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OK, for the sake of argument, let's accept that it was a placebo effect. But what caused it? Because surely for a placebo effect, there has to be some form of suggestion, eg. a sugar pill in the case of a medical effect. I made a change to my system, ie, I installed Squeezecenter on my main PC and listened to that instead of the music server PC. I had been told that Squeezecenter was quite an improvement over Slimserver but have been auditioning hi-fi long enough not to have any preconceptions. Initially I didn't really notice much difference. It was only after a few days, and then over a period of about 10-14 days that I realised I wasn't actually enjoying what I heard. I keep a diary of any modifications that I make to my system but hadn't written in the the bit about changing PC's etc. So I can't see that the idea of a placebo effect is applicable in this case. -- Nuuk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nuuk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4844 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48430 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
