I did propose it as a "possible explanation" but if you rather use the age old "brain fooling you" explanation, then how can science progress forward.
Unfortunately, this statement is just so typical of what we have to deal with here. So many fallacies, falsehoods and hypocrisy in one sentence, even though you don't appear to be one of the fanatical, misguided audiophiles. It might be worth going through it a bit:
1. But it's not a "possible explanation"! If it flies in the face of science and has no supporting reliable evidence, then it's a "nonsense explanation".
2. Instead of using the age old "brain fooling you" explanation, you rather use the age old magnetism explanation. Magnetism was first investigated about 2,500 years ago, the relationship with electricity was discovered 2 centuries ago and magnetism has been used as an explanation for all kinds nonsense.
3. Firstly, much of science does not "progress forward" and we wouldn't want it to! "1 + 1 = 2" is probably about the oldest science we have and it has never progressed, 1 + 1 still equals 2 millennia later and if it suddenly did progress to equalling something other than 2, modern human society would probably collapse. This is an obvious example but there are countless others, many specific to electricity (and magnetism). We have laws of physics and axioms, they may expand or we may find new ways to apply them in technology but they do not progress. Science progresses in those areas where we know our theories are incomplete and sending an analogue electrical signal down a cable is NOT one of those areas! Secondly, your statement is false anyway because "the age old brain fooling you explanation" is itself a large area of CURRENT scientific investigation. In fact, there is a scientific area specific to the perception of sound (called psycho-acoustics) and research is still active in this field because we know our knowledge is still incomplete.
[1] I am only speaking of my experience because that is the closest experience I have for cables, it is definitely a subjective thing and I don't know how it is the wrong feeling? [2] Aren't sound subjective in the first place?
1. Another typical misguided audiophile statement! We often have feelings and experience things that are not logical, rational or accurate/correct, which is why we have schools with mandatory teaching of maths, history and science. If we didn't, we'd still be living in the dark ages and there wouldn't be any recording/reproduction technology in the first place! You have "the wrong feeling" because you are ignoring school level math, history and science.
2. Didn't you learn at school that sound is simply pressure waves moving through air, that we measure it with Decibels and that measurements are objective?
The above is why we can't convince some people, their personal (flawed) perception trumps even basic schooling and without even basic schooling, scientific facts have no meaning and carry no more weigh than any other biased opinion on the internet.
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