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Danny's ASR "Will you ACCEPT my Challenge?!"

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this is complete waste of time. Better he focus more on washing his clothes
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Better he focus more on washing his clothes.
Your in luck! A secret but reputable source told me his next challenge will be 3 T-shirts: the original, one washed with a generic detergent, and one using a GR branded new detergent! It’s your job to see if you can keep them apart..?
 
Do we know what the point of the challenge is yet? I'm guessing either B or C is recorded using his fancy cable?
 
Your in luck! A secret but reputable source told me his next challenge will be 3 T-shirts: the original, one washed with a generic detergent, and one using a GR branded new detergent! It’s your job to see if you can keep them apart..?
You mean his "GR >>>> ASR" t-shirts? Or his "ASR isn't qualified to carry my GR Research peer-reviewed papers!" t-shirts?
 
Do we know what the point of the challenge is yet?
Cast a wider net, find more inexperienced or gullible people and sell more product, i think.:oops:
 
Cast a wider net, find more inexperienced or gullible people and sell more product, i think.:oops:
Online fights are a great way to attract attention.
 
Had he used his power cable on a washing machine, would his T-shirt be substantially cleaner?
I know you're joking, but I always wondered why the audiophools claim that a power cable on audio equipment makes a difference, but it's not the case for any other piece of electronics. Nobody ever says, "Oh you bought a 2 grand 4K HD TV? Well you won't get the best picture unless you use this special power cord." Or computer guys will shell out thousands, meticulously choosing each component for a PC. And the power cord? Well they just use whatever came with the power supply. Because they know it doesn't make a difference.
And what power cords are the record companies using on all the expensive electronics that records the music? The cord that came with the equipment that's what.
 
I know you're joking, but I always wondered why the audiophools claim that a power cable on audio equipment makes a difference, but it's not the case for any other piece of electronics. Nobody ever says, "Oh you bought a 2 grand 4K HD TV? Well you won't get the best picture unless you use this special power cord." Or computer guys will shell out thousands, meticulously choosing each component for a PC. And the power cord? Well they just use whatever came with the power supply. Because they know it doesn't make a difference.
And what power cords are the record companies using on all the expensive electronics that records the music? The cord that came with the equipment that's what.
Well, sure. Who's stupid enough to think a power cord improves performance?
 
I know you're joking, but I always wondered why the audiophools claim that a power cable on audio equipment makes a difference, but it's not the case for any other piece of electronics. Nobody ever says, "Oh you bought a 2 grand 4K HD TV? Well you won't get the best picture unless you use this special power cord."
Eh… yes, that is exactly the claim these type of companies make, even for TVs.
 
Nobody ever says, "Oh you bought a 2 grand 4K HD TV? Well you won't get the best picture unless you use this special power cord."
Sadly some say that as well, at least in the case of power conditioners and filters. Designer of the PS Audio Directstream DAC comes to mind (despite his engineering degree). Fortunately that is easy to debunk as video can be frozen and with test patterns, you can tell if something has or has not changed.
 
Or computer guys will shell out thousands, meticulously choosing each component for a PC. And the power cord? Well they just use whatever came with the power supply. Because they know it doesn't make a difference.
This is one I often cite to when talking about this kind of nonsense.

The CPU in your PC has literally hundreds of millions of transistors measured on the scale of nanometres, and your RAM has literally billions of transistors measured on the same scale. All those tiny transistors accept dozens or hundreds of watts of power to make them flip on and off billions of times per second and if they flip the wrong way, you're going to get corrupted data or system crashes. There's some error-correction checking going on but for the most part, those switches just flip the way they're supposed to more than 99.99% of the time. If dirty power couldn't be filtered by a power supply and was going to actually affect the output of a decently-engineered electronic device, dirty power would screw up your PC way before it ever started giving you problems in bog-simple devices like Class A/B amplifiers. But your CPU and RAM get their power from a cheap nasty switching power supply plugged into the wall with a $2 power cord and they're happy as clams to run that way for years without issue.
 
Nobody ever says, "Oh you bought a 2 grand 4K HD TV? Well you won't get the best picture unless you use this special power cord."
It's much easier to do controlled testing with image. You just put two of the same TV side by side and look at the image, as closely and as long as you want. Or loop save 10 second clip as many times as you want. Unfortunately there are noticeable unit to unit variations in TVs, but you can note these beforehand and of course change the unit that has premium cabling during the tests.

Even if you do this knowing which one has the premium power or HDMI cable it's still pretty obvious that there is no difference. And even if somebody would posess the mental capability to imagine there to be a difference, vast majority can't get there. So, it's just too hard to scam enough people for there to be a financial benefit.
 
It's much easier to do controlled testing with image. You just put two of the same TV side by side and look at the image
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your eyes are not evolved to be objective tools, there is very much post processing and loss compression happening.
Subjectively A and B are different:
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Objectively A and B have the same color:
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There are many post processing filters inside our brain that change what the eyes receptors detect into an internal subjective view of reality.
Can't trust your eyes. Can't trust your ears. Can't trust any sensors you have, sadly.
 
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your eyes are not evolved to be objective tools, there is very much post processing and loss compression happening.

You mean that if we are given the same image in two identical screens we are unable to compare them objectively?
 
You mean that if we are given the same image in two identical screens we are unable to compare them objectively?
Yes, that is exactly and precisely what i mean. The keyword is objectively.
 
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