geoffkait
Responses from geoffkait
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Mapman wrote,"Well, anyone can do a Google search on "Quantum Audio Tweak" and decide for themselves about that."Really? How, pray tell, can they do that when, as you believe, very few if anyone understands quantum mechanics? Actually things are e... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Mapman wrote,"No my observation has been that the term quantum is often used as a marketing ploy to make something appear more sophisticated and valuable then it would be otherwise. I am a fan of keeping communications as simple and accurate as po... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Mapman wrote,"At least one might sniff out the snake oil easier when the term "quantum", is used in marketing materials to explain why something is so great when the advertiser knows perfectly well few if any will understand."I am kind of getting ... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Mapman wrote,"If the physics to play it back need be so far advanced beyond that required to create it in the first place to get it "right", I will still probably not be happy. But that's just me...."Yes, it's probably just you as the laser in CD ... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Quantum can be such an ugly word and makes a lot of people rather nervous. I move we just use the term, advanced physics. That way, everyone will be happy. | |
| Fuses that matter. Mapman wrote,"To those who have and continue to enjoy better sound, more power to you. Just be sure you know what the hell you are doing before customizing expensive and complex electronic gear."Faint heart n'e'r won fair maiden. Besides, replacin... | |
| Top 5 Classical recordings RCA Living Stereo Soria Series LDS 2625. Milhaud, La Creation du Monde / Suite Provencale. Mercury Living Presence, Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3; ParayStrauss: Ein Heldenleben; Wagner / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche GrammophoneM... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Mrtennis wrote,"i suppose its a philosophical issue, namely that knowledge can not be derived from sense perception."I prefer to switch your statement around to read, all of our knowledge is derived from our sensory perception. If you subscribe to... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Mrtennis wrote,"another example is claiming to hear three guitars, and consulting the liner notes, finding out that there are only two guitarists.there is an important lesson here. one should not consider the results of listening as knowledge , as... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Mrtennis wrote,"there is a cd "jazz at the pawn shop". one of the tracks is "lady be good". somewhere under one minute from the beginning of the track a telephone rings. the spl is much lower than the sound of the instruments.my friend and i liste... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Mrtennis wrote,"the differential threshold applies to detecting differences in spl, e.g. . how much of a change in spl is necessary to detect differences in loudness, varies from person to person.adaptation level concerns the point at which the ne... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Mrtennis wrote,"psychophysics underlies much of what wwe perceive and see."Really? How so? Please elucidate.Thanks in advance. | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Almarg wrote,"Geoff, thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't that better be referred to, though, as "reaction" of the subconscious mind to the matter around it, rather than as "interaction"? "Interaction" would seem to imply that in addition to the... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Mapman wrote,"Geoff, in that case, assuming you are right and everyone else is wrong, the you should help educate them. What better way to build credibility? That's kind of how higher learning works in general."I never said I knew all the answers.... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Almarg wrote,"Geoff, could you explain precisely what you mean by "mind-matter interaction," which was your answer to most of the questions in the quiz you presented a few posts back. And which, if I followed your subsequent responses correctly, i... |