Snake oil, fraud, confirmation bias


It is becoming increasingly apparent that many threads about legitimate topics devolve into one or more of the contributors here making claims of snake oil, fraud, or confirmation bias thereby derailing the conversation beyond the valid and relevant thread topic and this is getting ridiculous. For anyone here who honestly holds the position that there is snake oil and fraud in the world of Music Reproduction Systems I challenge them to prove their claims in court it should be an easy task based on the claims they make here in Audiogon  AND they will make a fortune because in the US once proven they can file a class action suit and profit enormously from the efforts of others to deceive. These people regularly claim that "there is no evidence" that things such as cables or fuses make a difference when in actual fact Audiogon is filled with evidence that these things make very real differences in Music Reproduction Systems of course those who claim fraud reject that evidence as "confirmation bias" but in absence of any documentation from them they are only repeating the claim they have made so many times that has been refuted many times here by those who have demonstrated to there satisfaction that they make a difference.   I think in actual truth the real fraudsters here are those that repeatedly make these claims of snake oil and fraud and often they have no experience to back up there claims they simply say the claims are impossible!
clearthink
a World is complex value that consists of Reality portion and the World we want to be in portion just like complex numbers in math.
audiophiles mostly use imaginary portion of the complex value and therefore believe into many unreal thingies.

@kosst_amojan  How should a chef measure the flavor of a meal?  How does a nice young las who receives a bouquet of roses from her beau measure the fragrance?  How do you or anyone else measure the incredibly complex process that is an individual's hearing?  Are everyone's ears the same? Does everyone's brain process sound the same as everyone else? If so, is that a constant from which we can discern from your measurements that we all hear exactly the same?

Come on... your religion of "All things are measurable" is well... your religion.  Does that make a tape measure or sound pressure meter your god? 

Again...I sympathize that you can't hear cable differences or component burn-in etc.  Truth be told, I would not process the smell of those roses well as my sense of smell is not nearly as acute as most folks I encounter.  Wonder how we can measure that?
@hifiman5 good point and I would ask further is there a more sensitive instrument for appreciating sound than the human ear? We hear what we hear and we like what we like case closed. I love my system it "measures" well to my ears, fancy cables, aftermarket fuse and all!
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