zaikesman
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| Levinson repair costs? My 380S can sometimes be afflicted by scaling glitches with the photo-read rotary volume control beyond the unity-gain point. Anybody have that problem and pay ML to get it fixed? | |
| The Clever Little Sharp I'm just waiting for the day when an audiophile comes on one of these forums and declares how much better his sound is now that he's castrated himself. The result might be grisly, but on the positive side it could help tone down the rancor of thes... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Puremusic: That might seem a reasonable hypothsis, but I doubt it's actually true -- listening to a piece of music once and then again is not analogous to staring at a static image until it's 'burned' on your retina. Otherwise, if it were, we not ... | |
| The Clever Little Sharp Nice post Jayboard, glad to make your acquaintance. | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? And BTW, about that preamp shootout, I once lassoed my girlfriend into doing the same kind of blind test. She's not an audiophile and couldn't care less, but she was easily able to immediately and consistently discern at least some of the sonic di... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Again, I don't disagree with the point everybody makes about auditioning and testing. But I still say an experience like the one Audioari1 relates about the $10K preamp vs. the $200 one -- if true and valid (meaning if this actually happened, and ... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Miklorsmith: I agree (and have detailed before) that there can be problems with formal testing methodologies as applied to subjective auditioning. I do think some kinds of testing can introduce a "confusion factor" that may actually serve to artif... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Oh, you're talking about random choosing of listeners? I don't think this is necessary, or even desirable. I'd rather limit the listener pool to audiophiles who believe in the audibility of these tweaks. | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Tbg, I'm afraid I hope you're more clear (and relevant, I dare say) with your students...From what I can tell though, you've got at least one thing basically wrong there:"I am merely saying that such tests may not be a valid method to prove or dis... | |
| Fat Tuesday: Katrina Recovery & Donations Progress Thanks for letting us know a bit of what you experience daily, GR45. I visited NO twice, but not since the beginning of the 90's, and my gal of the past 10 years has never been. I went to the Jazz & Heritage Fest once back then, and today I so... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? You're welcome Bigjoe! | |
| The Clever Little Sharp Sorry I didn't respond to you above Tgun5, we must have been composing at the same time. I don't want to rehash everything that has been written, but most of what you say is confirmation of what I see as the problems inherent in your assumptions:"... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Tgb: Like Tonnesen, I don't know what you intend by that quote (it almost sounds like you're saying "statistics can prove anything"). We're only saying that A) you can't roll dice once or twice and learn how "lucky" you are, and B) tests need cert... | |
| email A. J. Van Den Hul Thank you, I may have to try that if I can't get my own cartridge problem resolved... :-( | |
| The Clever Little Sharp 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 condition not hearing one.Tgb, this is a perfectly valid point, and one I stipulated way back in my fir... |