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| Buriedcode:
It's because perception and our senses are pretty much entirely subjective and perception from one sense is influenced by the others. Your sight, hearing, smell and taste can change depending on the conditions, sometimes quite quickly. I don't mean synesthesia. Coupled with the fact one can never experience exactly what someone else experiences, meaning we can only describe something with words (which are themselves somewhat subjective) means one can describe a sound or feeling in a way that cannot be tested, validated, or confirmed. They may very well be genuinely trying to describe what they "hear", but it is difficult without referring to other sounds, just like trying to describe the colour blue to someone who was born blind. For many it seems audio gear provides an "experience" which includes the knowledge they have spent alot of money on something they desire, so it must sound "better" (in whatever way they wish to describe that improviement). I'm sure to them, it really does sound "better" but that is both relative and subjective. What we percepieve is based on preconcieved ideas. Ultimately the terms you described have no value other than for salesmen. I'm am not suggesting its all "lies", just that with no objective measure, or specific properties to measure objectively, its somewhat meaningless. Some properties are of course quantifiable - noise floor, bandwidth, THD etc.. Couple all this with an industry that - like most businesses - exists to make money, and there is a market for extremely expensive audio gear for those who have lots of money to spend, and want to spend a lot of audio gear. To justify that cost, manufacturers must use materials and technologies that aren't used on consumer gear - it doesn't actually matter if those materials/methods/techology are in any way beneficial to the quality of sound - but if you charge $50,000 for a 30W amplifier, why would it cost that much unless you're doing something "better". After all, people generally believe that, the more something costs, the "better" it must be. Re: Placebo. Placebo effects (because its more than just one) are most strongly associated with subjective measures (fatigue, pain, anxiety sight, hearing etc..), and tends to be very weak for objective measures (actual medical outcomes, serum levels etc..). Given hearing is very subjective it's prone to strong placebo effects/biases. |
| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---and buy the big adjustable equalizers, --- End quote --- But that's another stage to introduce distortion and phase differences that's going to affect how good there "music " sounds.And on that point do they actually play proper music, like the stuff with rocks in? At best you might get a bit of steely dan but generally it always seems to be some sort of insipid jazz or venezuelan throat warbling |
| M4trix:
--- Quote from: MrMobodies on March 04, 2023, 10:07:44 pm --- --- Quote from: M4trix on March 04, 2023, 07:52:43 pm --- --- Quote ---twisted pairs, cryogenic frozen and aligned on atomic level cables --- End quote --- :palm: --- End quote --- I wonder the manufacturing processes for that. --- End quote --- Dave explained it here. :-DD |
| MrMobodies:
--- Quote ---[2:48] they always have to come out with bigger and better ridiculous as sounding explanations for how their cables are better you know it's how they're better than their previous model you know of this new one --- End quote --- I see, I think I understand now, it is not the cable that is manufactured but the audiofool. Where the process of manufacturing is who believes the claims and buys into it. I don't think I thought of it like that before. |
| coppice:
Strange terms for things we hear aren't just for audiophools. When I worked on the development of speech and general audio codecs it could be very hard to put into words what many of the compression artefacts sound like. You end up with some strange jargon for things among colleagues. |
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