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One need not listen to every component that happens to be hot
this week to know what the results of replacing one sonically
transparent component with another are.

Well, another voice heard from that doesn't think having to listen to a
component is critical to passing judgement on it. *This is when faith in
science transcends science to become "scientism", I'm afraid.

To paraphrase physicist Fritjof Capra in his 1982 book "The Turning
Point," such people use science as a drunkard uses a lamp post: for
support rather than illumination. :-)


I think if one were to ask the dear man he would reply he had in mind such
as astrology and esp claimants. He if his attention were to be drawn to
subjective reports of perception differences in wooden objects and stick
on foil dots and digital clocks and "fast bass" and wire etc. etc. which
marketing and hifi mag. reviews are also larded with science terms, would
also include such on his list.

Sadly he would be prevented from doing so for the usual colorful language
more often found to characterize the sound of amps and cd players etc.
etc. that also lard marketing and hifi reviews. I recall one of my
favorites from a Brit mag. where an electronic item was said to produce a
more "chocolate sound". This behavior is a kind of perverse flip side of
"scientism" one thinks but none the less useless for a reader of a bit of
hifi gear review.