pabelson
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| Good Semi-automatic Turntables ? I went looking for one in the mid-90s, and the only ones I came across were Dual (which had just simply terrible speed regulation) and Thorens, which didn't always shut off, though that might have been fixed with a simple adjustment. I figured I m... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Puremusic: Psychoacoustics and neuroscience are already way ahead of you. In fact, the kinds of things that get argued about in audio circles aren't even being researched anymore, because those questions were settled long ago.Just to take one exam... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Stever: You're absolutely right. And no one's ever claimed otherwise. All that's been claimed is that one brand of 12-gauge copper cable sounds exactly like another. If you want to make cables sound different, you have to make them *very* differen... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Serus: You're the one who's ignoring observations. You're ignoring all the cases where people have claimed to hear differences where there really were none to be heard (like where the switch wasn't flipped). Ignoring half the data is not the way t... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? It is totally beyond me why anyone would have such distrust of what they hear to rely on DBT.Apparently so. The explanation is simple: If you understand what scientists have learned about human hearing perception over the course of decades, then y... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Yes, Qualia, we are asking the same question. It's the same question that subjectivists have been asked for years, and they don't have an answer, so they have to stoop to insulting people's intellectual integrity, as Gregadd has just done yet agai... | |
| a great take on big$ cables But I do know why it sounds different. It sounds different because you don't even bother to level-match before you do comparisons. Or it "sounds" different because you imagine it to sound different. That's the science you don't know. Go learn it. | |
| a great take on big$ cables Where to begin, Serus? Just because you don't know the science doesn't mean the science doesn't exist. The study of human hearing is over 150 years old. Audio is not some brand new, revolutionary theory that requires confirmatory tests no one's im... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? TBG: Two amps that reproduce music differently enough to be heard will NOT sound identical in a DBT. But how do we know that two amps reproduce music differently? You say they do, but how do we know you are right? Let me pose the question a bit di... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Gregadd: If you were talking about the response of a single objectivist, you should have named him right up front. Instead, you tagged all objectivists as dishonest, based on your interactions with one man. That's an understandable error, but it's... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Serus: How do you know they don't sound the same? How do you know you're not imagining a difference where none exists? The answer is, you don't know, and you can't know unless you compare them blind. So if you want to claim they sound different, y... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Suffice it to say that Gregadd's history of DBTs is almost entirely false. They were in use long before the invention of the ABX Comparator, which was just a convenient tool to do what we already knew how to do. If you go back and look at what 're... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Let's not be so selective about what neuroscience has been discovered, John. It, along with psychoacoustics, has indeed discovered that it can take time to learn the sound of something, and the difference in sound between things. But they've also ... | |
| Best budget bookshelf speakers for 3-600 dollars. Daimbert, no criticism intended here, but you do seem a bit befuddled, and I'm not sure a dozen more posts recommending different speakers is going to solve that problem. So my first suggestion is to stop asking for advice and get out and listen t... | |
| a great take on big$ cables So, Serus, IF the boombox amp isn't clipping, and IF you equalize frequency response, THEN it will sound the same as a component system (assuming reasonable levels of IM and THD). So what? If you eliminate all the factors that make things sound di... |