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Re: A response, and a very serious question in return.

David,

> the surface of the knob is a minor room surface <

Yeah, really REALLY minor! And it's not even in the path of the sound waves.

> The first is the one that always gets trotted out - people believe there's a difference because they want there to be one. <

Actually, that's farther down my list. I think in many cases it's simply because human perception is so frail, and auditory memory is so short. I already mentioned being in a different state of mind after crawling around on the floor to change speaker wires. And if I didn't mention this before I will now: When you get up to change a cable and sit down again, unless you sit in the exact same place - within half an inch - the frequency response can be different because of comb filtering at the listening position.

> Why is it that as a group we seem more willing to give the benefit of the doubt to people who fail to hear a difference <

That's not my experience at all. I hear tweakers all the time accuse others of having a tin ear, or not being experienced enough to hear some of the small (but of course real) improvements they can hear.

--Ethan

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