HeadBanger wrote: > I agree with Julf - I don't think they are lying; they genuinely do > believe this because of their own subconscious bias. > It's very hard to get someone to admit otherwise unless you manage to > get them to do a true blind ABX.
Remember we are not talking about an audiophile spending their own money in an effort to improve the sound of their system. We are talking professional reviewers, who are supposed to be experts in audio, writing reviews which audiophiles will then use to make their decisions on what to spend their money on. So the reviewers actually have a twofold "subconscious bias" - the normal audiophile bias plus a bias with respect to the advertisers, as in they can't say anything which might upset their advertisers. Why I write what I write is simply because there is absolutely no scientific reason, none, for Harley to write the nonsense that I quoted in my initial post. The same goes for my other pet peeve - digital audio cables, be they coax or USB. A properly functioning digital audio cable has absolutely NO EFFECT on the sound of the playback of a digital audio file. They only write these lies because that's what the high end cable manufactures, one of their main advertisers, want them to write. To put it another way, I can go around saying and BELIEVING that 2+2=5 but that doesn't make it so. So sure the clowns at the high end audio magazines can write whatever nonsense they want but when they write something that is just not true they should be called out on it, something which I love to do :) Mike Sargent wrote: > Which they will avoid like the plague! Absolutely 100% true!!! Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100783 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
