bhaagensen wrote: > Ralph (and other critics:)) > > Mnyb. I undesrstand you used to shall out big bucks in cables and such. > Why have you now changed your opinion. Where your experiences not valid > back then. Or...? > > ..
I don't know really ,just a gradual awakening I think powered by various experiences (described here and there ) I was into Hi-Fi very early in life , but once you go down that road and think again and test again and gain knowledge and experience then it accelerates and you pop out to reality again :) (it's a runaway effect ) and suddenly it all hit you in your face. I recommend large amount of grain alcohol to soothe this experience , the double whammy is my engineer degree and practical field experience with electronics (not audio ) . This helps my to understand what’s probably boll*cks ,just by a quick glance nowadays ,but also that I should have realised this much earlier as do use some signal thery in my daily work. So yes my earlier experiences was coloured by large amounts of exceptional bias and probably not what it though they where and actually as it come on to me gradually at my last investment (he he) in expensive speaker cables I thought it was really hard to tell the difference really hard ? but the little I heard must have been that improvement right :) ? and the law of diminishing return (or no return is turned out to be ) . Now if do use my brain one simply realises that with 2 meters of speaker-cable and a relative benign 4ohm load with some minor ups and downs no 0,1 -100 ohm variations almost anything thick enough would do . And by all means if i had a very difficult speaker a suitable cable would not be very expensive anyway , it does not have to be hand beaten silver done in the moonlight by Peruvian virgins... My interest in science has been constant over the years which also accumulates knowledge . And the widespread new age and alternative therapy/medicine UFO religions , astrology etc have made me really worried so I'm actually a member of a sceptic society ,and thats the only kind of charity i give (small amounts ) of money to . This is much bigger problem than people realise it even permeates educational systems BS science papers get published , creationism ,astro-archaeology etcall total crackpots . Media publish just anything without any source critic at all see for example "ancient aliens" or any off the dozen TV shows with mediums speaking with the dead etc . So I see the audiophile cult just as a niche in a larger problem , that is the general belief in pseudo-sciences and other such stuff , especially privately knowing people nearly absorbed by cults or pyramid home sales schemes etc. But as I see it, audiophile beliefs are not harmless outside the audio interest as it provides yet another arena for uncritical thinking . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
