Well that's fine and good in the privacy of your home but to come on a forum and claim that some quantum tunnelling cables work without any rigorous testing or any attempt to understand what might be happening through modern measurements just seems a little like a religion to me or a placebo.
Again your standards are not mine. I have nothing to prove to or the other scientist here. You can ignore what I hear just I can ignore your thoughts. I use my experiences outside of my home to help others make their systems sound as good as they possibly can, if asked to do so. They would not agree that my experiences have no bearing on what they now enjoy.
I would agree with this. There are some objective truths to be targeted with reproduction.
I think it's when we try to notice things without controls and use visual cues - which can completely change the interpretation of the sound - where we get in trouble with our perception. If you want to notice a difference your brain can easily make you actually hear something which isn't present.
What you hear
you just don't get it. No one has questioned what you hear. Why do you (and others) keep putting words in others mouths that they don't say?? Does it make you feel superior?
It's what causes what you hear that is being discussed. You think it's cables, others believe you haven't diligently pursued other reasons for what you hear, and the possibility that expectation bias, among other things, may be at play. This is well known to be a major confounding issue in most any test and is difficult to eliminate without alot of work. You refuse to do this work, or even acknowledge that this may be a problem and accept that your interpretation may be flawed.
So all your blather about 'knowing what you hear is factual' is specious, irrelevant and, quite frankly, beyond the need for discussion, since no one is questioning it in the first place...
you just don't get it. No one has questioned what you hear. Why do you (and others) keep putting words in others mouths that they don't say?? Does it make you feel superior?
It's what causes what you hear that is being discussed. You think it's cables, others believe you haven't diligently pursued other reasons for what you hear, and the possibility that expectation bias, among other things, may be at play. This is well known to be a major confounding issue in most any test and is difficult to eliminate without alot of work. You refuse to do this work, or even acknowledge that this may be a problem and accept that your interpretation may be flawed.
So all your blather about 'knowing what you hear is factual' is specious, irrelevant and, quite frankly, beyond the need for discussion, since no one is questioning it in the first place...
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But without testing to confirm what you think is right you could potentially - in my opinion definitely - be leading people down the wrong path with your experience. I see it everyday on various forums - people claiming to be experts on a subject which is so new that really there are no experts. People want to just take experts words and run with them and wonder why at the end of the day there system has no "synergy". Well maybe it was because the supposed expert's methods are very crude - trial and error with an unlimited amount of resources.
Guys I never said I was a better judge in an absolute sense I was just saying it for the sake of the argument. I don't think anything is ever like this even though humans constantly are looking for an easy quantifiable answer like "Coke is better than Pepsi". With people and technology there are always strengths and weaknesses.
I am waiting for someone to tell me why I hear what I hear, rather than telling me that the differences do not exist. If I blather, it is to offset the innuendos from those that feel that are correct just because their understanding of the whole works, is not what I hear. Again I never asked anyone to agree with any of my views. They are mine and I enjoy them. If this upsets you, how is this my fault?
You hear what you hear because that is what your brain tells you to hear. Do I win a prize or something?
Sorry to ask but,how can you test to confirm that what you think is right?What is right?On the other hand,do you think that if you suggest a friend to buy a system that sounds decidedly fright,harsh and lacking in bass,he will listen to you and buy it because you believe is good?I think not.And this,not because he will test to confirm that what you think is right,but becase he will know that you are simply clueless about audio.When someone asks your help on what equipment to buy,does not mean he has no judgment.He has judgment,for both,the equipment and your opinion.
A lot of things I find can easily be tested privately with the aid of a computer. For instance I am listening to some music now on foobar which is a free program that comes with an ABX utility. You can do ABX testing in a pressure free environment where none of the results actually have to be shared - so I see no excuse to not attempting to test certain things if you plan on claiming them to be truths.
Well I will never say it has not happened, but after countless hours of comparisons, over many days at a time, I feel that I have trained my hearing to do what I expect it to do. If I can not repeat what I thought that I hear over and over during a course of listening, I deem it as an aberration. If I still hear it days and weeks later, I trust what I hear.
Yep. But it's not so much your ears lying as it is your brain lying to your consciousness.
How about those who say they don't hear a difference?What does their brain tells them?
How about those who have a weak sight?They don't see well because their brain tells them?Or is it that others have better sight because their brain tells them so?The brain tells you what you see depending on what information he gets from the eyes,or is it something else?
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