Beware the audio guru

Geoff, you don’t seem to have a clue how critical thinking and consistency works.

The way you think I should operate when being skeptical is the opposite of being skeptical! No wonder you push teleportation tweaks!

I have a very heavy, expensive, delicate turntable. The isolation shelf is a major contraption. I was not able to listen to the turntable before I had my rack re-built to accommodate the turntable (which included adding the layering/isolation components).

Therefore I had no before and after to compare.

And now that I have the shelf and turntable set up, how in the world am I to do any practical back and forth testing? Listen...take disassemble the turntable taking it off the shelf, take the shelf off, put the turntable back on and listen again? Then if I want to switch back to compare...do all that again and again? That would of course be absurdly impractical, not to mention the last thing I want would be my delicate turntable risking mayhem every time I had to disassemble the system and put it back to do any such back and forth.

And what am I going to do if I wanted to blind test it; yell out to my helper "ok, I heard it with the isolation stand - now disassemble the turntable and take it off the stand!"

As I’ve said: sometimes - often even - blind testing for some differences may be impractical to impossible in a domestic setting. So in no way do I say everyone needs to be doing this, including myself.

BUT...as I wrote before...I therefore scale my claims to the level of evidence I have. I don’t have any tests or evidence that my isolation base altered the sound of my vinyl playback vs no base. So I simply don’t make the claim either way.

That you can not recognize the reasonableness of this speaks volumes.

(A lot of this changes for manufacturers, though, who could in many more practical cases produce iterations of an item - with and without tweak X - and compare them in a listener-bias- controlled fashion).

Objectivity is a state of mind in a purely subjective reality. Everything in this place runs through a subjectivity fundamental filter.

Objectivity is merely and agreed upon individually derived mindset. Objectivity only exists in your mind. It’s a convention. A concept. A projection. Nothing more.

Anyone who thinks objectivity is a real thing, really needs to get back to psych 101 class and get mentally slapped about and around for quite a while, until they let go of that fundamental logic error. :)

Everyone agrees on orange.

In reality there are 7 billion interpretations of orange, and not one of them is the same.

Ear/brain combinations are far worse in this respect, regarding the level of individuation of differences.

It's like i always said, never believe what you hear you'll hear, only believe what you hear, hear?

@prof - sorry, I just filed your last angst ridden post under Whatever. I have a sign over my desk, Never Argue with a Pseudo Skeptic. 

The fuse does only what fuses do, they don't provide any part of the tone of any device unless they're blown, in which case they do have an effect in that things shut down so there's simply no tone at all. The "inconstant non-repeating odd order harmonic" issue isn't an actual thing, nobody needs to worry about that or shell out big bucks simply because somebody coated the fuse case with graphene or fairy dust. It's a fuse.