Mijo, We don't disagree, but I was not referring to involuntary reflex arcs or the manifestations of mental illness. I mean, when your wife asks you, "Does this dress make me look fat?", you have to wonder why she thinks it might. I was really wrong to take off on noromance's advice about VTF. The most common case in audio is the difference in SQ between copper and silver wire. Yet, they really do sound a bit different, because there is just no way to control for one's bias in that case. If you look at the audio signal that has passed through copper vs silver on a 'scope and analyzed for bandwidth and distortion, I doubt you would see a particle of difference. (Haven't done it, so don't know.) The retort for that observation is there is more to it than just bandwidth and the kinds of distortion we can easily measure. This allows us to go on thinking there is a difference between silver and copper wire. (And I admit to being one of those.)
