scuttle
500+ Head-Fier
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If I throw a brick at your head, the impact will be the same whether I tell you it is a feather or a kryptonite ingot.
My friend had no reason to associate our friendship with "Wow - the HD25s sound good." The context wasn't "What do think of these?" but "What do you think of this album I've found?" And the HD25s certainly don't look like expensive audio hw and so wouldn't cue him to high expectations that way - I think most people would guess them at the price of PortaPros. So, again, real differences in sq do jump out in blind testing, making the fact that others do not survive blind test significant.
Bottom line: your claim that people will only hear extra sq from high end hw if they can see the cabinets, know the brands, and are not being tested, is junk.
When we encounter something it always exists inside of a context, a relationship between objects, ideas, history, culture, and biology.
If I throw a brick at your head, the impact will be the same whether I tell you it is a feather or a kryptonite ingot.
Your friend while listening to your headphones did so inside of a particular context; Your friendship, the interaction, the feel of the materials,
the location, and a pile of worldly influences all helped to form a particular experience for your friend. His ignorance of the brand didn't remove
him from being inside a context.
My friend had no reason to associate our friendship with "Wow - the HD25s sound good." The context wasn't "What do think of these?" but "What do you think of this album I've found?" And the HD25s certainly don't look like expensive audio hw and so wouldn't cue him to high expectations that way - I think most people would guess them at the price of PortaPros. So, again, real differences in sq do jump out in blind testing, making the fact that others do not survive blind test significant.
Bottom line: your claim that people will only hear extra sq from high end hw if they can see the cabinets, know the brands, and are not being tested, is junk.