dalethorn
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Dubious parties such as Dolby labs , NHK Japan, BAS, AES, Harman and various Universities, dubious research often using self-confessed audiophiles, engineers, tonnmeister students, audio salesdroids, audio reviewers and other audio professionals, dubious research that has often gone through a rigorous anonymous peer review process. Dubious research such as 100+ years of psychophysics research ?
The laws of physics and the ability of humans to discriminate between stimulae are indifferent to the cost of audio items.
If you read the reviews in Stereophile you will find multiple examples where their golden eared reviewers are incapable of detecting grotesque flaws in expensive audio kit, flaws that are trivially exposed by their bank of routine tests. You put trust in that lot , seriously ?
Reviewers like Harley and Fremer ?
Harley whose only audio credentials were that he won an essay writing contest and whose articles contained so many material inacccuracies that he was routinely corrected by The Audo Critic, whose ramblings about jitter were so inaccurate that Aczel commissioned an article by Bob Adams (Analog Devices) specifically to undo all the damage he had done ?
Fremer a reviewer whose inability to detect a broken cable and who gave glowing reviews to a CD/DAC combo with 25% distortion below 50hz and which never achieved a flat FR at any frequency ?
This lot you trust ?
I trust me, and my 200-plus IQ, to sort out who's lying and who's not. I see you deliberately avoided mentioning J. Gordon Holt. Hmmmmm. For the record, I don't hear differences in amps as a rule, sometimes in loudspeaker cables, very definitely in headphones. But even though Holt is dead, I trust his senior pals like Atkinson. If you want to pick out Harley or Fremer, that tells me a lot about your perspective. It's not a perfect world. You have to learn to read between the lines. Especially here.