magiccarpetride;684665 Wrote: > In scientific terminology, the activities you've described above are > called 'fishing for results'. It's a legitimate strategy in scientific > circles, because by doing even a random set of repeated trial-and-error > activities, one may stumble upon empirically valid set of data. After > that, one is advised to devise a more sober set of proper experimental > methodology, which is what the previous poster was referring to.
I see how you might interpret what I said this way. I didn't go into complete detail in my response, but at least in my field, experiments without any theory-based hypothesis are not a good thing. Without the theory as a foundation for the hypothesis being tested, I agree this would be a fishing expedition and not valid. Sort of like most of the tests of "tweaks" reported in this thread. Many of the questions for the tweakers posted here are in a sense asking for the theory underlying the hypothesis of "different sound" being tested. -- 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=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
