adamdea;681866 Wrote: > I have a theory that the value of the soundcheck mods is to cure the > cognitive dissonance people feel in the face of a $200 plastic device > which sounds just as good as a large cd player with a mil spec > aluminium face plate. The laws of audiophile placebo manipulation > decree that time spent tweaking (be it applying mains cables or adding > blu tack or fiddling with linux priorities)can eventually make up for > the absence of milspec faceplates or over-specified power supplies. > > I have noticed that some tweaking fanatics have pronounced after the > 3rd or 4th sequential night and day improvement that the touch now > sounds as good as their CDT into their dac (which of course it always > did.)
+1. And if you dare question their beliefs or suggest a double blind test, etc. you are attacked as either an idiot, a troublemaker, or typically just cast off as a person who's "system is obviously not resolving enough" (the last refuge of a scoundrel (audiophool). ;-) -- garym *Location 1:* VB Appliance 6TB (1.10) > LMS 7.7.1 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VB Appliance 3TB (2.0) > LMS 7.7.1 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.1 > SqueezePlay Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controllers: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92801 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
