Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl?

kosst_amojan
Morphic fields!?!?!? I’ve been poking around physics for a while now but I’ve never come across Morphic fields. Sounds like you listen to lots of Coast to Coast AM. In the world of reality we call crap like that pseudoscience. State vector collapse within the framework of the Copenhagen Interpretation certainly doesn’t call for magical Morphic fields, and that’s the cornerstone concept concerning the observer’s relationship with the universe.

>>>>>See, that’s the difference between a real physicist and someone who just pokes around in physics. Your post is so reminiscent of what many skeptics and pretend skeptics say, "I looked everywhere but I could find no mention of it anywhere. So it must not exist." Maybe you just need to look harder, Pokey. 👀 I’m going to help you out. Remember I said I’m talking about psychological, not physiological, phenomenon. So there is no reason to assume Morphic fields must fit into the realm of physics per se. In fact, they actually don’t. They do not obey the laws of physics (physical science) so chances look good Morphic fields are not physics. First law of science - never assume anything.

toddverrone
I’m pretty sure morphic fields were laid by the wayside years ago. Sheldrake had great ideas, but the details didn’t seem to pan out.

Sorry, you might have listened to one too many pseudo skeptics. They said the same thing about gravity waves. And black holes. Morphic fields are alive and well, thank you very much. 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Heck, they even had a contest to prove or disprove them. Guess who won. 😳

stfoth
"Geoff--finally something on which I think I can sort of at least partially agree with you, although the distinction between the purely psychological and the physiological is getting blurred as more folks monkey with brains.

Has a mood affected hearing/perception? Has anyone had auditory hallucinations--"natural" or, ahem, induced? Synesthesia? Ever said, "Hey, did you say something?" when the he/she hadn’t made a peep? "Hear" more deeply into the music, when relaxed with a clear head? Had a great day and the birds chirped more loudly? Been irritable and every little annoying noise that’s usually tuned out now heard.

Not just hearing...every sense can be impacted in similar ways. Some of it is hormonal, too.

What’s this have to do with amps/preamps? Depends."

>>>>I am making a distinction between what we CAN control ourselves by action or thought and what we CANNOT control by action or thought. So I’m not really talking about drinking some wine or taking hallucinogens to get in the mood or change one’s perceptions. The mind matter interaction I’m referring to is a natural phenomenon that can be conscious, for example the sense that someone is staring at you, but usually it’s subconscious, so we’re not (rpt not) aware that the influence of our immediate surroundings, the local environment as it were, on our sensory perception is taking place. It’s all just factored into whatever we observe through our senses. We can make no distinction between say the distortion of a wire and the distortion of the mind matter interference. The mind matter interaction/interference does affect all senses, not just the sense of hearing. Think of it like interference on a radio channel. I.e., noise and distortion.

Yeah man, sorry, as far as a testable scientific theory, m fields are out. 

Wow. Morphic fields!

I cant believe how these threads just go completely into fantasy land. It seems like some Audiogoners are just intent on obfuscation.

Early on I point out that Benchmark has produced the worlds best performing (as measured) power amplifier (ABH2) and there is no interest.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/benchmark-media-systems-ahb2-power-amplifier-measurements

Quote "Benchmark Media Systems' AHB2 is an extraordinary amplifier. Not only does its performance lie at the limits of what is possible for me to reliably test, it packs high power into a very small package, especially when used in bridged-mono mode. It is truly a high-resolution amplifier".—John Atkinson



Is there anyone on Audiogon actually interested in high fidelity or is everyone just fixated on making up completely imaginary pseudoscience nonsense?