Julf wrote: > ...preferably using rational, fact-based arguments LOL
BASED ON MY RECENT LISTENING EXPERIENCE [/B]*VIA TIDAL STREAMING**, I PREFER THE AESTHETIC QUALITY OF MQA'D ALBUMS/MUSIC OVER THE **NON*[B]-MQA'D VERSIONS OF THE SIMILAR ALBUM. My statement is both rational and fact-based. Why do you wish to argue with this statement? That like wanting to argue with a person who says "I like vanilla ice cream rather than chocolate." SMH. Do you believe in some empirically "objective" form of sound/music that doesn't pass through YOUR ears and nervous system on its way to human consciousness? This reminds me of a segment from Prof. Theodore Roszak 1969 book, THE MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE: Reflections on the Technocratic Society (scientific elites) and Its Youthful Opposition. An expert, we say, is one to whom we turn because he is in control of reliable knowledge about that which concerns us. In the case of the technocracy, the experts are those who govern us because they know (reliably) about all things relevant to our survival and happiness: human needs, social engineering, economic planning, international relations, invention, education, etc. Very well, but what is reliable knowledge? How do we know it when we see it? The answer is: reliable knowledge is knowledge that is scientifically sound, since science is that to which modern man refers for the definitive explication of reality. And what in turn is it that characterizes scientific knowledge? The answer is: -objectivity.- Scientific knowledge is not just feeling or speculation or subjective ruminating. It is said to be a verifiable description of reality that exists independent of any purely personal considerations. It is true real dependable it works. And that at last is how we define an expert: he is one who -really -knows what is what, because he cultivates an objective consciousness. Thus, if we probe the technocracy in search of the peculiar power it holds over us, we arrive at the -myth of objective consciousness.- There is but one way [according to scientisms elite and followers] of gaining access to realityso the myth holdsand this is to cultivate a state of consciousness cleansed of all subjective distortion, all personal involvement. What flows from this state of consciousness qualifies as knowledge (fact!), and nothing else does. This is the bedrock on which the [modern] natural sciences have built, and under their spell all fields of knowledge strive to become 'scientific'. The study of man in his social, political, economic, psychological, historical [and religious] aspectsall this, too, must become objective: rigorously, painstakingly objective. At every level of human experience, would-be scientists come forward to endorse the -myth of objective consciousness-, thus certifying themselves as experts. And because they know and we do not, we yield to their guidance. p. 208-209 *Source*: TIDAL HiFi, Pandora One > MySqueezebox.com using iPeng 9.2.1 app on iPhone6s/iPad *Great Room*: SB Touch(1) > AudioQuest TOS > PS Audio DL3 DAC > Audio Envy 10' cables > 200w powered Martin Logan (ML) Purity speakers, SB Touch(2) >JVC 110w amp > ML Motion 4 & AudioEngine 5. *Garage:* SB Touch(3) > Wyred mINT > Cullen Cables > ML Motion 12 *Carry Anywhere: *TIDAL >iPhone 6s > Bose Mini BT speaker. *Streaming Media:* https://www.facebook.com/groups/535747176592597/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DanSmedra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62637 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106754
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