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Bargain Priced SACD Giant Killer?
Cwlondon, I think that every once in a while there is a unit that has high value for the dollar in many people's opinions. Since many have limited budgets a large number rush to it. They often then question whether anything more expensive can be w... 
The Clever Little Sharp
Z, is not my answer obvious? 
Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?
Z, mine to. 
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Zaikesman, who says I have not done this? Who says it has any relevance to others or should convince others?This is not about truth, it is about enhancing the reproduction of music. As such, a simple demonstration at CES two years ago, convinced s... 
Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?
Sherod, from its conception this thread has not been to discuss the CLC but rather to dismiss it. There is considerable more heat than light generated here. As a reading of the thread will also show, the principles involved would dearly wish it wo... 
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Jayboard, you say, "I think that suggesting that something is beyond science is a trump card that should not be invoked too rapidly, and that doing so is not healthy for the development of our hobby." I am not suggesting it is beyond science, but ... 
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Jayboard, I am not the one dragging science into such discussions. Those who dismiss devices as without scientific explanation and demanding that "science" in the guise of DBTesting are doing the dragging. I am making three points.One is that scie... 
Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?
Joeylawn36111, Audioari1, and Albert, I could not agree more. This is why I suggested that such present or not present tests may not validly assess whether the CLC is working or not. Zaikesman, you are assuming that no one can hear a difference, b... 
Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?
Tonnesen, you are actually arguing against statistical significance but are right. If you get a very large random sample of people, there will be statistically significant differences heard between with and without the CLC. But you are wrong that ... 
Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity?
Zaikesman and Tonnesen, as you know, tests of statistical significance are sensitive to how big the sample is. With a sample of 25,000, any relationship will prove statistically significant. Since we are all too willing to say that a relationship ... 
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Guidocorona, you and I have been through this repeatedly. My point, over and over again, is that science is incomplete and that most advances come from anomalies in observations of reality. I have yet to try the CLC and dearly wish that I could ha... 
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No mountain of math, usually an observation that is implausible. I am not saying by any means that the CLC is such, but your mockery is irresponsible for a scientist. 
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Onhwy61, I certain don't see myself as a critic of science, just as a critic of how much we know through science, at least thus far. Certainly good science is always prepared for a paradigm shift where we realized what we thought we knew was wrong. 
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Guidocorona, speechless but yours is just an alternative hypothesis nevertheless. 
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Zaikesman, while you are more reasonable than many others demanding experiments to "prove" an effect, you also fail to realize that the so-called placebo effect works both ways. Prior conceptions, such as yours, that there could be no effect can c...