Conclusion = “What I hear is real, science doesn’t understand me, I better try and convince people that believe the science they are wrong.”
i guess this is also why gregorio feels -personally- attacked each time
What I think I am hearing might not be real, it might be influenced by other stimuli, I wonder if I could learn a bit more about that, maybe what I thought I knew isn’t entirely accurate.
this is a completely different pair of shoes imo ... you dont think i know what changes i hear from day to day (after 6 years of nearly daily listening with a somewhat good Hifi) and can differentiate them when im actually listening to a comparison? sure it still does play a role but (for me) its nothing that major that i hear completely different
again, sounds great in theory but in practice i couldnt disagree more
Tho theory from me here... since i just thought about... i actually noticed that i get more consistent sound from day to day as im using a (good) power conditioner and ferrites on power cables, different EMI/RFI profiles from day to day on the power lines that probably everyone who knows how can measure
Also the day vs night difference nearly completely vanished with the power conditioner, which was definitely a real thing
im currently also at a point where i think most changes people hear in usb cables or whatever come actually from changing EMI/RFI ...
and that getting rid of the major part of EMI/RFI might help you start hearing differences
“I hear differences where science says I shouldn’t, however, I also understand that the human auditory system isn’t infallible, in fact I can very easily demonstrate that to myself with a simple auditory/visual illusion”
i also noticed how this auditory illusion sounds like, "like the real thing" , this is NOT what you get with some devices/dacs that sound like crap (un-natural), consistently...
there are so many things to consider, tho also this fact here:
if someone asks around here they get bombarded with "objective facts" (just like marketing to be honest, or maybe even worse because "science cant be wrong, they are FACTS!") then after not believing your "facts" you guys advice them todo DBT and if they are not part of the bell curve they are simply wrong and are "fools" for believing science is wrong..... The big question here is how you can get any more bias into one person?
Then the best part is, if someone advice to just take a listen.... ah the sighted bias... ohhh.....
People have to think for both factions and nobody seems to do, imo the case is clear, the truth lies somewhere between what objectivists and audiophiles say
HAVING SAID THIS (MY OWN OPINION).... i will definitely double check my ADC recordings in a DBT, just because im (still) curious, tho if it ends up invalidating what i heared before it probably still doesnt convince me but proofs my point of being right about DBT... since i "know" the chance that thousands of audiophiles live in their own world imaging things is fairly low imo
