magiccarpetride;605402 Wrote: > So the fact that there is someone imagining something is not real?
I'm not suggesting your imagination isn't real. I'm quite comfortable with the idea that your own expectation bias leads to a REAL improvement in the sound THAT YOU PERCEIVE. That's great. These are free mods, and they do nobody any harm (apart from killing certain value added functions of the Touch, limiting your options for upgrading etc). What does annoy me though is the assumption that these mods, even if there's no way they can have the slightest physical effect on the output (the volume maximising mod for instance), will affect the sound THAT I PERCEIVE. The suggestion that I should try it myself before forming an opinion is insulting - as someone with a reasonable amount of programming experience, I can say with complete certainty that evaluating an algorithm and then substituting the result with the same hard coded value can have no effect. I don't need to test it in order to know that. It's rare that such a patently false claim comes along to illustrate this point. Normally the claim concerns something that is much harder to quantify - the effect of different interconnects, bi-wiring, power supplies etc. Anyone interested in improving the ACTUAL sound quality might feel compelled to shell out real money to test them, but once they've done that they've already been caught in the expectation bias trap, and it becomes incredibly difficult to get to the truth. So we come back to objective testing. Personally I find it intriguing that different individuals can have such different outlooks. You referred yesterday to my 'engineering/scientific superstition'. I see it as the complete opposite of a superstition - I see it as an enlightened philosophy - and I see your blind adherence to the edicts of an audiophile guru as the misguided superstition. But I guess that's just something we should agree to disagree on. I'm done. -- chill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
