@mahgister,
"But dont forget that all ordinary humans are mostly trustful...."
Apparently experiments from the first part of the last century have shown that some 20% of the population are highly suggestible.
These are the kind of folk a hypnotist will usually seek out to join them on stage for the entertainment of everyone else.
More disturbingly it seems to also indicate that at least 1 in 5 of us is constantly ready and willing to believe virtually anything we are told.
Especially when it's by a person with some conferred authority.
Funnily enough there also seems to some 20% of folk who are not suggestible and unlikely to change their minds in any eventuality. I'm sure most of us have known the odd family member that was like that.
Of course I'd like to see myself as someone that's not so suggestible and only prepared to rely upon reason and data (ie in the middle group of 60%) but I know I'm not.
Not when it comes to audio (and certainly not when it comes to judging people but that's another story).
I've had my fair share of cognitive dissonance when it came to purchasing various bits and bobs over the years.
Every CD player that I bought was progressively more expensive and more worshipped by the audio press than its predecessor, and yet for some reason my mind recently has been going back to that cheap machine my friend borrowed me back in the late 90s when I was in-between decks.
I've WhatsApped him to see if he still has it - he might have as he's a bit of a hoarder.
If so I'd love to hear it again and compare it to my current player (Marantz CD6000ki) just to see how the two compare.
Everything tells me that the Marantz simply must be better and yet....I still remember, some 20 years later, of having being pleasantly surprised every time I'd put that machine on.
I seem to think it was an Aiwa (I hardly paid any attention to it at the time as I was then in the search for something far far better - or so I thought) but hopefully my friend will be able to find it and confirm it.
