"Fella" wrote in message

Arny Krueger wrote:

"Fella" wrote in message


Here goes, this is what I heard: With the shakti there is more body,
definition, intensity, sincerity, clarity, more of everything that's
good _*across the board*_ !!!

Yawn. Yet another example of placebo effects.

Ok, since you were not personally insulting, or offensive, in a way, I
will answer this one. Here is why, in my *opinion* the effects could
not have been placebo: I could not have even *imagined* the changes
that actually happened to the sound.

Yawn again. Anybody who thinks that they could not imagine something
obviously has a rather high estimate of their infallibity and a low estimate
of their creativity.

One puts the changes onto words,
or rather translates them, but they have to be experienced to find
out what they really are.

The idea that there has to be a certain well-defined stimulus in order for
there to be a given perception presumes that there are no such things as
illusions and perceptual errors. There are therefore no mirages. There is no
such thing as pilot's vertigo. A young man named Kennedy didn't fly his
plane into the ocean because he misperceived where he could fly his plane.

With placebo you take a sugar pill thinking it is aspirin and your
headache goes away, for example. You are anticipating that effect, so
it happens. But with this thing you wouldn't *dare* to anticipate
such a difference! It is that significant.

That would be a very narrow view of placebo effects. A well-known example of
the more general kind of placebo effect is familiar to just about everybody
with any serious experience with audio production. Let me breifly explain a
typical mixing console. A typical mixng console has upwards of 200 knobs
and controls. Some percentage of them which can affect sound quality at any
particular time. Just about everybody who has used a mixing console has made
some change that they thought made a change or improvement, only to later
find out that the knob they turned was right next to the knob that would
have the effect they desired. The knob they did turn turned did nothing to
the sound at all. But, they perceived the change, anyhow.

While I was opening the package I was thinking to myself that, damn, I
must be nuts.

Hold that thought!

While I was trying to explaining the stuff to my
grinning wife I was anticipating embarrasment in front of her, as
nothing would happen. I had no idea, nor could I dare to anticipate
what was to come.

I don't know where people get the idea that there are fixed and predictable
cause-and-effect relationships with illusions.