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From: drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley)
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Subject: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 11:11:29 EDT
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bmaraldo@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) writes:
>    What you have said here is simply a matter of opinion.  I
>    can hear differences between audio cables.  I can not report and
>    differences under controlled double-blind tests because I have never
>    taken part in one.  I am not attempting to convince you that I can hear
>    a difference, but what I hear is good enough for me.

I once worked in the engineering section of Bose Corp. (as a computer
programmer).  Some of the engineers there once discussed the fact that
certain audio effects that everybody agreed were real (not placing
speakers directly against the wall makes them sound better) could not
be reproduced in blindfold experiments.

Conclusion:  "What one hears" is only a very poor reflection of
"what's really out there".  The enterprise of science has spent an
enormous amount of effort in "learning how to measure", so that the
myriad factors that color our perceptions can be avoided.  The ability
of our expectations and culture to determine what we see is enormous.

After all, how could someone believe something as rediculous as the
religious beliefs that *other people* believe?  But aren't we all very
fixed in our religious beliefs, and don't they come from observation
of just about the same data?

Dale