[Swarm dude]

Iz Conclusiona

Autor Rod Eliott

...Compare this to the snake oil vendors. As an example, they buy perfectly ordinary cable from an established manufacturer, clad it in some fancy outer covering (extra points if it looks like carbon fibre or something highly esoteric), write their sales pitch, and sell it. They might actually bother to listen to it as well, but there isn't much point, since it is the same wire as used by countless others anyway. Do you see specifications, measurements, or other factual data? No! What you see on the colour glossies is a sales pitch, aimed directly at your emotional responses. There are no means for direct comparison, not a mention of anything that will help you to make a reasonable and informed decision as to which "thing" is (or might be) better than the other.
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Non blind listening tests are flawed - and especially so when conducted by a dealer. Don't expect that the levels will be precisely matched, but absolutely expect the salesthing to tell you what to hear - not exactly a fair comparison.

When only emotions are allowed to make the decision on technical equipment, we can be fairly certain that we will make the wrong choice, other than by chance. Having spent all that money, virtually no-one will be willing to admit that they were defrauded, robbed or deceived. The survival instinct takes over, and we hear exactly what we expect to - whether it exists ot not.

In the long term, the subjectivist approach will cost you a lot of money, and possibly yield a system that is less hi-fi than something from a department store. A review without technical tests is without substance or meaning, and nearly all descriptions about amplifier sound should be taken with a large dose of salt (possibly epsom).

Claims that power leads and interconnects will magically transform the sound of your system are false and misleading in the extreme. The various system components may be influenced by some combinations, but a well designed system should not care.
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There is great difficulty defining the quality of an audio experience - you can't draw a picture to show what something sounded like. In addition, our acoustical memory is far more fleeting and more readily fooled than visual memory. It is much easier to visualise what the Sydney Harbour Bridge looks like than to recall all but the basic details of a musical performance.

Uglavnom: naši dojmovi su uglavnom povezani sa nečim sličnom placebo efektu. Uvjereni smo da je zvuk bolji, a zapravo se ništa nije promijenilo. Usviravanje je po meni, a vjerujem i po Rodu, samo adaptacija našeg mozga i mijenjanje naše subjektivne procjene - u vidu kablova, sistem po svim realnim i znanstvenim pokazateljima svira identično bez obzira je li žica nova ili 10 godina ukopčana u isto pojačalo i zvučnike.
Samo se mijenja zvuk zvučnika jer se razrađuju s vremenom i pojačala i drugih komponenti koje ipak postižu termičku ravnotežu nakon nekog vremena. Pa na kraju krajeva i komponente unutar njima stare pa mijenjaju sonična svojstva...

E sad - zašto ja pletem žice? Jer volim napraviti nešto novo, a i to će biti bolje od vulgaris 2*0,75 mm^2 zvučnike žice koju sad koristim. Pa makar samo vizualno i placebo