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Science is not a "God". Scientific method itself has been shown this century to be deficient in several regards, most notably in the biases and perseptive limitations of the scientific minds that conduct the experiements (It never fails to amaze me that those who adhere rigidly to the assumption that the assumptions of scientific method discern primary truth are also the people unaware of the progeny of Kant to Popper to Kuhn to Freyerabend, which seems to disclose, logically speaking, an issue of self-reflection...).

It does not matter why the cable changed sound. In an empiric experiment, you can not dispense with valid observations because you do not know why they occured. Such a position merely reveals an underlying bias to the methodology, namely, that those observations that conform to assumptions of the truth of the preciever that existed prior to the conducting of the experiment are favored, ie observed with greater attention and selected thereby, and those observations unexplained by the existing paradigm of ideas are dispensed with less attention, or in this case, even an apology for seeing something else (even though, logically, that assumably incongruent observation was arrived at with equal application of the same method).

If you were truly scientific, then you would turn your attention to why the cable changed sound. And if you could not find the answer within you paradigm of ratio-empiric rules, then, even by those rules, you must examine those assumptions for a partiality in perspective or perception that is denying you an understanding of that given observation. To deny that is itself counter to the ratio-empiric logic that underlies scientific method.

Thanks guys for not reacting negatively to my prose, which, admittedly, is not the norm here; I wanted to be as concise as possible. I also just get tired - no, frustrated - at the people so attached to objectified thinking in audio (or any endeavor, for that matter). They are missing so much, both in music and in themselves. Believing in a matrix of ideas as a definitive paradigm is a comfortable place to be, but, ultimately, an attachment to that set of rules on what is, is itself our limitation (and particularly when its focus, control of matter, has had such dire consequences for the matter around us that we define as "not us"). The underlying motivation for this attachment is a fear, or recoil, from future knowledge and experience. The belief that scientific truth is primary truth while denying, or ignoring, its partialities is itself un-scientific and constitutes denial. This denial in the microcosm of audio is symptomatic of this current in our society at large; they are not separate. Such minds are following rules, unreflectively, that somebody else told them was all they could know. They limit themselves; they limit what is. Limiting "what is" is not a good thing to do if you want to evolve - individually, collectively, in audio or not. An attachment to a scientific/ratio-empiric/positivist world-view is a denial of what we could be.

Thanks again for listening with open minds.

Is it my imagination, or does Eber chime into discussions only when he thinks he sees an easy mark, as in something that's a little different - or, a little different from him? Didn't Eber become sparse in these pages about two months ago, right about at the same time that some members were warned about their combativeness and rudeness?

Hmmm...

Basically, I think it is cowardly to criticize in a combative and demeaning manner without addressing content.

There are many different people in this world, and in this audio world, and it is best to be tolerant of those who communicate differently than ourselves if that communication is honest and forthright.

Actually, some of the ideas in the above piece were previously published in the Absolute Sound, and most recently, in Ultimate Audio magazine.

I'm sorry that Eber can not understand the content of the above to a sufficient degree to respond, or that he thinks he should impose his own ideas on what is proper discourse on this page, or that he is just mean-spirited and gets an anonymous rush from insiting discord in those around him.

But, if he can not respond to content, or lacks the cognitive agility to do so, he should keep his childish games to himself.