jh901 wrote: > Your transparency mantra is hilarious. I'm not sure how you convinced > yourself, but I can see where it is convenient for you. Note that when > I "hit play" that the reproduced sound is extraordinary. None of the > gear is broken or otherwise deliberately designed with flaws. What you > hear at home is mediocrity if you are lucky. Transparency and all. And > science. > > Send a local forum member my way to report back to you. Prepare a new > tactic in the meantime.
That you like the sound so much does not really imply that its "reproduced" . I would count using vacuum tubes as flawed especially any brand that's ever done a 300B amp like Cary, to use tube *is* to design with flaws. And it the big scheme it's not strange at all the humans believe weird things audiophiledom is a very small thing , look up the newest diet or go to a health store , swim with dolphins deny climate change/evolution, fake cancer treatments homepathy, religions, racism the list goes on . As in US where only 60% do not believe in evolution that mean that about a hundred million people are even more fooled than audiophiles ! To only be an audiophile is to have a very limited flaw in the perception off reality . it's not at all strange that there is a whole cult/hobby/business grown around this . It is perfectly within human nature and we all get caught up in something similar from time to time . The key here is "critical thinking" to realise Im I drinking the cool aid now ? So the big picture is that probably >90 of the human population hold some very very weird belief or opinon of some sort close to their hearts , we are simply not built to experience reality "as is", every experience we have a re prefiltered via our subconsius/brain etc . We need a toolbox sometimes call it the "scientific method" . So that all audiophiles are missguided is not a very preposterous claim at all . Do you really think that the "scientific method" can be wrong regarding audio and at the same time be right about the medicine you use ? or why your car work or why your computers works (wonder why no one yet proposed that my excell spreadsheets would compute better with tube power supply ) . It's a method and a system it is not limited to audio . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842
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