edwardthern wrote: > .... Not one of you have the common decency to start a conversation that > promotes dialogue, rather you attack....grown men none the less.
I didn't join the discussion, but the way I read things is that you misread disagreement with a personal attack. In Internet discussions, we have to learn to be told with people vehemently disagreeing and telling us we're utterly wrong. Personally - I am somewhere inbetween. I think the audio hobby is irrational by definition, and we all have our pockets of craziness to define ourselves as "audiophiles" and read this forum. 99% people out there are perfectly happy with their smartphone and the free earbuds that shipped with them. I for one fully enjoy merely visual improvements to my system, and freely admit I enjoy it more if it pleases not only my ears, but also my visual and tactile senses. I don't claim I can hear a difference, but I simply enjoy it more, and psychoacoustics are relevant to the overall experience. I am pretty sure my favorite jazzband sounds better to me in a suave Manhattan cafe than in a Bronx trash disposal site. There's nothing wrong with psychoacoustics. They matter. But scientifically speaking - we should be careful about making claims that an experiment is reproducible. There are tons of audio tests out there that show it all comes down to 50% chance (basically, accident). But I for one have never confused ABC tests with simple musical enjoyment. ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation 12) running Ubuntu 16.04 + LMS 7.9 System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e/Shure 1540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106575 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
