arnyk wrote: > Today, there is no lack of software availability. There are dozens for > Windows and Google Play Store shows at least 2 that even run on > commodity and high end cell phones. Yet, accounts of their use are like > hen's teeth on the web. They are highly convincing, especially when the > audiophile uses them to do their own tests. But, people have got to > actually use them. Audiophiles aren't going to use ABX tests, because so-called high end audio operates much like religions: it requires faith over and above rational analysis. Consider a devout Christian/Muslim/Jew/etc who is offered the chance to take a test that will prove beyond any doubt the existence or otherwise of God. They're not going to take that test, because it puts at risk their investment in a belief system. Audiophiles who buy in to the snake oil ideas are in pretty much the same position.
And of course they have a get out clause: the high priests of audiophilia tell them that ABX tests are inherently flawed, so they have a rational (to them) reason not to take them. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
