arnyk wrote: > How is hearing a difference in a DBT really any different from hearing a > difference in any other context? It isn't.
Well, if you have drunk the cool-aid, the artificiality, forced conditions and pressure of DBT makes you less sensitive to differences - just like the bad vibrations caused by the presence of a sceptic in a room makes fairies less likely to show up. :) This effect of controls spoiling bad science is in no way restricted to audiophiles or parapsychologists - 'Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish' (http://www.nature.com/news/registered-clinical-trials-make-positive-findings-vanish-1.18181). "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104136 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
