arnyk wrote: > > I don't know how separate the two (basically medium versus message) are, > but I know that you can study one quite extensively and hold the other > constant, and it is all good. They both involve learning. >
(I didn't criticise the science.) > > The fact of the matter is that in most of the treasured audiophile cases > of burn in, detailed technical investigation finds no relevant audible > changes. This is particularly true of gear that has to be very stable to > work well, such as DACs. So then you have to either decide that > technology is lacking, or that the audiophiles don't understand that > they have brains that are very complex and do crazy things like learn > and remember. It is possible that while many of us of the scientific > persuasion have brains that learn and remember, the audiophiles are > lacking in this area. > I have no prior knowledge of the research that has been done in the area (my PhD is in applied mathematics), so that's why I'm here. Unfortunately it's not always a rewarding pursuit.. I am, incidentally, reading interesting stuff around here, but it's bloody hard work cutting through the sarcasm to the point being made sometimes. I do, still, refuse to take sweeping statements as fact, and you shouldn't have it any other way. I think that I am guilty of responding too quickly, on a smartphone screen, without spending time on fully researching the context, though. I guess this can come across as being dismissive. If it means anything to anyone here, despite the rage and the bitching directed at me (and that I've responded with) I have changed my approach to some audio aspects. I would not have ever described myself as a hard-core audiophile (despite what some people here probably think), that just doesn't make any sense to me, but I have stopped thinking about the system so much and spent more time just listening into the music. Given that I don't listen to a pure diet of high-quality audiophile-mastered obscure jazz or classical music I inevitably find huge variation in the SQ of individual recordings. Hanging out here means I now put that down to the source master, not my system, and that's a relief .. :) -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
