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| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? @asctim, "From what I’ve heard about pain killing placebos is that they don’t actually work when measuring pain objectively - which is usually done with a range of motion test. A person on a placebo will say they feel better and the pain is less b... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? There's some good information regarding the causes of loudspeaker cabinet vibrations in the following video where Andrew Jones talks to Upscale Audios Kevin Deal about his Elac DBR62 bookshelves.It begins around the 13 minute markhttps://youtu.be/... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? @philbarone,"Some people just feel safer paying more."Particularly it would seem musicians. Didn’t Joshua Bell pay some astronomical sum of money for his Stradivarius, yet other violins are often preferred in blind listening tests? To be fair to B... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? The problem isn’t that the placebo effect wears off (just like hypnotic suggestion eventually does if not constantly repeated and reinforced) it’s that the consumer/customer in their desperation might move onto the next placebo once it does.My mot... | |
| So how much do you think the placebo effect impacts our listening preferences? @mikedangelo,Perhaps it’s the 3% that are getting their knickers knotted over sound quality?For most folks these so called night and day differences are entirely placebo.There’s a reason why the AT50s and MDR7506 have been around for decades and d... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? @mijostyn,"Electronics are not effected by vibration. Electrons could give a hoot. If they were we would have F22s crashing all over the place as they are completely controlled by electrons. If we blinded all these silly people they would never be... | |
| Food: What does the typical audiophile eat? The connection between food and music is an ancient one. In fact the connection between music and almost everything is an ancient one.Anyway here are some Music Food Quotes courtesy of FoodReference com http://www.foodreference.com/html/qmusic.ht... | |
| Vibration - What are the Main Sources? With something like photography it’s obvious that keeping the camera as still as possible is of great benefit. You only have to look at 100 year old photographs to see just how much detail any camera on a decent tripod can capture.With audio playb... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? I’d rather trust in the heart of a killerThan believe all the lies in a scholar’s brainI am strange and I have been recklessBut I’ve never been insane[Larkin Grimm - Link In Your Chain] | |
| Member Almarg passed away last night @stimpy1226,These past 5 months for me have been shocking, so I can appreciate how you must feel.I can't remember a previous time when 5 people I knew have all died so close together.Rather shockingly, the closest of them was still comparitively y... | |
| What's your dream speaker? My Tannoy Berkeley’s are my dream loudspeakers since I’ve not heard any that sounded significantly better.Then again I’ve not heard the following :Harbeth M40sTannoy WestminstersLinkwitz LX521Fujitsu Siemens Eclipse TD712Living Voice Vox Olympiana... | |
| Most comforting song There are so many great songs in consideration but this one came immediately to mind.Bill Fay - Be Not So Fearfulhttps://youtu.be/mJfca3ImjKc | |
| Best demo recording @millercarbon,"Technically it is the system that makes the recordings shine. Or should be."We know that plainly isn't the case. Not even technically. There's little getting away from the fact that differences between recordings are far greater tha... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? @mahlman,"If you could toss a vibrant word salad with the same ingredients and taste qualities as the plebian described one, and you could convince people to spend 100 times more for the privilege of digesting your words, why not. There are tons o... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? @tzh21y "maybe i should have been using 14 gauge basic wire from the get go. lol"Why not push the boat out and get some high purity ofc cable?It might not sound any better than a pair of twisted coat hangers (why should it?) but it might bring yo... |