In rec.audio.tech Jim Lesurf wrote:

Despite fancy titles or statements in popular science books or TV
programmes, science and experimental methods aren't about the 'truth'. That
is best left to theologians, lawyers, and mathematicians. Different union,
so we have to avoid demarkation disputes. :-) Scientific experiments are
about obtaining evidence to check ideas and see if they are reliable as
descriptions of how things behave - or not. If this approach can't be used,
then it isn't science.

IOW, science is about building testable *models* of reality. I'm not
sure why the OP has a problem with this.

Of more practical use, I've been coerced into this:

http://www.musicintheround.co.uk/

So perhaps listening to live music, having a listen at home, and making
up my own mind (about media and equipment) is the way to go?! Life's too
short :-)

I gave up most attempts to compare items of equipment years ago. It is
useful if someone does this, but as you indicate, it does waste time you
could spend just enjoying the music. :-)

But then one should follow Wittgenstein's dictum, "Whereof one cannot speak,
thereof one must be silent."

I have found 'shucks, just stop all this hifalutin' analysis stuff and
just listen to the music' to be a typical, false-dichotomy last resort of
'debaters' on these issues who have realized they're shooting blanks.

If the OP's stance is *really* in the end that 'life's too short' to
investigate the why of LP and CD sound, then why has he gone to such effort
of twirling all his philosophico-semantic hoops about the matter here?
It must have been tedious to write, and it was surely tedious to read.



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"As human beings, we understand the world through simile, analogy,
metaphor, narrative and, sometimes, claymation." - B. Mason