mahgister
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| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? The sound quality of the Scottwheel system has nothing to do with his dogmatic opinion about how to implement double blind testing protocols for all audiophiles before they spoke about their system impressions or about reviewers before they review... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Why did you not listened to me and spoke about your friend Edgar invention instead of this crusade about double blind test for all ? You would have been useful for all here, even for me because i read about it in awe but dont own it , but instead... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Now psychanalysing your motives and explaining your obsession for double blind test by the stress resulting from your discovery that we cannot trust our ears (which fact is not even wrong but which fact is not true either because we can and must l... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Nobody negate the usefullness of double blind testing... You dont get it scottwheel .. But nobody here confuse laboratory protocols with home listening and audio optimization as a hobby ... I dont need double blind testing protocol before purch... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? From wikipedia : «In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it.» Then someone who trust his ears someday suddenly discovered that he could not trust them anymore ...... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Double blind test are not science , they are tool useful for example in pharma research coupled with statistic , never on an individual basis ... Simple blind test are useful tool in the designing process on an individual basis NEVER as debunking ... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Exactly! I tried by two times to discuss rationally with him to no avail ... The last time he extracted my sentence of his context to made his obsessive point about double blind testing ...😁 I renounce to discuss with him ... He is of good faith... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? He is afraid of his own ears testimony.... Sorry i could not resist ... 😊 | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? My criteria is mainly acoustic parameters and factors on which i can act as did your "friend" Edgar; not double blind test ...😊 I learned to trust and trained my ears enough to do a minimally satisfying job... You said yourself that you dont trus... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Psychoacoustics laboratory double blind test statistical research dont means that any perceived qualia in your living room is a deceptive illusion if you dont go for a double blind test ... Think about the complete absurdity of such claims over t... | |
| How good is good enough? I am now happy with the tube preamplifier P2 of Douk... I use it for my active speakers... Astounding for the price , better holography and the tone controls are useful to maximise the speakers sound ... Peanu... | |
| Best sounding headphones you have owned? Which Hifiman model ? I try to like the He 400 but never succeed even after modifying them ... 😊 For sure they are not the best Hifiman but not the worst either ... Artificial timbre inside the head ... Didnwn them, but best i heard was Hifiman... | |
| Best sounding headphones you have owned? 😊State of the art sound for a relatively low cost is one of my headphone systems: Hidizs dac+equalizer+battery= 200 bucks...( low noise floor) Sansui alpha 607i = 300 bucks ( one of the best amplifier ever designed by Sansui) AKG K340 the... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? I thought i was pretentious ego... And i am a bit for sure or perhaps more than a bit and i apologize...😁 But some beat me patronizing every hobbyist as deceptive and deceiving because we dont use only and essentially double blind test as the onl... | |
| Nearfield listening - once more Good nearfield listening must be done in a very small room .. And the acoustic control of this small room matter very much for the S.Q. in near field listening ... The speed of sound is such that in a room under 13 feet , the reflected waves fro... |