On 11 Feb 2006 05:12:35 -0800, "Andy Evans"
wrote:

Hello Serge: your posts are clearly argued and easy to read.

Before defending Pinkerton you might want to deliberate on why he tells
people
"the Cambridge unit will provide audibly superior performance" or
various other such things that slip indiscriminately out of his mouth,
and which he seems to conveniently forget he said.

Perhaps you might want to stop lying, and taking phrases out of
context. I said that, at the budget of £150 which was being discussed,
it was *probable* that the Cambridge would be audibly superior to the
others mentioned. At that price level, a heavy-duty power supply is
unaffordable, and that certainly *can* cause audible differences among
amplifiers.

Just because *you* tell flat lies, and make lots of wild and totally
unsupported claims about the sound of passive components, don't assume
that everyone else does.

You might come to
the conclusion that there are some serious double standards going on in
this newsgroup. You may come to the conclusion that in practice even
hardened proponants of the scientific method will casually say "to my
ears this sounds better than that". You may then come to the same
conclusion as I did - that if people are doing one thing in theory and
another in practice, then it may be interesting to re-examine the
theory. Andy

Maybe you should just start using reliable and repeatable listening
tests, as I would expect any *competent* psychologist to do. After
all, you of all people *should* be well aware of the uselessness of
sighted comparisons. Clearly however, you prefer lies and misquotation
to any real examination of your flawed beliefs.

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering