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Re: "How Does One *Prove* You Can Hear Different Cables"

> THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEARING AND THINKING TO HEAR

Utter nonsense. I have attached a well known example from psycoacoustics but you can find plenty of others should you make the effort to find out about the subject.

When you recognise that sound and the perception of sound are not the same thing then an experiment has to be designed accordingly. If you wish to study the audibility of a component change in the audio chain then you have to do something to remove (or quantify in order to separate out) the many biasing effects on sound perception.

If you want to include the many biasing effects on sound perception then that is a different experiment and a much more difficult one if you want to conform to the scientific method and produce recognisably valid results. I have not seen anyone attempt such an experiment for audiophiles and audio components but, then again, I have not looked for one in the literature. However, what would be measured would not be the normal audibility measure (what one usually wants) but the normal audibility measure + the effects on sound perception of seeing and knowing what component is being heard. There is quite a lot of information (but not evidence) in these pages to suggest that the latter is quite strong at least for some audiophiles.





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