Just as with all of our senses, doing is the proof. Sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing are all done by doing. "A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception." The premise of test equipment doing the listening for us is not possible. For one, a microphone is not a human ear. For another everyone has different sensitivities.
Some people are wired not to be as perceptive as others in audio. If kosst says he can’t hear it therefore it doesn’t exist, I for one am cool with that. As for many of us who can hear these things we should just accept that kosst can’t and move on. Does it really matter who can and who can’t? I think it only serves as a reference to know who does and who doesn’t for future talks.
What is sometimes weird to me is, after a person is here posting for awhile it’s easy to see that they are taking a position just to have one. They are going to make the same statements everywhere they go. None of us should be surprised that kosst is going to raise the "snake oil" flag every time he gets a chance. Like wise I will always say "everything affects everything else". Folks like kosst can’t hear certain changes and others can hear every slightest change, and the rest are somewhere in between. I think we just need to let it be what it is, cause I don’t see a lot of people all that willing to change.
We should be audio gentlemen above all, and respect that some do and some don’t. It would be scary if we all showed up at the same restaurant and all ordered the exact same meal wouldn’t it?
Michael Green
PS just saw this as Cleeds puts it nicely "Speaking of measurements, do you have any to support your claim "most people think this stuff is snake oil?"
