Posts by Cocophone

Why are there so many 39" LCD TVs for sale? Is it cheaper to import 39" TVs instead of 40" TVs? Maybe at tariff on 40" but not 39"?

People in general are prone to suggestion. For example, jimmy kimmel recently had a video clip where his staff filmed people on the street. They were handle an iPhone 4S but told it was the new iPhone 5 (this was done before the iPhone...

I would hope in the 21st century the Scientific Method would be accepted without question. But alas, it is not. A short visual explanation or A longer explanation from wikipedia Quote:The scientific method (or simply scientific...

You need to read more carefully: Quote:CABLE BREAK-IN Our cables require a total of 400 to 500 hours to completely break in. If you ordered our 2 day cable break-in service, your cables will arrive with the equivalent of 96 hours on...

From the link provided earlier: Top 20 Logical Fallacies http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx I think rock_bottom is referring to this fallacy. Quote:Argument from authority The basic structure of such...

I turn 50 next month. I need to brush up on my skills learned many many years ago studying Heidegger, Camus, Descartes, and Sartre, etc.

Quote:Originally Posted by amirm I didn't link you to any old thread on the topic or to any ordinary poster. JN is an experienced engineer working on high power supplies for superconductors and such. In his business, the wrong...

One issue that is bothering me with these threads (re: interconnects, power cords, etc) is even with giving the benefit of doubt to some of the positions exposed, these positions are at best simply a hypothesis held by the individual. ...

I'm not interested in high jacking this thread, but I read his posts and I don't see any proof that a power cord could make a difference that could be scientifically replicated. For example, a double blind test. With that I will stop...

Quote:Originally Posted by arnyk Seems to me like a repetition of the audiophile myth that blind tests involve different kind(s) of listening than sighted evaluations. In this case I read the above as saying that by listening by...