Phil Leigh;574340 Wrote: > Well there are some fairly heavyweight "philosophers" who basically > agree with that ad absurdio argument
I didn't mean to take it to that extreme, just that there are fields like psychology where most knowledge has resulted solely from human observation until fairly recently. I guess some of the people on here would say that because human observation was involved there was simply no point in pursuing these fields at all or that we should not believe a single accepted idea from those fields now. :) Anyway, this could go on and on, but just let me finish this by describing the results of my latest subjective listening tests. I recently got a Touch and then bought a new DAC, and I did this to a large extent to be able to play 96/24 material. So now I have been conducting listening tests with 96/24 and 44/16 versions of some tracks. So let's go over my supposed biases: (1) bought Touch and DAC specifically to be able to play hi-res material; (2) hi-res material is much "better" than CD quality with larger word size and sampling rate; (3) hi-res material is more expensive; (4) I want my system to be able to resolve the differences that must exist; (5) I want my ears to be able to hear these differences. Geez! That is quite a list of reasons for me to be biased to hear differences. Looks like pretty much a slam dunk if you are to believe people like Dan, with his loony audiophile straw man. And yet...I do not reliably hear a difference in sound quality that I can ascribe to the hi-res tracks. Wait, what??? How on earth could I have reached that conclusion with so very many factors biasing me to conclude the opposite???? How indeed! -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
