A bit of light penetrating oil is hardly snake oil, and certainly not quantum mechanical.
It could be cheaper than running it on male cow juice.... not by much, but as they say:
Every little helps!
Still do.
I also have HD music/streaming radio sounding different across home WiFi network.....modem/router > mobile phone > 3.5-2RCA > Samsung surround system and speakers/sub or Yamaha receiver and Stax headphones.
Is the wireless data transfer>D/A converter system sensitive to phase noise, or is it something different ?.
Ok, now you are stretching it, I have never made such claim.
Dan.
Of course the moon affects our audio systems, much more than cable differences!
Around every full moon period I have to adjust the stylus tracking force and anti-skating, I can hear the difference every day for a period of two weeks and it's getting on my nerves with all the fiddling... and what is worse is the arriving of planet Nibiru!
Around every full moon period I have to adjust the stylus tracking force and anti-skating, I can hear the difference every day for a period of two weeks and it's getting on my nerves with all the fiddling... and what is worse is the arriving of planet Nibiru!
All you need to do is take a cursory look at the ratio of male to female on this forum to clearly show there is a gender-specific relationship to the subject matter. This points to physiological as well as sociological reasons that mirror other “male-centric” activities and hobbies.
For example, “car culture” is often dominated by males, and that fast, flashy luxury cars are often linked (in peer reviewed studies) with testosterone and mate seeking behavior.
The strong similarities in hobbyist pursuits point to a relationship between reproductive fitness / sexual desirability / testosterone and audio.
So addressing the topic at hand velcroing a Bybee into your underpants addresses the root cause of the initial purchase impulse.
Whatever positive effects are attained will likely satiate the secondary motivations in audio-tweak-dom.
Thus, a Bybee in your underpants ( given that it provides the claimed result) would actually be a breakthrough in overall audio enjoyment.
Some further reading:
Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to Win - Joe Herbert - Google Books
The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature: Gad Saad, David M. Buss: 9781616144296: Amazon.com: Books
Mechanophilia - Wikipedia
YouTube
Whoa! You weren't just pulling our collective peg, heh.
(Crap, I'm all out of popcorn! BRB...)
I meant wrt the test conditions specified in the link you gave.
HVAC noise level and noise spectrum consideration is a parameter that I have not seen mentioned in other such papers.
This is actually a very important consideration, and a major differentiation between relatively short term DBT/ABX testing in a 'commercial' environment or longer term AB testing in a 'home' environment.
So feel free to go ahead and ask me about the parameters to listen out for that I am 'talkin' bout' in my testing and experience with BQP and other 'filters'....
There have been plenty of 'theoretical' based objections as to why changes of behavior of audio systems cannot be possible, but there have never been any real questions as to the nature of the 'subjective' changes observed.
Always remember that science is about explaining the observed.....from observation comes theory and then extrapolation....and confirmation.....maybe.
Dan.
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Is this your super revealing system that lets you hear things that stay hidden to most others?
TBH I never hope to have too much discriminating hearing or system... it will be impossible to listen to anything else 🙄
It don't imply if people hear thing I don't hear or vice-versa, or if some things are hard ot explain
Well, there is something special that my grandmother's kitchen radio does. It isn't revealing. It has no imaging. It has high distortion and narrow frequency range. Low slew rate as well.
But it's a total goose bump machine, something I miss from about 99.9% of high end stereos.
I tried various types of distortion effects in various places but couldn't get that. Limiting frequency response didn't do it either.
But it's a total goose bump machine, something I miss from about 99.9% of high end stereos.
I tried various types of distortion effects in various places but couldn't get that. Limiting frequency response didn't do it either.
ABX again...
To return to a very cool subject ( 😛 ), theABX testing...
Time ago I though this is a snake oil for audio 😱
Because of our hearing system (auditory "imaginary" prediction, etc).
I love to test this with other people (and to see if I don't hearing things 😉 ):
When I test a codec with same continuous track (eg. high bitrate MP3 to PCM), my confidence ratio is higher when I make a very brief pause. Like a ABX that permits one to select "ZERO" output when one wants (limited to a brief time) (AB0X). Or if I de-sync ramdomly the track. My impression is that the brain "builds" the missing information on lossy CODEC, or ignore the new information, when switching to higher quality with continuous track. (and how lossy CODECs works, probably includes this).
And some "space monkeys" in high bitrate lossy CODECs appears only for a brief time with some music. A short testing is futile here.
Is a example. In fact I prefer to speak about amplifiers but I don't want to start a new 1000 page discussion 😛
So, in this sense, the plain continuous ABX will de-sensitize this kind of testing. Or I missed something here? 😕
To return to a very cool subject ( 😛 ), theABX testing...
Time ago I though this is a snake oil for audio 😱
Because of our hearing system (auditory "imaginary" prediction, etc).
I love to test this with other people (and to see if I don't hearing things 😉 ):
When I test a codec with same continuous track (eg. high bitrate MP3 to PCM), my confidence ratio is higher when I make a very brief pause. Like a ABX that permits one to select "ZERO" output when one wants (limited to a brief time) (AB0X). Or if I de-sync ramdomly the track. My impression is that the brain "builds" the missing information on lossy CODEC, or ignore the new information, when switching to higher quality with continuous track. (and how lossy CODECs works, probably includes this).
And some "space monkeys" in high bitrate lossy CODECs appears only for a brief time with some music. A short testing is futile here.
Is a example. In fact I prefer to speak about amplifiers but I don't want to start a new 1000 page discussion 😛
So, in this sense, the plain continuous ABX will de-sensitize this kind of testing. Or I missed something here? 😕
Same thing with the old RBA/RBC military radios or even a 50's Zenith Transoceanic.
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