the oxygen masks will drop automatically in case of a depressurization of the cabin, the emergency exits are; 2 on the front, 2 on the wings and 2 in the back. if you look at the top of the page, you'll notice the topic is about cables.
@Elecroestatico if I may use a made up story(any similarity to somebody in this topic would be totally not surprising ^_^):
so there are those problems to solve for a job interview. some clearly have a hard time doing so and give up saying most are impossible to solve. I come and declare "lol! I solved them, it's really obvious. but it's ok, we're not all born with the same brain and knowledge. so if it's impossible for some, then that's just how it is. perfectly natural and expected". so far I seem pretty legit and reasonable. somewhat cocky but hey if I did solve the all stuff maybe I deserve to brag a little.
but then, at the end when the employee comes to get the work done, my copy is empty and I tell him that it's all in my head, all solved accurately. he can trust me 130%, I'm the guy for the job. what do you expect that dude to think of me?
later in the hallway, when asked how I solved the problems by fellow examinees, I answer that I went with my guts like I did for decades because I believe it's just as reliable, if not, more reliable than following the accepted method. again, what do you expect those guys to think of me?
if you don't want to properly demonstrate the claims you make. there is a very effective ancestral technique involving not making claims with absolute confidence in the first place. it works wonders.
in here where we play pretend to care about facts more than the size of our own penis. we really don't enjoy reading empty claims. so we ask people to "put up or shut up", hoping that it was just a misunderstanding where the guy making the claim will correct his sentence into an opinion or an impression. or that he will stick to his claim and back it up with reasonable evidence that can be shared with us.
now if you wish to troll all the guys who claim there are no differences between DACs in general or cables in general, I'm with you. because of course nobody can prove that, so nobody should claim it. simple enough. logic doesn't apply only to people we disagree with.
a
listening test proving
audible differences between gears, has to be an actual test(captain obvious), not something where we know at all time what's going on, where an impression magically morphs into a fact. also it has to be an experience testing hearing and hearing alone. again, duh! but somehow most audiophiles fail to qualify for those so very obvious requirements of a listening test.
if I see 2 different products, obviously I feel a difference, I know there are some, I see some. it would be weird not to get the impression that they are indeed different. but that's not a listening test.
and deciding to willingly focus on sound does not effectively isolate sound from everything going on in our head. if you're not convinced, there are so many experiments demonstrating as much, most can be done to trick friends and family while making my point.
a favorite of this section is the McGurk effect because it's so self explanatory:
it should be pretty obvious that a blind testing, given how annoying it is to set up and run properly, wouldn't be systematically used by scientists when testing impressions if there was an easy effective alternative. like telling the subjects "ok now you only concentrate only the stuff we test, and just tell me if you pass the test, I'll take your word for it because
you know what you heard". "oh and BTW, if you somehow were to believe you pass, you could consider yourself special and belonging to the elite. it would also reassure you about all the money you spent. just think about that, no risk to be biased into making stuff up just to get the result you really want to get so very much. and certainly we have no reason to set up a test that would identify when people happen to think they perceive differences but really don't. we can fully trust them to know better than being biased like newbies".
in any domain, this is a lame sarcastic joke. in audio forums, the majority argues very seriously that it's exactly how a listening test must be done. ignorance and group thinking can really achieve impressive results.
so to summarize:
- a test should involve actual testing, not be me asking to myself how much I agree with what I think I feel.
- if we have X independent variables in a test about audio, and most aren't audio variables, we're not testing audio! in fact we're probably not getting any meaningful data.
- if you can't set up a proper listening test by yourself, that's perfectly understandable. and if you can but don't want to, again, we all very much understand. that shiit is hard and boring at the same time. no shame, no judgement, I often don't properly test stuff myself ^_^. but then, let's agree that we're not qualified to pass judgements on the results of those tests we didn't do. pretty simple request IMO.
no it's not a long post!
