Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio

No correlation between intelligence and visual skills, science says.

That is the implication of a new study which shows for the first time that there is a broad range of differences in people’s visual ability and that these variations are not associated with individuals’ general intelligence, or IQ. The research is reported in a paper titled "Domain-specific and domain-general individual differences in visual object recognition" published in the September issue of the journal Cognition and the implications are discussed in a review article in press at Current Directions in Psychological Science.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-visual-intelligence-iq.html

Same goes for hearing vs intelligence.

Appealing to authority or those who sound like they know something, does not correlate with excellent hearing skills. It’s all over the map.

Which shows that bringing a well spoken argument about how humans can’t possibly hear beyond measurements, is a full on red herring. When the evidence brought by many hundreds of thousands says different, then the well spoken argument means nothing.

Science agrees with this basic premise and point. At least in the idea of minimally tested theory (this is one test of many that have been done in this area). Which is all science can be, which is well tested theories, not facts. Einstein and Feynman and any scientist of renown you can quote -understand that science works this way. Science does not dictate reality into unknowns... it merely attempts to describe reality as witnessed. Nothing more.

Those who can’t ’see’ that, will continue to ramble and attack. Until they stop.

To be replaced by another who still does not get it.

Those who can't 'see' the difference between cables will never admit that their hearing is not skilled/ sensitive enough It's easier for them to jump to the false conclusion that all cables are the same.

Picture quality is a whole different thing from sound quality IMHO. For TVs folks march down to their local Best Buy or Target or whatever, check out a few TVs in their price range and figure out right away which one they like. They know what colors look like and constrast and saturation, without any doubt. Any yahoo in town can easily see differences among TVs. But audio is a completely different animal. Audiophiles stress over everything. One problem I suspect is that audiophiles for all their bluster aren’t very sure of what their listening to and uncertain as to how to proceed to improve whatever it is they've got. it's a sticky wicket.

Having been involved in work on video projection engines(how individual circuits I gear affects final outcome), both analog and digital, the optical intricacies (glass coatings, lens design, etc)..the screens, their placement, their design at the (photonic/atomic level)..the interlacing and associated scaling algorithms, and so on....basically the entire pathway..even the entire package of the image capture devices (including their fundamental physics) ..the entire package, in all it’s minute and interconnected overarching intricacies -and many aspects that folks don’t generally understand yet....and then going back to how people see...how they see differently...

....I can say that visual people suffer from the same complex issues as do the audio people.

I've done probably...1000-1500 'single cause analysis' tests in the video work in these mentioned areas. At least double that number in the world of audio. This is why I'm (now) in my 50's and getting into finally publishing works as product. The apprenticeship was fairly long it seems.... I like pure research, and selling product, building product - kills the fun of pure research. It's a grist mill, business is..it can ruin a mind and a life with ...well..what we see here in these threads. I avoided it as long as I could.