doctor_big wrote: > > A point - I like nice, thick, well-made cables, ones that cost a lot of > money (which I can afford). I liken it to putting proper P0 tires on my > Maserati. Would General tires from Green and Ross do just as well for > way less money? Probably. Would I notice a difference? Probably not. > But I'm not gonna do it. I would KNOW they're sub-par for the car. > Same with my stereo. I won't put zip cord between my tube mono amp and > my $30k speakers. Does the cable I have in there now sound better than > zip cord? Seems to me like it does. Could I pick it out in an ABX > test? No goddamn way - I'm not stupid. But still, I think it sounds > best with these here high-end cables, so I'm going to leave them in. It > works for me. >
What we have here is delusion -- delusion that is understood to be such by the deluded, but still maintained. Self conscious delusion if you will. It seems to be maintained primarily by a certain amount of cognitive dissonance -- "I've invested all this money and time in addressing my audiophile interests, so when I encounter evidence that suggests that money and time has been sent into a black hole, I must absolutely refuse to consider demonstrable reality, even when I know the reality is real". I'm not an engineer or an audio scientist. But I AM a psychologist (capital P, Ph.D., research, conferences), and very familiar with the way in which belief can skew experience, and with the phenomena of cults and "true belief". Because felt experience is fundamentally subjective, we need to develop methods for achieving objectivity. Properly controlled research (which often makes use of gold standard double blind methods) is one way of doing so, as has been pointed out by many, at length. The fact that there are some, such as the poster quoted above, who persist in beliefs that at some level they know can't be true is a sad reflection of broader social reality. Climate change denial, anyone? R. LMS on a dedicated music server (FitPC3) Transporter (Ethernet) - main music listening, Onkyo receiver, Paradigm speakers Duet (WiFi) - home theater 5.1, Sony receiver, Energy speakers Boom 1 (WiFi) - work-space Boom 2 (WiFi) - various (deck, garage, etc.) Radio (WiFi) - home office Touch x 2 - awaiting deployment UE Radio - awaiting deployment Control - 2 Controllers (main listening, home theater, all others), Squeeze Remote (on Surface Pro 2), SqueezeControl (on Android mobile) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 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
