seanadams;158249 Wrote: > However, when someone claims pefectly empirical improvements like "lower > noise power supply" with no rationale or data to back them up, I will > object. > > Your sentence above, said it all for me. If a modder or anyone else is > claiming (for example) a reduction in jitter when it can be measured and > disproven I hope you do speak up, and thank you for doing so. I agree > with your following post, as well. Once you clarified you mean > specific measurements when you say Transporter is "unsurpassed". If > someone is to claim you guilty of hype, then (given your clarification) > they should show on what specific measurement and against what specific > rival machine you have "overstated" your claim. > > I would hope that modders could show some empirical, instrumented, > improvements. On the other hand, I wouldnt claim a modder is full of > BS simply because all he could say is he performed listening tests and > found his mods sounded better. I would take that as information, even > if not very compelling information. It would be more compelling if he > could substantiate it was done independently, with a variety of > equipment, a variety of listeners, there was some control for bias, > listening was done over an extended period of time, etc. Of course, > most compelling would be if said modder could report results of > empirical listening tests. Having a social and not physical science > background I believe there is a way to make non-instrumented testing > empirical as well. Unfortunately, I dont think we have found it yet.
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