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In Reply to: RE: Sheesh! posted by unclestu on April 21, 2010 at 13:43:22

I'm not saying "if I don't hear it doesn't exist". I'm saying, "make me believe it does".
You are also putting words in my mouth. I never said the brain could not be trusted at all. I said the elements that are likely to influence it should be as limited as possible. In blind-testing fuses, the only thing that influences the brain is the fact that you are blind-testing it , i.e maybe making it work slightly differently. But at least other factors have all been ruled out. Which I why I will mostly rely on blind-tests in this hobby, for the most controversial items like fuses.
If you tell me that people were able to consistently determine the orientation of a fuse without knowing which way it was inserted, I have no reason to doubt you and the test you did, and I'll keep an open, if skeptical, mind about the matter. That's all I've been banging about.
JB

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"make me believe that it does" - unclestu 15:55:53 04/21/10 (0)
Now consider this tweak, as it may: totally free. Why would any sane person spend a lot of time and money to irrevocably "prove" that it exists. What is in it monetarily to justify spending a large amount of time, money, and investigative effort to prove something that you have absolutely nothing to gain from?

Consider that in other posts, I have pointed out that there are differences in fuses. Some details in construction are very obvious and so are the time ratings in the case of Slow blow fuses, so obviously there are differences in how the overload currents are handled. Taking the inverse of your attitude, prove to me that these differences can not alter the current being passed through them and thus affecting sound quality.

Stu

Stu
Seems to me - unclestu 15:45:19 04/21/10 (1)
you're just transposing your experience onto everyone else's. I believe the testing I had conducted was far more rigorous than most experimenters. The fact that I had four other listeners other than myself speaks volumes, particularly when I had already stated one could not hear differences till the very end and another who could hear differences, thought them negligible.

Stu
- RE: Seems to me - jbcortes 00:06:05 04/22/10 (0)
  "you're just transposing your experience onto everyone else's"
  
  Of course I am, Stu.
  
  But then so are you. I can produce as many friends who will swear there is no difference then you can show me people who said there were in your own test.
  
  In any case, as I said above, I consider your test and methodology satisfying, at least enough to make me keep an open mind on the matter.
  
  JB

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