A little story comes to mind:
When CD's first came out, there were those nuthead believers, who maintained that interconnects between the CD players and the other gear sounded different and worse, that they even had directivity. Of course they were ridiculed by "Science" and probably told to klick their heels (-; ( by the way,works only with gear from Deutschland) because bits were just bits after all. Until it was found out, that even minute faults in the solder joints would cause jitter and suddenly those first ridiculed, became rehabilitated. The history of science is full of similar stories. It is not just a question between knowing and believing, there is something inbetween, namely "experiencing", gathering empirical evidence, which would lead to new hypotheses ( and those at first are generally "beliefs" ) which then in time could be turned into knowledge, widening the scope of science.
I think we should not bicker with each other, but rather listen to and learn from another. The believers should learn to be sceptical and careful, the scientists to be curious and openminded. Obviously looking at many posts here in Audiogon, this is a difficult thing to achieve. Everybody rides his own high horse, he should rather get down of.
Well, I'll get off my donkey now too and shall try to repeat J.D.'s experiment and invite six 24 year old women over and then we'll see (hear) about them cones, hopefully , I'll not be too distracted. JD, did you listen with the lights on or off? This seems an important parameter as well. I've got goospimples all over in nervous anticipation and I must be off now and get on the phone, to get things rolling. Sorry Jademo, can't klick my heels, because my gear is either Brits or US colonial. Should I sing "Rule Britannia" perhaps?
When CD's first came out, there were those nuthead believers, who maintained that interconnects between the CD players and the other gear sounded different and worse, that they even had directivity. Of course they were ridiculed by "Science" and probably told to klick their heels (-; ( by the way,works only with gear from Deutschland) because bits were just bits after all. Until it was found out, that even minute faults in the solder joints would cause jitter and suddenly those first ridiculed, became rehabilitated. The history of science is full of similar stories. It is not just a question between knowing and believing, there is something inbetween, namely "experiencing", gathering empirical evidence, which would lead to new hypotheses ( and those at first are generally "beliefs" ) which then in time could be turned into knowledge, widening the scope of science.
I think we should not bicker with each other, but rather listen to and learn from another. The believers should learn to be sceptical and careful, the scientists to be curious and openminded. Obviously looking at many posts here in Audiogon, this is a difficult thing to achieve. Everybody rides his own high horse, he should rather get down of.
Well, I'll get off my donkey now too and shall try to repeat J.D.'s experiment and invite six 24 year old women over and then we'll see (hear) about them cones, hopefully , I'll not be too distracted. JD, did you listen with the lights on or off? This seems an important parameter as well. I've got goospimples all over in nervous anticipation and I must be off now and get on the phone, to get things rolling. Sorry Jademo, can't klick my heels, because my gear is either Brits or US colonial. Should I sing "Rule Britannia" perhaps?