I am tempted to try one on the cd player. Thing is I am not one of these who is happy if it sounds better. I will still want to know why.
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I am tempted to try one on the cd player. Thing is I am not one of these who is happy if it sounds better. I will still want to know why.
Having heard the difference a decent mains cable from MCRU made to my system, once I have finished upgrading the power leads, I may try an internal fuse or three to see if they do make a difference to my ears.
DB A/B equal level within 0.1dB testing anyone?
What if there is no satisfactory explanation available?
Would you still trust your ears, telling you there is a difference (hopefully an improvement), and leave it there and enjoy the upgrade, and its effect on your favourite music, or drive yourself demented trying to explain the (perhaps currently) unexplainable? :)
Not everything experienced in life can be neatly pigeonholed into little boxes of 'indisputable proof', designed to make you feel better about yourself! ;)
Marco.
If in doubt...God did it :)
And here we have in a nutshell the problem with being an arch subjectivist.
It has nothing to do with 'feeling better about myself'. It has everything to do with wanting to understand how audio replay works so that knowledge can be put to practical effect, not just in creating better audio systems but in creating cheaper audio systems.
If the fuse makes a difference/improvement beyond the placebo level then there certainly will be a satisfactory technical explanation for it. Antony TD already has his suspicions and has asked for some easily-provided information to take that further.
Sorry, but I am not one of those people who is happy to sit back and accept that it is 'magic' or that it doesn't matter as long as 'Wish You Were Here' sounds good to me.
If that attitude was common to everyone we would still be living in the Dark Ages and sacrificing chickens to the rain god.
We can hear everything we measure, but we can't measure everything we hear. :)
Not entirely convinced by that particular aphorism, James.
Everything real is quantifiable.