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What are we objectivists missing?

I have been following (with much amusement) various threads about cables and tweaks where some claim "game changing improvements" and other claim "no difference".  My take is that if you can hear a difference, there must be some difference.  If a device or cable or whatever measures exactly the same it should sound exactly the same.  So what are your opinions on what those differences might be and what are we NOT measuring that would define those differences?

jtucker
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There is an art to listening.

 

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thyname
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They cannot - just as measuring a heart beat and bicep circumference will not indicate what a gymnast is capable on the floor!! They will not even indicate whether the subject is a gymnast or just a non-gymnast in good shape who can;t even do a flip....

Perfect analogy, and spot on! It "reminds" of the "doctor" who was diagnosing a patient with heart disease by measuring his sperm count.

 

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jjss49
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haha

just like being able to read and being able to comprehend... not the same... 

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mahgister
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Phonetic is not reducible to phonology for the same reason....

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mahgister
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«As Iain McGilchrist says, the left hemisphere is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. Which is why we cannot let that vocal part of ourselves, that sees only in part, betray the silent part that sees the whole.»- Winston Smith

Sound is a part, speech and music are whole not reducible to only measures of parts externally related to one another ... 

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