Amir and Blind Testing

Yes, your $1,000 USB cable is very cool, but admit that there isn’t any scientific evidence that it sounds audibly better than Amazon’s $5 cable.

I provided a link to one scientific study that showed how people her differently. And this study (my guess) assumes that the ears they tested are created exactly the same. But we know that every human has a different finger print. So that is not even in this study. You get my point, I hope.

I am not saying that you have to purchase a $$$$$ cable to hear a difference between that one and a $ cable. All you need to do is listen. You can purchase 2 cables in the same price range - and if one is constructed pretty good, while the other is a bad one, there are chances that you will be able to hear a difference. Of course, if you cannot hear the differences between various components like amps, DACs, etc then it will not make sense to you. You are better served with measurements and not listening. My idea of this hobby is to "listen and find out" and not "measure and find out". In my books it's an insult to your senses when you have to rely on someone's measurement to tell you what "might" sound good rather than trusting your own senses.

I provided a link to one scientific study that showed how people her differently. And this study (my guess) assumes that the ears they tested are created exactly the same. But we know that every human has a different finger print. So that is not even in this study. You get my point, I hope.

Great point for sure! Thanks...

We must LEARN to listen...

We must learn it if possible in a treated and controlled room...

The premice that all ears are equal and overpowered by tools is ridiculously false...

The ceiling of a room is less a limit than something who qualitatively shape my enclosure, the 20,000 hertz limit for example is also less a limit of my hearing than something AMONG OTHER ACOUSTIC FACTORS which define my qualitative soundscape...We cannot reduce sound qualtative information to ONLY measure in Hertz...

Anybody can detect if a resonant sphere is dense or empty inside by his sound WITHOUT any need to measure it or see it... Timbre perception is not reducible to ONE spectrum only... A blind can cycle among traffic without crashing in a car... Etc...

Like Reality itself, sound/music cannot be completely explained at the end, but it can be ,if not even fully describeable, at least be experienced...

«We cannot explain exhaustively a lion but we can feel it better inside his mouth »-Groucho Marx in Africa 🤓

«Lion morphology speak»-Wolfgang Schad 

«Room psycho-acoustical geography speak the same tongue as you»- Anonymus acoustician

«Is it not an echo instead of another voice?»-Groucho Marx 🤓

The goal in audio is the creation/translation of this music/sound from one acoustical context, which is the RELATIVE perspective of the recording process on a lived event, to be translated in the psycho-acoustic geography of your room which is also a relative acoustic and esthetic perspective from and on the recording event ....

Japanese people invent a word for this, it is a central concept of their esthetic: YUGEN...

We can make a garden with stones and sand like japan master did with chosen proportion and measures ( exact one) which will CORRELATE with the original perception of the garden creator for exemple but will never be reducible to a set of measures and words by definition...

Focusing on gear or on tool, is fetichism at worst , at best a necessary preliminary to the central and essential esthetic and scientific acoustic/psycho-acoustic experience...

Music/sound relation  is yugen.....