29 Dec
2004
29 Dec
'04
8:10 a.m.
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, der Mouse wrote:
Bahaha.
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> It always
makes me laugh when I see one group of lunatics say all
> the OTHER groups are lunatics. :)
> Whether we collect computers, radios,
typewriters, televisions,
> telegraphs keys, telephones, mathematical tools, hand tools, or
> whatever -- we're all basically doing the same thing.
Yeah, but you gotta admit, people who think
solder makes a difference
in how their Barney songs sound are seriously batty.
No more so than people who think that running a game on a real Apple ][
makes it run any better than running it on an emulator.
Emotional biases _aren't_ rational, almost by definition.
Besides, I'm not sure they're wrong. *I* certainly can't hear the
difference. But I've never been able to hear the difference between
tube and transistor, either, and that doesn't mean I can't accept that
a lot of audiophiles can. Indeed, I know one who tells me that if I
were to actually do a flip-between-them comparison, I would hear the
difference. (He might even be right for all I know - only one way to
tell for sure.) It's just plausible enough that the exact alloy used
in the solder affects the way the metal-to-metal junctions react to
current flowing through them that I don't dismiss it out of hand.