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| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Prof: We don't disagree here about, well, anything, I think. Granted: all causal relationships "presuppose" a connection between cause and effect, and the correlation (sorry: causation) between certain measurements and the correlative subjective i... | |
| Balanced versus single ended As usual in situations like this, a middle ground is probably closed to the truth. Hence: "it depends." Robert Harley, in The Complete Guide to High-End Audio, concedes that, in certain circumstances, balanced connections may sound better, but tha... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Prof: interesting point about how a measurement (e.g., a 4 dB boost at 150 Hz) can express a "subjective impression" to another specialist who speaks the language of decibels and Herz. Of course, this presupposes that the subjective correlate ("wa... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Don't know how or why this discussion got off onto this particular set of rails, but hey: this is my wheelhouse, actually. I've done a lot of thinking recently about AI and "consciousness." The new GPT-3 AI program is formidable; what it can do l... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole gregm: agreed. I think. The uncertainty concerns what "consistency" would mean here. Am I "thorough"? Yes, I hope so. "Spontaneous"? Sure—at least when I'm not too concerned with being "thorough." Do I prefer baroque, classical, romantic? Yes! But... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Ah! Prof, I just looked at your thread—and realized why I recognized your "name" on this forum! I actually copied and pasted that thread some time ago into a document for storage in my "audio" file on the hard drive of this laptop, for future refe... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Prof—and yet again, mahgister, and mijostyn too: thanks so much for your insightful comments. Prof, I will look at your "thread"; this is just the sort of writing about audio I love to read: about the equipment, but grounded in an appreciation of ... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Thanks, prof (from one to another, apparently) for taking my OP seriously. However, I suppose I buried what I’d meant to be a fairly simple point in too much philosophical baggage, and confused even a careful reader like you. You suggest that my o... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Probably very few are still following this thread, so I'm going to risk a few provocative comments. First, as to objective measurements. The scientifically-trained engineers who create the stuff we buy rely heavily on measurements to work their m... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole I give up. Mahgister, how you can think I'm "attacking" you is a mystery. I did not "equate" you with teo_audio; if anything, I was contrasting the two of you. The point about the dubiousness of the "objective" is the only point of contact here, a... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Wow. Although I am a philosophy professor, and I have started "philosophical" discussions on this site before, I didn’t intend this one to be. "deludedaudiophile" is not deluded about this: all I was suggesting is that, if a forum like this exists... | |
| objective vs. subjective rabbit hole Thanks to mrmb for directness: "I buy equipment based on my sonic preferences; more importantly however, I almost exclusively come here to read posts from others regarding their personal sonic preferences and experiences." And to mitch2 for call... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers grisleybutter: sorry, I jumped the gun. A first cursory look led me to think all the products were Slovenian. In any case, thanks for this link. I've looked at a lot (too much!) audiophile eye candy online, but this is by far the best single sou... | |
| most beautiful (looking) speakers Thank you, grisleybutter, for the link to Slovenian speakers. I was not aware of any of these, although I’ve spent some time in Slovenia: in Ljubljana and Maribor, but also in Bled, where the cover photo--lake with island monastery--was taken. "Th... | |
| The mystery of good acoustics ozzy62: Yes, of course, you’re absolutely right. And it’s not just the loveseat; the coffee table, too, is an obvious no-no. But I addressed those objections (or rationalized them!) in the narrative. My "system conception" includes the visual aest... |