Why is the word placebo used incorrectly time and again? A placebo is a term used in pharmacology, dead stop. It is inappropriate to use it for audio applications. A drug is efficacious, or not, quantitatively, in clinical trials that use placebos as blinded negative controls so that the effects of the drug under study can be quantified and appropriately documented. Only in that manner can the drug be established, or not, to be efficacious according to its indicated use.
That is NOT what we are talking about here and I would GREATLY appreciate it if thread contributors here would cease its use. Stop it!
That is NOT what we are talking about here and I would GREATLY appreciate it if thread contributors here would cease its use. Stop it!