Re: Could I have paid JGH to say it better?

In article <SK2dnTcMCO2YF9LanZ2dnUVZ_qqgnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://stereophile.com/asweseeit/1107awsi/

"Vitality? Don't make me laugh. Audio as a hobby is dying, largely by its
own hand. As far as the real world is concerned, high-end audio lost its
credibility during the 1980s, when it flatly refused to submit to the kind
of basic honesty controls (double-blind testing, for example) that had
legitimized every other serious scientific endeavor since Pascal. [This
refusal] is a source of endless derisive amusement among rational people and
of perpetual embarrassment for me, because I am associated by so many people
with the mess my disciples made of spreading my gospel. For the record: I
never, ever claimed that measurements don't matter. What I said (and very
often, at that) was, they don't always tell the whole story. Not quite the
same thing."

We discussed this weeks ago. By "real world," he presumably means
himself.

Stephen
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