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In my opinion, one of the more overused phrases in this forum is "night and day."
Thinking about this, what people mean is that the difference is dramatic as night and day. The implication is that it's as easy to tell the audio difference, as it is to be able to tell the difference between night and day.
To me that implies that most people can tell the difference, and very quickly.
Let's take a statement like 'I bought amplifier XYZ' and when compared to amplifier 'ABC' and the difference was night and day.
Taking that statement at face value, nearly everyone could tell the difference, tell it immediately and be able to do this consistently without knowing which amplifier was connected.
Yet, people have regularly failed to be able to tell amplifiers apart in listening tests. I am not saying amplifiers cannot sound different. I am saying, how can the difference be night and day between two amps? In my thinking that either requires a defective amplifier or a distortion of the meaning of 'night and day'
My point is that the the phrase 'night and day' is not only overused, but it's incorrectly used and misleading. Maybe I am thinking too much about this.
What do people think about the use of this term?
Thinking about this, what people mean is that the difference is dramatic as night and day. The implication is that it's as easy to tell the audio difference, as it is to be able to tell the difference between night and day.
To me that implies that most people can tell the difference, and very quickly.
Let's take a statement like 'I bought amplifier XYZ' and when compared to amplifier 'ABC' and the difference was night and day.
Taking that statement at face value, nearly everyone could tell the difference, tell it immediately and be able to do this consistently without knowing which amplifier was connected.
Yet, people have regularly failed to be able to tell amplifiers apart in listening tests. I am not saying amplifiers cannot sound different. I am saying, how can the difference be night and day between two amps? In my thinking that either requires a defective amplifier or a distortion of the meaning of 'night and day'
My point is that the the phrase 'night and day' is not only overused, but it's incorrectly used and misleading. Maybe I am thinking too much about this.
What do people think about the use of this term?