hilde45
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| Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy See a recent video, here: https://youtu.be/wUtbVrYDQuoHe wants to have it both ways. Everyone else is out to scam you, but he doesn’t because he’s not like everyone else -- they’re all selling but he’s just loves audio and wants you to love your r... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics I try to pretend I’m in an actual room with actual people and actually had to take responsibility for what I say and whether I attempt to hear them out. I don’t always do this, but that’s the goal.Various posters have gotten under my skin more tha... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @snilf Yes, we'll leave Wittgenstein aside for now (until someone accidentally yells 'slab.') I'm a pragmatist by training, so the Kantian account of subjectivism is helpful for me, but only to a point. (Another topic to run off the road, here.)@s... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @sdl4 I liked the way they took a veil off upper mids and highs. Almost the effect of putting a thin cloth over the tweeters/mids and then removing it.Found them all used. For the speaker, found a 14ft length then had AP cut it in half for me. Wou... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @snilf Brilliant post!If neuroscience is one day able to "map" the neural connections that objectively correspond to the experience of tasting a fine Cabernet Sauvignon, that neurological correlate will capture nothing at all of the experience of... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Objective reasoning can be thought of as thinking like a machine.A machine...Designed by a human.With metrics set by humans and human science.With output defined by humans.With output interpreted by humans.The trail of the human serpent is over ev... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @sdl4 I hear definite differences in cables; of course, I don't have the tools to measure the competing cables I'm measuring, so I cannot presume to weigh in on the more general issue at stake.I did for cables what I did for all my gear; after so... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @decooney After all the attempted measuring is exhausted, Taste wine, Listen to cable changes. In the end its up to you what is good.I think the opposite side would re-phrase your saying this way:"After all the attempted measuring is exhausted, s... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Good points.@mastering92 To listen critically - We need to put our energy into the power of objective reasoning and honest observations.Here’s where you and I may see things differently. I am in the field of philosophy. Every argument which is off... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @djones51 A good reply and, as usual, I’m learning from your posts. One thing which trips me up on this topic is the presumption that we know completely what to measure *for*. The flaws in human perception, bias, subjective attention, etc. are all... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different A little while ago I received this direct message from a user who no longer wishes to post on the forum. I wanted to add it to the thread (despite the fact that it paints my question as borne of ignorance -- see: "If the test was not blind it did ... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different @snilf Spot on. The terms "objectivity" and "subjectivity" and the hard dualism dividing mind and world are the root of a lot of mistakes in audio and other areas, but it's no simple matter to unpack and defuse those mistaken summations of what e... | |
| Critical listening and altered states More good stuff.@vinocour When I evaluate gear or make buying decisions that are chemically enhanced, even slightly, I often do not agree with myself when the enhancement has worn off or I listen to a choice over time. I currently never make buyi... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different Good posts.For an issue which many consider either fruitless or settled, its ability to endure is amazing.Listened to this podcast from just a couple days ago: https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2021/09/09/what-are-meta-materials-do-expensive-cables-m... | |
| Critical listening and altered states @millercarbon Lagavulin is close to the tops for me; 16 years and ready for love. I'm also a big Talisker fan. Laphroig is too smoky/peaty but those others march me up as close as I need. |