Bad news for audiophiles?

In new study a bottle of wine priced at $90 tastes better than a bottle of the same wine with price tag of $10.

http://www.cnet.com/news/study-90-wine-tastes-better-than-the-same-wine-at-10/

geoffkait06-09-2015 8:36pm

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randy-11 Details Discussions Posts This discussion 1,913 posts 10-12-2016 at 11:58pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete maybe the $10 bottle is like a very hot trebled up stereo that sounds good initially but fatigues you quickly or ... it is just confirmation bias, aka 'placebo effect' something that has plagued audio for decades
randy-11 Details Discussions Posts This discussion 1,913 posts 10-16-2016 at 08:15pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The really bad news for audiophiles is the disreputable pseudo-techno-babble spouted by people who don't know the first thing about electronics or bio-acoustics, many of whom use that to bill their customers of thousands of dollars. If you disagree, then I have a basilar membrane based bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
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randy-11 Details Discussions Posts This discussion 1,913 posts 11-28-2016 at 02:08am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Link for the Crossmodal Research Lab at Oxford, in the Psych. Dept. headed by Charles Spencer. https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/crossmodal-research-laboratory - food tastes are influenced by the cutlery used, and the effects of the frequencies in music on enhancing different tastes. Taking a swing at the audiophile market would be a public service. Anybody want to ship him some DACs at wildly different price points?

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