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Distortion down to -300 dB, what exactly does that mean physically?
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No, that was in 2017, in 2018 Sir Watts was already hitting -350dB, and still going... 
"...and what I've discovered is that it doesn't matter how small the error is, if it is an error, it's audible...and it's audible in depth collapses"
"...and I thought... I can't publish this numbers because the Sound Science Brigade will say I'm a lunatic... or that I'm just trying to create sales and come up with a load of bullshit about products..."
Well, can't argue with that last one... XD XD XD
Editor's Note: Well, all the great people of science had a defining eureka moment in their life, Sir Newton had an apple fall on his head from a tree... Sir Watts had a dog bark at him from six miles away.
"...and what I've discovered is that it doesn't matter how small the error is, if it is an error, it's audible...and it's audible in depth collapses"
"...and I thought... I can't publish this numbers because the Sound Science Brigade will say I'm a lunatic... or that I'm just trying to create sales and come up with a load of bullshit about products..."
Well, can't argue with that last one... XD XD XD
Editor's Note: Well, all the great people of science had a defining eureka moment in their life, Sir Newton had an apple fall on his head from a tree... Sir Watts had a dog bark at him from six miles away.
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Oh wait... I think I found a scientific explanation to all of this... 
"...in the past I designed, ahem, cables, interconnect cables, loudspeakers cables..."
Make sure you don't miss the 2nd installment "Cats and Time Travel", a scientific gem in its own right.
"...in the past I designed, ahem, cables, interconnect cables, loudspeakers cables..."
Make sure you don't miss the 2nd installment "Cats and Time Travel", a scientific gem in its own right.
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Do we know what happens to the signal between the electrons?
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Do we know what happens to the signal between the electrons?
By using more taps you can interpolate what's happening between the electrons...
I keep hearing about blind tests' being stressful. Is this something that audio reviewers and high-end industry guys just say? Or is there evidence that blind tests actually cause stress on their own, separate from the possibility of exposing some people as fakers?I attended of his latest talks. At the end I asked him if he could hear such differences blind. He said he didn't believe in blind tests because they are too stressful. I let him be at that point.
If the latter, it makes me wonder about hearing tests. When you take a hearing test, a light doesn't flash telling you that a tone is coming out of the headphones. Shouldn't that be stressful? Based on the results of that test, you learn whether something is wrong with your ears or nervous system. Yet I never found the hearing test experience to be too stressful.
What they never explain is why that stress magically vanishes when testing level, frequency response, localization, compression…
Lame excuses for avoiding basic controls are rampant in all sorts of quackery, not just audio.
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Imagine how stressful blind tests for medicines that determine live or death must be. Nevertheless these are common practice.
Indeed. Just about any wine certification requires multiple blind tests.
I suppose it would depend upon how the electrons move between atoms. Quantum or Classical move - I don't know.
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Ok, upon a little reading - copper has a "swarm" of a gazillion free electrons, so I guess a few get nudged past wherever the measurement point is, and the "average" of their random motions is taken as the flow, so, it's like analog, though i suppose they have to move at least a Planck length, or 1.616255(18)×10−35 m, so it's a bit jerky.
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Anything 300dB something, would be stressful for most people I guessI attended of his latest talks. At the end I asked him if he could hear such differences blind. He said he didn't believe in blind tests because they are too stressful. I let him be at that point.
Why does he feel he needs the BS when his designs measure so well.
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I'd imagine, for some people, lie detector tests are stressful too
Because he believes we can perceive time delays of 1 / 250000 of a second. Or at least that cats can.
EDIT: no, I wasn't kidding about the cats (or time travel ;-) ), Sir Watts mentions a cat brain probing experiment from the 1950s.
EDIT: no, I wasn't kidding about the cats (or time travel ;-) ), Sir Watts mentions a cat brain probing experiment from the 1950s.
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Polygraph tests are actually stressful and don't work well. They are still used in the CIA recruitment process, which, I'm told by former CIA personnel, precludes getting the best and the brightest.
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