Why no “Break in” period?

rodman

Ok, so you are re-iterating what I pointed out you already said.Along with simply re-stating a disregard for known variables in human perception. (Again...would you have similar "disdain" for researchers who control for biases???? If so, you’d show yourself to be anti-science. If not, how do you imagine audio becomes magically separated from the problem variable of human bias?).

ie: ONLY experimentation, PROVES whether theories or opinions/biases are correct(no theory has ever proven anything).

What kind of experimentation "proves" it? The kind where you have no control for well-known biases, or the type where you control for it?

The second is PLAINLY an encouragement for OTHERS to trust THEIR ears, and the third speaks for itself.

How exactly does your truth theory work, in practice?

If for instance we sat down in front of your system, swapped AC cables, and you perceived a difference and I perceived no difference, which perception points to the truth? Are you justified in concluding from your perception that the cable objectively altered the sound signal? If so why would your perception be privileged in apprehending "The Truth" over mine?

Or would you grant that I would be justified in my conclusion, from my own perception that "there was no audible alteration to the sonic signal?"

Do you subscribe to some form of "everyone has their own truth" concept? (If so...have you ever thought that through)?

I’m just trying to understand what you actually mean, in practice, and it’s implications.

I sometimes imagine these guys with their wives, honey the coefficient of friction seems a little off tonight, but lets get Larry in here to double-blind you so I can be sure.

Funny.


I sometimes imagine audiophiles stopping otherwise normal parties to subject guests to demos of their audio tweaks like cable elevators, tuning bullets, unplugging and plugging in cable tweaks.

Real "life of the party" stuff.

Of course, that’s a joke. No audiophile is that tweak-focused to do that in real life to his guests.

;-)

Hey, does my girl break-in?  She's a bit stiff.  

prof
“Or would you grant that I would be justified in my conclusion, from my own perception that "there was no audible alteration to the sonic signal?"”

>>>>Sorry, pal. You actually wouldn’t be justified in drawing ANY conclusion from a single test. Especially since you haven’t even done the test. You’re supposed to do the test BEFORE you draw any conclusions. Hel-loo! A single test, no matter how well performed or thorough, has no meaning, especially if the results are negative. For one thing that’s to prevent overly enthusiastic pseudo scientists from claiming victory in some argument. But mainly it’s because it’s too difficult to control all the variables and too many things can go wrong. Furthermore, you haven’t even done the test and you’re already declaring victory. That’s gold, Jerry, gold!