>>If you got the impression that the untrained ears phrase was demeaning
for my friend that was not my intent<<
No, I did not get the feeling you were trying to demean your friend.
One of my problems with so many of the testimonials I see and the
arguments that follow is that it turns into something like a game of button,
button, whose got the button?
What I mean by that is -- you generally read these testimonials where a new
Cable or Vibrapod, or Halograph, or Shakti Stone is inserted into a system
and makes this HUGE difference. So big that ANYONE would be able to hear it
-- even with cheese cloth over their ears. And even my next door neighboor,
who is half deaf and didn't even know I'd changed anything walked in, his
knees buckled and he shouted out, "MY GOD, YOUR SYSTEM SOUNDS
SO MUCH BETTER, I CAN HARDLY WALK!!!"
But, then when you ask why no one can seem to pass a double-blind listening
test and reliably tell any difference -- the story always changes. Suddenly,
the story becomes all about how these changes are incredibly subtle and only
people who've been trained in Tibetan Caves by Zen Masters can hear the
difference and only with the right system and only when they are in the right
mood and only when their moon is in Sagitarius --- and that's why the
subjects cannot pass these tests.
That's all.