netchord wrote: > may i offer a contrarian view: do not listen blind- we don't listen to > music with just our ears, but you should trust what you hear, or what > you think you hear, even if you know what you're listening to.
Why? We know that both expectation bias and confirmation bias are very strong factors, and that our ear-brain combination is easily deceived (check out the McGurk effect for a good example). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102596 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
