Does Media Theory Explain Audio Subjectivism (and everything?) + I asked "Troll AI" to Defend Subjectivists

[GGroch]

Hey, I resemble that remark!

I am convinced that as my 72 Y/O senses deteriorate, evolution compensates by increasing my cognitive bias. Not a bad thing, its why I can still hear air, soundstage, and bloom. We seniors have "heard it all before" because we can hear so little now.

 

[antcollinet]

"It seems I’ve successfully graduated from "obsequious assistant" to "sophisticated turd polisher." I'll take it as a compliment."

Lol - that is brilliant.

 

[antcollinet]

I am convinced that as my 72 Y/O senses deteriorate, evolution compensates by increasing my cognitive bias. Not a bad thing, its why I can still hear air, soundstage, and bloom. We seniors have "heard it all before" because we can hear so little now.

Its not so bad though. We are mostly only losing the last out of ten octaves (and so far, i'm only 2/3 of the way through that.. It is why even with the high end hearing loss, music still sounds great.

 

[Sal1950]

But the implication was clear - that the MF would be more beautiful, if not better!

Yes we hear that BS repeated in the subjective community over and over ad-infinitum

What you need to be looking for when you read statements like that is clarity and evidence. For example - what on earth does ".. a low level mist of white noise .." look like? How is it created technicaly. More important - what studies have they done to verify that it "..may well sound preferable " (The word "may" here doing a lot of heavy lifting in identifying pure BS)

I don't see where "mist noise" has to be given any sort of objective confirmation at all, that's just ass-backwards thinking. The introduction of any sort of distortion-alteration of the source signal can never make the output more accurate or High Fidelity than source. DUH To some listener it can make it more preferable sounding to him, but that's a distortion of his personal goal.

No problem as I see it if it is motivated by looks or the feeling of having a status gadget. I'm just saying watches.

I've no problem with luxury level products, Gear like Pass or D'Augistino shows off it's high cost in it's physical construction.
It's just a shame the High End marketing wing has spent decades BSing their customer base that the distortion they introduce can actually be better Hi-Fi than a product that measured better. Also that they can hear things that can't be measured and is the result of some magic properties still not understood.