In rec.audio.opinion Gareth Magennis wrote:

"Denis Sbragion" wrote in message
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Hello Gareth,

"Gareth Magennis" wrote in
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I disagree, I think this is a leading edge stuff. We are talking
about how people react with science, and I think it is little
understood. We are talking about people experiencing differences
between different cables but there being no scientific explanation or
experimental proof of this happening. And I believe that as we

mhhh, better to say that there's an explanation that audiophiles don't
like. To me instead that explanation fits perfectly the reality and the
available evidence.


But just the opposite holds true as well -.just as the explanation fits
perfectly the reality to you, so the explanation so does not fit the reality
and experience of the Audiophile.

The Audiophile has faith that subjective experience is an accurate
model of reality.

Common evidence to the contrary -- sensory confusions like mirages and
illusions; cognitive confusions like errors of reason -- seem
not to shake his faith one tiny bit.

Is this rational?

All 'realities' do not hold up equally well to examination and test.
Not *everything* one can believe, is true.


Yes, we are talking about Scientists and Audiophiles telling each other they
are wrong simply because of a difference of opinion. It is not helpful to
confuse opinion with fact, which is why the only option is, in fact, to
agree to disagree.


Ever hear of a phantom switch experience?

In it, the listener is led to believe there are two devices
or settings, A and B. He describes sonic difference between them.
But in fact, A and B are the very same device or setting.

You would claim that no, really, they *were* different, because
the listener *heard* them as different.

Is that rational, or is that...well, *crazy*?

Not everything is just a 'difference of opinion'. Planes
don't fly , computers don't crunch data, audio gear doesn;t
emit sound, simply because the 'opinions' of the designers
turned out to be *lucky guesses*.


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-S