magiccarpetride;687936 Wrote: > I'm afraid you may have misunderstood my extremely simplistic > illustration. It is not that I intend to tightly couple 'sighted' with > visual only. By sighted I mean being aware which of the two > 'components' (in my example, one 'component' would be an extremely > bodacious looking eligible woman, while the other 'component' would be > a less attractive eligible woman) are currently 'functioning'. My point > is that if a subject is not aware of which of the two women he is > spending time with during the 'blind' test, he may have trouble telling > them apart (they both function pretty much to his satisfaction). > However, the moment the subject is given a choice, he will go for the > more 'prestigious' choice (in his personal opinion, based on his > personal likes and dislikes, which as we all know strongly gravitate > toward the more curvaceous woman). > > And since we're seeing the same pattern in many choices of audio > components (i.e. going for the component that we reckon will be more > prestigious for us), all I'm saying is why fight it?
So prestige is important for choice of audio equipment, eh? I guess I don't consider my audio equipment of high enough priority to seek out the prestige... sounding great is good enough for me. -- Archimago ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
