argument is not worth a penny. But this just resolves into what constitutes an argument. Here traditions vary depending on the science, and I'm sure some audiophile story-tellers are in fact able to present sequences of words that can be counted for as arguments*. This, in principle is fine. Moreover the [generally accepted] philosphical basis for science is [as you touch upon] that one can hypothesise anything provided it is falisifiable (and you don't actually have to be able to do this yourself to post the hypothesis). Now a hypothesis such as "24/192 is audibly different from 16/44" does occur to me as valid in this sense - but I'm sure it can be debated. To then support any claims on this matter obvioiusly requires arguments, and this brings be back to what I've already said.
So in the context of science, it boils down to what a valid hypothesis is and what a valid argument is. This brings us far beyond the rigidity of math and Nyquists theorem and I guess quickly becomes philosophy. Not that I'm capable of such a discourse, but surely its not difficult to see why the train gets off tracked at your average hifi internet forum... This stuff will never get resolved there - and for good reasons - IMO. * Not counting the recently presented "sawtooth" argument, there are other arguments in favour of high-res that are more solid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
