andy_c Wrote: > > I have no issue with people going with what works for them, based on > uncontrolled subjective experiments. I do this myself with my own > system all the time. But there is a difference between saying "X works > for me" and saying "X is true". The difference is that people will > claim these results to be some kind of indisputable fact when no > controlled experiments have ever established that. The idea is that > once an assertion has been repeated often enough, it is considered to > be true, regardless of the facts of the matter. This phenomenon is > known rather harshly as the "big lie theory".
Andy - Perfectly summed up. We measure what we can up to a point, and beyond that we just "believe". -- Kurt Main Entry: au·dio·phile Pronunciation: 'o-dE-O-"fI(-&)l Function: noun : a person who takes the pursuit of high-fidelity sound reproduction so seriously that they don't have to listen to music anymore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2153 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26332 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
