Riboge
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I'm posting too much in this thread, so one last thought: It occurs to me that those that take the 'scientific' approach see themselves as doing something analogous to saying the emperor has no clothes on when they assert no audible differences to those who hear differences. Here's why that analogy fails. In the fable it's not that the people don't see a naked emperor all along, it's that they are too afraid to admit it and have grown accustomed to acting as if it weren't so. Here the people or many of them anyway hear differences all along, before and after supposedly the truth is asserted. It's more like telling people who persist in seeing a clothed emperor that the clothes really aren't there. This has led to some pretty forced and unlikely claims such as that thousands of people simultaneously and separately are imagining things, the same things. Or that multitudes are so consumed with pride having spent money on cables they can't/won't admit they are deluded. A claim of enduring mass hysteria is the foundation of what is claimed to be a hard-nosed, scientific and practical-minded approach to cables. Talk about improbable!
Face it. The challenge is to explain how it is that people really hear differences when so little shows up on our current means of measuring. Quit ducking it.
Face it. The challenge is to explain how it is that people really hear differences when so little shows up on our current means of measuring. Quit ducking it.