Yeah, he is on ad-fi too.
It looks like he has one objective in life, flying the sound science brigade flag!
Wonder how such obsession came about... aha "my Oppo HA1 and Oppo PM1 is the bestest ever!"
Pfft, music objectivists. I'd like to see one of them design a listening experiment that can be statistically analysed at all, be it parametric/non-parametric or Bayesian, and prepare the R script for the test codes while they're at it.
I think one aspect is for some to feel self-important (e.g. "I'm the guardian of the 'objectivist' science") and expert (e.g. "I'm an objective 'objectivist'! I'm a scientist!"), when they quite obviously are not. I think it's a pretty curious social phenomenon, and it seems to be galvanized by the internet, as you don't see such people getting such disproportionate attention IRL.
I know... he also mentioned that "science does double blind...", as if science is a person that does something. A scientist doesn't even talk about science, but about his particular expertise etc.
LOL! Honestly i think these are possibly people who cannot stand to be wrong, who can't stand to not have the best of something but they don't have or don't trust their own listening skills. So they must default to what they think is proof that they have "the best."
What I love about these loud "objectivist" protestations, is that there are pretty credible testaments out there -- in self-administered and level-matched double-blind setting -- that DACs can be reliably identified. If you can trust atomicbob for testing results for audio gear, you can probably trust him for self-administered DBT results. And the whole Life After Yggdrasil is one long string of DBT evaluations...
The best way I found is not to counter-argue with subjective impressions but to break the foundations of his flawed argument about so called science facts. Counter false science with real science. This way one can easily drive the knife into the heart of his arguments.
Then enjoy looking as his tower of knowledge smashes down into pieces.
Interesting read @landroni thanks for the link. There are so many variables with respect to human's psychology, neurophysiology and the sense of hearing that a very expensive study would be needed to control them and answer just one question. No such studies exist.
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