4!!!
I will say no more…otherwise the GMC will be looking at me for unprofessional behaviours!
J
Exactly.
To follow on from that:
Einstein to Heisenberg: “God does not play dice with the universe.”
Heisenberg’s reply “God not only plays dice with the universe, sometimes he throws the dice where the can’t be seen.”
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Actually the pair of Limericks are from a much older source: Bishop Barclay’s presentation of God as a universal observer.
Not sure where you have been the last 20yrs but the World has moved on from your Technical arguments. If you want to Catch up This is the place!
As for the rest i dont really know, Naim amps reacting to Capacitance in Spk cables
is 46yrs OLD at my last count - It is what it is.
Cable burn it yeah it’s a phenomon don’t know why…but I have had it on various cables…so if I demo a cable I always make sure its a dealer used cord with plenty of hours on…
There are huge arguments over this topic…don’t get hung up on it…
By the way agree with Simon…the cable is part of the system…period. As is the substation…and Drax!
The universe is a pretty big place …
Interesting viewpoint… perhaps I should have said part of the closed system.
Certainly some days my system sounds better than others - but nothing has changed, except my mood, expectation etc. If cable burn-in happened, then I would expect all sorts of scientific experiments to have problems due to changes in electrical cables. I never experienced this when I was a scientist.
You can certainly buy boutique cables!
You may feel that - but it is very likely that it does. The brain and ear are not remotely close to being precision instruments.
I am going to release something
FROM THE CUPBOARD
Seeing we have this Whizz Bang Audience.
Be aware The Cupboard is a Scary place for your SANITY and there is no Guarantee
an antidote will be given.
You go into a shop to buy some ordinary copper hook up wire you take some from each reel
all identical apart from colour. Do the wires sound different because the colours
are different? I am saying that they do!
and by coincidence the (Angry) RED has a harsher upper mid and treble.
The (more passive) Pale Yellow has a pleasing mid and treble but a soft imprecise bass,
you follow the drift here?
HA! HA! HA! The Mad Man can feel your fright. The Cupboard is a Scary place.
DARE YOU GO THERE!
A
There coming to take me away ha ha…there coming to take me away!!!
This is logical but if the audible effect was unmeasureable as many are
the Scientific experiment should not be effected.
That’s pretty much the definition of confirmation bias
I am saying they are different
I compared them and indeed they are different
Therefore they are different
Doesn’t matter what anyone else’s experience is
So the brain is a magic device that can detect and measure things beyond the scope and sensitivity of any scientific device?
Or is the brain, consisting of wet protoplasm subject to all sorts of influences - temperature, concentration of various salts and other substances in the rather variable bodily fluids - or the presence of an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato - an inaccurate measure of reality?
Whence come dreams? Are they real events, or simply the random results of undirected electrical activity in the brain? We know that memories are plastic, and interpretations of the world around us are subject to error. Indeed, the whole of HiFi is built upon the fact that the brain can be fooled into experiencing things that are not there - are illusions. There isn’t really a band or an orchestra in your room. It is your brain being fooled into experiencing something that does not really exist.
Life is a dream??? hmm until you die … and you find out it wasn’t…doh.
What is the best food to eat before an extended listening session, to optimise the brain?
This reminds me of a story…… A few years back I read an article that convinced me there was no difference between cables so I went to the hardware store and bought the closest thing to NAC A5 as possible. Normal electrical cable 4mm. Sounded fantastic at first. Sharp, detailed, deep and a wide soundstage. I thought I’d struck gold. 3 weeks later… muddy, dark, overblown bass. Weird! I didn’t see it coming. Burn in is not always good. Especially for cables not intended for hifi. I heard what I heard. Did that cable change in a measurable manner? Who knows. Did it change in an audible manner? Absolutely! No doubt.
Let me ask you this…… if I told you that you could take whatever you wanted from a very top end hifi store but the catch is that you had to chose based on either measurements or just your ears, which would you choose?
Either would work. But I would realise that using only my ears would result in a system that may not be as good as it could be. I think it I had to choose one or the other, I would go by measurement. Speakers with a good, flat response across the spectrum, going from, say, 20Hz to 22kHz, amp and preamp doing similar, then that would be the ones I would go for. I’d be very surprised if that would not sound good.
Why? Do you think that a system with a lumpy frequency curve would be better? I grant that you may prefer it, but it would be further away from the original recorded sound than a flat response. Unless you were very lucky and your room resonances exactly cancelled out the lumpiness of the system.
Burn in, for cables at least, is almost certainly the brain learning to get used to that cable. Put it this way - which do you think stays more nearly the same over time - brain or cable?
Basically all amps have such a curve, with at most very small deviations, but sound differently or may even sound poorly