But the original topic of the tread was not about garden variety audiophiles ?
But the idea of a person always argue for misconceptions and popular audiophile beliefs not only because ( or not at all ) personal beliefs , but to the prepare the ground . Example if you sell expensive cables , you be outed quickly if you start to shill your brand in forums and press . But if you instead always argue in favour for exotic cables in general ? I liked snakeoiler btw. On the topic . The opposite to this behaviour .I never ever seen an article in the popular audio press discussing the limits of human hearing and psychoacoustic . Where do we stand , can we detect stuff -70dB below the signal 0.5% - 0.1% THD ( midrange , bass several % is undetectable ) ? This changes as research progress . Hence why I sometimes ask the simple question in some of the treads ." Show me that we can detect any anomaly at the ->100dB level regardless of origin " . That said of course I want equipment to perform much better than that , I'm after all some kind of audiophile I want good stuff . But as the discourse is not reality based high end stands still or reverse technically and gets more expensive at the same time . If the discourse was reality based , we thrown over expensive cables at the wayside by now for example and used our efforts in ways that really further the art . That's the thing audio press audiophiles and manufacturers spend their resources at stuff that does not really further the art of music reproduction , it will be so as long as money can be made . Hey pseudo science is much cheaper than real science just make stuff up ! Favorite example the amp brand Lavardin invented a new type of distortion that could not be measured in the traditional way ;) and oh yes their product also fixed that ( in reality their amps have quite a lot of distortion but of the ear pleasing kind ). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
