The Absolute Sound vs Pleasing Sound

Stop making excuses. Everyone has biases and yes concerning audio.

It not occured to you that EVERYBODY is ok with that part...Bias are unevitable and universal...

The wrong attitude is using blind test to prove an agenda about "reality"....

In some aspect under study of the acoustical experience, eliminating bias is mandatory for the isolation of all parameters at play for example...

In other aspect the bias are the reality itself which must be studied not eliminated...

You always use blind test in a one way direction which is reflecting itself a bias: reality is purely physical and material and reducible to dials controls...

Is it not simple even for most to understand?

Your tactic is accusing others to do what you did on a daily basis, stick to your blind spot bias....Your vision of reality is so tunneling you are in a dead end without even knowing it...

Arguing with you is impossible...

If i was wiser that i think i am i would be mute save for asking to you precise information about digital processing in audio.... Your knowledge is not refutable by me there nor in electronic engineering because i know nothing almost in these fields.... But i can think a bit by myself.... In philosophy and acoustic you are flawed....Not because of your vast knowledge but because knowledge dont equal understanding and could impede it in some way at some point....

Audiophiles are like any group not all constituted by idiots sorry...

 If i can recreate a high level of S.Q. with a 500 bucks system in my room with pipes and straws i am perhaps not a complete idiot...

Bias is a personal reality. It is not transferable

Your ignorance is deafening sorry....

Culture is precisely the ingraining and transfer and "culture" of biases and elimination of differently "chosen" biases in different societies and also even in science....There exist a hierarchy of different biases and of the corresponding experiences... Ernst Cassirer called that symbolic forms...Bias are not "individual" characteristics because individuality can be distinguish from the collective but could not be separated....Bias are not a simple thing we must always eliminate, but something we must be conscious of , even if it is almost impossible or difficult like for the blind spot in vision...

Educate yourself....Learn what is culture, which science is itself only a ramification....Unseparable from the tree of culture, the science is only  a living branch; but not a separable branch like   think some  "scientism" who want to sit on a dead branch standing unattached to any biases tree trunk in the sky....

I was advising student about reading in my daily job than i recommend to you Ernst Cassirer...

You either eliminate bias or you do not

Philosophy of science is not childish game ... Are you serious? 😁

For sure you are....


Everybody favor blindtest even me.... But the reality of some effect is not always decidable automatically after a blind test.... Life is not so easy....

It is morning now.... I wish you the best day possible....

I will mute my speaking "ignorance"....Or my speaking consciousness.... Or my speaking biases ....

OP here. Putting an audio system together that is satisfying is the main point of my thread. People buy gear, but it in their system and listen to the results. When things come together (synergy) and work for that system we are moving in the right direction. Long term evaluation is how that is accomplished. You cannot fool yourself for very long if the system is not to your liking. Short term evaluation or short term testing is very unreliable. Over time and with much listening to different music an opinion can be formed. In most cases it's not a question if A is better than B but the question is do I prefer A over B. Audio is not about scientific testing of one's hearing or memory, it's about enjoying the music.