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"paul packer" wrote in message
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On 3 Nov 2005 21:42:40 -0800, wrote:

I read with interest your erudite and well- written message. I fear
that it will fall on deaf ears.
You're not in the sphere of rational argument.. You're dealing with
magical thinking. Like this: "I learnt at school that there is an
equation for auditory wave progression - so there must be a formula for
deciding which component will play my music best."
Hurrah I found it.. It is called ABX. It confirms that differences I
have never been able to hear do not exist. This makes me feel good. I
always knew those golden ears were just trying to put me down.
Now I can show them what science is. I'll go to my Public Library get a
string of references with "audio" or "listening" in the title and call
them "scholarly references to ABX" No mention of ABX in them? Who is
checking?"
Well I checked and found not a single published reference in any mag.
or journal where majority of an ABXing panel heard a difference
between ANY comparable components when music was played. This challenge
has been on the web for the last four years and still is. All we get is
ridiculous catalogues of irrelevancies like the one that opened this
thread.
Simple minds just will not face the simple truth. We're all different,
We all have different abilities and different training/experience and
we all have different expectations from music reproduction. If I heard
or did not hear something does not mean that someone else will hear or
not hear in unison with me..
Amplifiers are physical objects, Some of their properties can be
measured, So are violins. If a virtuoso tells me that he hears
differences between them I'll take his opinion. I wii not ask him to
compete with NYOB in a phony "test" that has never been properly
researched and validated to show that it does help to show differences
rather than obliterate them. To show that it WORKS..
Ludovic Mirabel

Bravo, Ludovic. A spot-on posting. Of course no-one in the ABX camp
will applaud it, or likely even read it through, but that's their
loss. Keep repeating common sense and who knows, maybe one day it will
be common.

Why would anyone applaud Ludo lies?