The Placebo Effect


One of the things that should be taken into account in the evaluation of audio equipment, tweaks, etc is the Placebo Effect.

In the medical world, Placebos (open label or concealed) appear to mostly work on subjective symptoms, such as pain. They don’t work on an objective symptom — something a doctor could see or diagnose, such as a fracture on a bone. Placebos don’t shrink tumors, they don’t change your diabetes, and they’re not going to actually lower your blood pressure for more than 15 minutes, Basically, placebos appear to work on things that pass through the brain’s perceptual systems — where they can prompt the release of opioids and other endorphins (chemicals that reduce pain) in the brain. Bottom line, placebos can result in perceived improvement even where no actual improvement exists.

The same applies to our hobby. Probably too often, we sense improvement in SQ because of the Placebo Effect. Our money spent, hardware bias's, effective marketing, or being influenced by the experience of others (regardless if true), often have us believe that we have obtained improvements that don't really exist. This is not necessarily a bad thing because a perceived improvement, whether real or imagined is still an improvement to the listener. This may explain part of why certain "improvements" can't be measured. 

J.Chip
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this fundamental point about the animal origins and coloration of all possible avenues of conscious thought, is what gave the renaissance men of the early 1700’s the great idea of creating the vocational slot of engineering.

where rote training methods came into being along with formalized academia in all that... and poof!...engineering came into being (over some 20-40 years).

This is the only way they found they could create an army of useful people out of the complexities that physics was unfolding to them. As the bulk of humanity wasn’t going to be getting into the weeds of the objectivity/subjectivity problem --any time soon. Literally not wired for it. Such folks invariably have no idea what the question of consciousness means, and generally have to look it up in a book ....and then make a mess out of the analysis anyway.



The separation and after that the content assigned to be "objective" and the content assigned to be "subjective" is the result in the history of consciousness of a distantiation from the cosmos, a less inclusive animal participation to the cosmos...

What human called objective reality is a designed and very PLASTIC successful construction....

Like the web designed by a spider...BUT the spider know that his web is ONLY a design to catch something ; human dont know like the spider, his design is so powerful compared to the spider one that it can erase its own participation in the cosmos and made it completely unconscious or forgotten....

What transhumanist cultist called A.I. and virtual reality would be the manifestation of a complete forgetfullness of human origin and destiny....Dont call me luddite , i am not against technology at all here...

Men could become a spider enveloped by his web and unable to walk and even think....

This will ressemble to the cocoon caterpillar BUT with never any possible metamorphose nor actual transformation... Momification of human life and intelligence in a static artefact that some deluded men will call the greatest human achievement....Evolution replaced by death...Love replaced by the illusion of power.... The fear of death illusion by a greatest deception : an artificial immortality....

Nothing qualified to be objective/ subjective exist which does not come out first of consciousness...The distinction itself come to being from an evolution and emergence of the conscious thought process and the separation implicated by this distinction could erase the power of thought itself so powerful this creation and design is when let unsupervised and to itself.......

Science is not technology....Religion is not magic.... Rationality could become irrational, and all that are not by themselves and separately conscious spirituality...

We are at a fork-road of destiny....

I do not know who engender and beget humanity anyway, but i know that after these symbolic 9 months with are millions years, humanity  gives birth to itself or not, NOW....
"...wholly illiterate television (passive unthinking observation and taking in of things) of objectivity..."

What on Earth is illiterate television of objectivity?

The only thing I could figure out is that such a television started engineering in 1700s and that is why Germany still has the best technical schools in the world. Or is it that Bavaria has the best technical schools in Germany because they started it?

In any case, I desperately hope for an objective answer.
A few weeks later our repair tech notified us that he was replacing the circuit board in the unit, as it switched between the "A" and "B" lamps, but was only playing the amp connected to the "A" input, and that this was the case from the time the unit was installed.

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You could have IF no one ever turned up the volume..

The switch scenario doesn’t work, different remotes and different volume pots, EVEN if they didn’t have remotes...

Sorry your wire swapper (wasn’t a tech) guy was blowing smoke.. Really..

Another hero at work.. seen a million of them... Let me guess he thought ALL cables sound the same..

Why not all amps do.. Funny guy..

Regards
glupson.....objectivity?  Here?!

When the Animal House roach-smoking atom under fingernail link came up, I fell out.....damn quantum universe......too much too many variables to consider...

....and then you throw humans into it.

*sheesh* ;)