Is positive reinforcement why things are sounding better?


So I buy a nice amplifier and later I buy a nice preamplifier and then later I buy Nice speaker cables and each time things seem to improve nicely.

And then I buy telefunken 12ax7 nos tubes for a tube amplifier, and improved tonality, clarity and  a tighter sound is what I get and it's very engaging (tubes are only a few days old). The cymbals seem to come through with more openness.

Things seem to be sounding pretty good and I'm saying to myself is it real or is it just positive reinforcement playing with my head? And the devil is telling me oh let's buy more NOS tubes for the rest of the amplifier. The effects of positive reinforcement can be very expensive. 

Just curious if positive reinforcement experiences have occurred for others, and how can you really tell?

 

emergingsoul

If you dont know anything else some confirmation biases will had an indefinite life span...😁

I really thought my Tannoy concentric dual gold which were legendary speakers, i really think for the 40 years i owned them that they sound good...😁

in truth because i had no acoustics concepts at all , I didn’t knew and had no way of knowing that they sound atrociously UNDER their optimal potential optimal level...

I never knew it and alas! i sold them BEFORE learning acoustics...

It is how an ignorant can own a top speakers and had never listened to them really ...

This ignorant was me ... 😊

 What i just said is so true that my actual  modified low cost speakers deliver an experience which is by some acoustic factors better than my past Tannoy even if they are an inferior design  . Performance go with the rightfull optimal   way we use the speakers specs in a system /room . A better design as with my Tannoy is not enough. We need to install the speakers in his optimal settings. 😎

 

Then confirmation bias are not mere only short lived placebo illusion , they can be a rightful positive opinion about some speakers which delude us about these speakers real potential because we are ignorant .

it is the reason why many reviewers delude us without willing to do it... It is why price tags conditioning works... Or legendary good reputation ...Plug and play and if it is a good product it will play good ...😆

Not always sorry and never so much better than if you had learned how to use it at the optimum acoustic level ...😊

 

 

+1 @mahgister 

Before I built a properly soundproof listening room and then spending a couple years finding the proper acoustic treatments for it to sound good to my ears, no way was I able to accurately assess the values, positive or negative,  of any piece of equipment.

thanks! your testimony is very clear!

You said it better than me and with few words...😊

 

This will help those who think that "tasting " the gear is the key...

Or those who think that measuring the gear specs anew is the key ...

We dont lack deluded people thinking acoustics concepts and parameters are secondary to gear price tags ...

 

+1 @mahgister

Before I built a properly soundproof listening room and then spending a couple years finding the proper acoustic treatments for it to sound good to my ears, no way was I able to accurately assess the values, positive or negative, of any piece of equipment.

if done right,  better equipment will sound better..and certainly changing tubes can make a significant difference...