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It seems even praising a hi-fi enthusiast here - as in Judge Judy--"no good deed goes unpunished"
I'm not punishing anyone. Saying that happy people are rare here is not exactly a "good deed".
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As I have said before I am not 100% convinced about "the sound of cables" but we are all different why try to mold people into one set ideal. What one person hears another cant --that's a physically proven fact . my wife's hearing is acute a lot better than mine.
And when it's physically proven that there is no difference but
some people still hear differences it has nothing to do with how good their hearing is.
It was proven in multiple studies that the placebo effect is real. "The placebo effect points to the importance of
perception and the
brain's role in physical health." If the placebo effect can improve your subjective condition, it can easily change what you hear.
Some studies suggest that there's still a chance of the placebo effect occurring even if the patients were told about it beforehand. In other words even if people are told that two cables perform identically (and physically really do perform identically), some might still hear differences.
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Why try to apply physiological limits to human beings just because they don't fit in with science. Is there a great fear that if science is proved wrong [and it has many times] that the "sky will fall down" that's bordering on a type of fascism. If somebody has a different view to me then that's life. I could put a viewpoint but never in a "I know better manner". Kids at school get picked on and called names if they are fat--WHY because they don't "conform" to societies "ideal"--society is wrong in that respect as that can harm a child for life and give them " complexes" something that nobody can do to me as I don't accept societies "ideals" and would fight to the death for that cause.
You really, really should read a
book about science, maybe start with the Wikipedia article. What societal ideals have to do with any of this, I have no freaking clue.
Anyway, when you see new members asking for advice because they're not happy with their new headphones and you see some people suggesting to get/upgrade to a dedicated amp, external DAC (because internal often doesn't fit the audiophile "ideal") and sometimes even cables, instead of just suggesting to return the headphones or try to spend a bit more time with it, you know what the "ideal" headphone audiophile is expected to own.