Something For The Fuse Guys ...

Frank,

The exact same argument you just gave  is made for psychics, faith healers, new age therapies, spiritualists and alternative medicine and pretty much every dubious claim you can find.  People’s subjectivity can “confirm” the efficacy of just about anything anyone has dreamed up.

Thats actually a problem - a bug, not a feature - of human psychology to take in to consideration when it comes to staking claims on “what people think they experienced.”

And there are limited ways of trying to avoid dealing with this problem of separating real world properties vs human imagination.  The most common is to put the blame on the person skeptical of the claim: they either don’t have the secret power or mindset to detect what others detect, or they just don’t have he appropriate opennes of mind to get the experience.

If you feel that pull toward that type of “explanation” when there is no objective evidence for a claim, consider the company you keep with that excuse.  ;-)

The trouble with the professor’s theory of faith healing and mass hallucination is that the number of fuses isn’t just thousands we’re talking about here, folks, but closing in one 100,000. That’s some pretty bad juju if it’s a mass hallucination, professor. In fact, it would almost certainly be the biggest hoax even choreographed and executed by a coordinated group of fraudsters on naive gullible newbies. Most likely we just got us some mule-headed “skeptics” around here.

There goes GK making things up again to support his cause.

References for that fuse # please.

Regardless, the # of "audiophile" fuses sold has no relevance as does the # of all fuses ever sold which its a safe bet eclipses audiophile fuses by a massive margin. 

Not to mention that its mostly a small handful of people here who talk about them repeatedly. Gee I wonder why?

prof ...

Thanks for the interesting response.

I see where you’re coming from but I don’t think your analysis is relevant to the physical properties of hearing. Your argument is more attuned to the spiritual and not the physical realm. Here’s why I feel that way ...

The spiritual experience is not logical, it is illogical. It is not natural, it is supernatural. That’s why those who have not had a profound, overwhelming, spiritual experience ridicule those who have, or deny that the experience could even exist in the first place. And that’s why we have mountaintop retreats where cloistered Monks delight in spending their entire lives in prayerful rejoicing.

Notice that in the post you alluded to I didn’t say the doubters CAN’T hear. What I did say was that perhaps they don’t know what to listen FOR. That’s a big difference, and not intended to be a slight in any way.

I find it interesting that it is the same people in every fuse thread I’ve started who claim they cannot hear the difference. I say ... too bad for them. As for those who have taken the jump, they enjoy an improved listening experience almost every time. Hard to account for that.

Geoff is right ... Thousands upon thousands of aftermarket fuses sold by various manufacturers, and thousands of happy customers attesting to the viability of these fuse tweaks. Are they all just "imagining" an improvement in sound quality?

Frank

Mapman sez ...

• "Not to mention that its mostly a small handful of people here who talk about them repeatedly. Gee I wonder why?"  

So, maps, you've been one of the most prolific doubters in all of the various fuse threads, so I'd like to ask you what your best guess is as to the "why." 

Thanks ...

Frank