[Norman M. Schwartz]

wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:58 am, "Harry Lavo" wrote:
"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...
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. :-)


Then just as well; without llumination, how is that drunkard going to find
the lamp post?

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile