Nousaine wrote:
Bromo wrote:
On 6/20/04 11:09 PM, in article , "Nousaine"
wrote:
It's all hand waving with out any specifics. That would be the case here on
both sides.
Let me ask again. If I'm not mistaken you have said that anything that can be
heard can be measured or perhaps that was more like 'if you can't measure a
difference than there would be nothing to hear' or something similar. I then
asked exactly what measureable differences would explain amp/cable sound
and I don't recall a response.
Again what should we be measuring to confirm 'amp/wire' sound that we haven't
already done?
It might be that no one knows. If you notice something - even if 10 people
were to denounce you - it does not mean you know the mechanism, nor are you
the expert on what measurements to make.
So how do they "design" products then .... by making random choices? Are some
people just lucky? If you would say they "listen" to them for validation then
I wonder why haven't any of them made listening test validation public?
I often thought that they came up with the hyberbole first, and the
product to fit it second. I remember "Enid Lummey" of TAS fame way back
when. "She" said that having a telephone in the same room with your
system was bad. Something about the diaphram resonating in the phone
causing some sort of acoustic problem. Gee, I thought, and what about
the rest of the stuff in the room resonating? Light bulbs tend to have a
'bright' sound when they are on. A 'darker' sound when off.
There seems to a be a lot of pseudo science in high end audio.
I remember trying the VPI "magic" bricks about 20 years ago. They were
'suppose' to 'absorb' stray magnetic fields from power supplies along
with 'dampening' a components chassis. The 'absorb' thing went right by
me. The dampening, well, if that were a problem, a real brick is a lot
cheaper. Neither of those 'problems' seemed to effect my system. And
this 'magic brick' was from a company that makes an outstanding
turntable (I own a VPI HW19). Those magic bricks sure looked nice and
were heavy. But work? I can't see how.