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Re: The sad fact about audio is how often audiophiles imagine hearing differences

Richard:


You wrote:

It's unfortunate we audiophiles are so brainwashed into believing that all electronics and wires sound different (as speakers do), and real audiophiles can hear those differences, that there's only ONE way to be confident an audiophile really knows what he is talking about....DBT....

I don't understand why you feel this way.Besides when other people do what they want why does it bother you? People can say what they want and that's there words. I always like to make comparisons in real time ie switch from A to B instantaniously with no time gap. That's really hard to do. However the more trained my ear becomes the better my memory works and the better I can compare without an instant switch. Even my wife can hear it. I will simply ask her what is different about this vs the other. Without saying do you hear this or that she will say such and such is different. She doesn't know all the 100's of words and phrases audiophiles use to describe sound. She uses basic terms like sharp,flat,more,less. I got a cable which extended the low end in my main system. The measured -3db point went from 28 to 17 w/a sine wave generator. When I played the system for her with a piece of music she knows she said the bass is different and stronger and I can feel it more in the floor. Please come over to my house and listen to the difference in sound between a Shunyata Taipan and a Richard Gray power cord connected to my CDP. If you can't hear the difference you have no business telling people what they should or should not think. You would be just as guilty as those you are thrashing. Are you up to the challenge? my wife heard the two cables and again without telling my her what my trained ear heard, she pretty much heard the same thing. Have you had a hearing test lately? What's your audiogram look like?

ET

My ears are better than your ears


And yes I am poking fun at you - you deserve it


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