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Wow...your right my brain WAS lying to me the whole time...I just sold all my equipment.. 13k worth and bought a Bose sound wave radio...holy crap!..it sounds just as good!...and I saved all that money that I'm gonna need for therapy now...by the way ..you got any of that 3-mile nuclear speaker wire left? I'm gonna need just a 4' peice after my brain realized what I just did!Originally Posted by codoug 
This discussion is further confirmation of the findings of psychoacoustics. And the power of confirmation bias (google it).
For one final time: Of course you (and I and most of "the rest of us") can hear differences in various set ups. However, given well-designed, well-manufactured amplifiers, the amplifiers are NOT causing the differences that you hear. There are lots of reasons that you (and I) hear differences, most of them having to do with how fleeting auditory memory is and how powerful our brains' pattern forming circuitry is. As I noted in an earlier post, I have participated in a number of blind (and double blind) listening tests. Neither I nor anyone else in any of the test groups could reliably (better that pure chance) identify different amps by their sound. I also noted that, outside of that "blind" environment, I hear the same subjective differences that everyone here vehemently claims are real and valid. So what? All that proves is that we are all human, all subject to the same psychoacoustic effects, all subject to the entire range of biases that our brains lock us into.
The simple truth is that our senses, via our brains, lie to us.
If anyone is interested, I have access to some wonderful speaker wire salvaged from the damaged Three Mile Island reactor. It features dilithium shielding so no skin effect or gamma ray interference. It has zero impedance loss from DC to light. It also serves as a handy night light. (Shamelessly stolen and paraphrased from an old Bob Carver newsletter).
This discussion is further confirmation of the findings of psychoacoustics. And the power of confirmation bias (google it).
For one final time: Of course you (and I and most of "the rest of us") can hear differences in various set ups. However, given well-designed, well-manufactured amplifiers, the amplifiers are NOT causing the differences that you hear. There are lots of reasons that you (and I) hear differences, most of them having to do with how fleeting auditory memory is and how powerful our brains' pattern forming circuitry is. As I noted in an earlier post, I have participated in a number of blind (and double blind) listening tests. Neither I nor anyone else in any of the test groups could reliably (better that pure chance) identify different amps by their sound. I also noted that, outside of that "blind" environment, I hear the same subjective differences that everyone here vehemently claims are real and valid. So what? All that proves is that we are all human, all subject to the same psychoacoustic effects, all subject to the entire range of biases that our brains lock us into.
The simple truth is that our senses, via our brains, lie to us.
If anyone is interested, I have access to some wonderful speaker wire salvaged from the damaged Three Mile Island reactor. It features dilithium shielding so no skin effect or gamma ray interference. It has zero impedance loss from DC to light. It also serves as a handy night light. (Shamelessly stolen and paraphrased from an old Bob Carver newsletter).
Your cables and interconnects should be most of that from your previous posts.
