Interconnect Directionality

Gee, Bobbie disapproves of me.   Still laughing!

Nothing but ASSumptions and excuses.   No comprehension    Pathetic, yet laughable!

Typical of robertcon’s knee-jerks and hubris, to fail to comprehend/totally miss the point of my post(beside adding to Geoff’s list of modern history’s highly debatable subject matter).    I’ll bet robertcon never got past the date of the article.    Once again: I especially like the first three sentences, of the last paragraph, WHICH STATES, "Efforts to disprove ’cold fusion’ remind me of the O. J. Simpson case--the evidence is clear enough that most people have firm beliefs, yet truly conclusive proof is elusive.   But science is not law: when one puts a scientific theory on trial in an experiment, the existing theory is presumed guilty of explaining your observations until it is proven innocent by showing that only a new theory will fit the evidence properly.   Large changes in well-established theories require a stronger body of evidence."                          That statement’s FACT and whether the article’s 20 years or 120 years old, won’t change it!    Theories are TRIED and either proven or proven false, by experimentation.

Then there’s: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-current-scien/  I especially like the first three sentences, of the last paragraph.

robertcon-  " Your lack of knowledge of how to design experiments to eliminate bias does neither validates your last statement NOR invalidates the fact that it is the pundits who need to take said blind tests and prove they can hear a difference since they are the ones making the claim. No need to worry about the preferences, biases or experience since the only people taking the test are the ones making the claim."                                                             The above is simply another of your blatant shows of hubris(and attempted obfuscation).      ie: You know absolutely nothing, about me or how much of what I have studied.     Unlike you and your obvious insecurities, I have nothing to prove or promote.    My only agenda, is to encourage others, not to take someone else's theories as fact/truth and to actually test things/listen for themselves, with their own ears and on their own systems.      It's the only way they'll ever know, if whatever they're curious about actually makes a noticeable difference, TO THEM.   

robertcon-  " There is an assumption (often a self assumption) that certain "audiophiles" have golden ears, and hence they use all these "tweaks" because they have super-human hearing and can hear differences the rest of us cannot. The reality is that it is equally plausible that what they really have is a higher susceptibility to suggestion, self suggestion, and confirmation bias. At this point is it hard to argue that the latter is not the more likely case, as most of these claims fall apart when the ability to see/know the change is remove from the equation."   AND, from the Something For The Fuse Guys thread:   "........but when someone brings up a group, made of up actual audio researchers, experts, and others who are viewed by their peers as experts, that that group is suddenly of "no value"."                                                     I especially appreciated the opening line, about, "self-assumption", AS IF the poster was free of such things, after the egregious, unmitigated hubris, they've exhibited.    I suppose,  everyone is expected to believe, "susceptibility to suggestion" and  expectation or, "confirmation bias" MUST be nonexistent, within Bobbie's cadre?      What about peer pressure?      Imagine one of them, admitting to actually hearing a difference, let alone an improvement, knowing what they would face.     Oh, wait: those guys(the Naysayer Cadre) are COMPLETELY impartial(snort of derision).      Or- is it possible, that there’s ever been a panel, selected from a completely random pool of music lovers, that have never met or compared notes, as relates to their listening preferences/biases?      And: had their aural acuity tested, prior to listening?      I’d be mildly interested in the results myself, were that the case!