Of course you can provide lots of similar stories, but unfortunately none of them have anything to do with DBT. Your story shows that a guy bought a new toy, hooked it up to his stereo that he hadn't listened to in years, and, mirabile dictu, liked it! *shrug* It would have been far more remarkable if he had not liked it. As for EEG, while I look forward to seeing your test results, I don't think they will show much of interest unless they show a change in brain activity in listeners in controlled double-blind conditions who also report hearing no difference. That might be interesting if you can consistently connect the change to a "sound" difference which is not consciously audible. Of course, emotional responses to "inaudible" infrasonics have long been known, so that's not exactly newsworthy either.
Unless you plan on doing intracranial EEG (not recommended...definitely, definitely not recommended), I think any results you might achieve are from a fishing expedition into noise (if you look hard enough, a pattern can be found
). Actually, probably even *with* intracranial EEG...It, like fMRI, is a pretty blunt tool. A lot of papers in this part of the world (fMRI/EEG) are kind of painful to read because they attribute too much to some variations in firing sequences and blood flow, and the public-at-large's reaction to horrid press reports about said bad papers are a couple orders of magnitude worse.
I used to train gun dogs and every one of them had trouble loading the gun. .
If a Polish bear could do it:
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-34748795>
I did think of posting a link to a site with page after page of comments on what idiots audiophiles are. At the end of the day if you even consider for one second a $50k pair of headphones it's a vanity purchase.
I think any results you might achieve are from a fishing expedition into noise (if you look hard enough, a pattern can be found
Perfectly suited to high-end audio, then.
Perfectly suited to high-end audio, then.
I'm having a lovely image in my head of a bunch of EEG-clad "audiophiles" trying to listen to music over the racket of of an MRI. It's perfectly absurd.
The Pono story sounds like a really cheap marketing.
The guy couldn't listen to music and then with his new miracle toy he discovered joy of music again...
I bet the wife in the kitchen noticed it too. Although Max still has the trump with Axl in the stadium
I love when people not having the foggiest clue about quantum mechanics are calling quantum mechanics in support for any BS they conveniently accept.
It would help reading Susskind or any other similar book, at least for a basic understanding the complexity and the intricate world of QM. Once the basics are understood, it will become clear there's not much mystery in "quantum entanglement", and that "QM paradoxes" are only coming from attempts to interpret QM through our human intuition, or from mixing up classic mechanics with QM.
Flashnews: QM does NOT contradict causality.
Charles, good to hear from you. Of course, I agree with you. We could never make better audio products IF we relied on DBT almost exclusively. Yet, we can make better audio products if we use everything in our experience and trust our ears. Many of these people just don't know what you or I do to get the best audio quality, and they are not about to learn.
Huge, no evidence for that and why 1V? An afternoon with a Quantech will show that.
Yes and folks conveniently ignore interviews with the very physicists doing the experiments and their exasperation at the exaggerations and extrapolations of the popular press.
The behavior of a small ensemble of fundamental particles trapped in multi-Tesla fields at cryogenic temperatures has little to do with audio. The double slit delayed choice experiment does not either nor does not violate causality.
Why limit yourself to *just* audio?
Reminds me why I'm a fan of Feynman's intellectual humility. (Shared by many others, to be fair)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sAfUpGmnm4
. . . And this from the guy that calls IC's 'dirty bits of sand' and claims he can hear the difference between ebony cable lifters and oak ones.
Yawn indeed.
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No what is PVC?
. Around here you mark things with "iron pins". Just so you can locate them later. But of course you knew you can't dowes for plastic either.
Bonsai, give it a break, will you? Charles and I have tried almost all audio quality IC's for suitability. It's part of our job. We just look DEEPER into potential sonic quality IC problems than most here, and often have to reject them. Sometimes we design them in, like I did with the AD712, and sometimes then we have to design them out, due to subjective or even objective conclusions after the fact. You guys would stubbornly keep with something that has been found 'fatally flawed' just because you can't understand how why a particular IC could even make a difference.
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