Is there a point to this?

It seems to me that if a frequency makes you smarter, we should set up loudspeakers near polling stations on Election Day.

Is that just a guess or is there evidence that your brain functions better with a particular frequency? It sounds like you’re making it up though.

No one has said that any tool is perfect. It’s just a lot better than the alternative. Blind test, or your impression doesn’t count.

Everyone experiences bias and placebo. Even scientists. That’s why you apply controls to your comparison to minimize their effect. If you don’t apply controls, you don’t know for sure whether you are correctly judging. If you argue against those controls, it’s more than just not knowing. You...

Yeah... it's more than knowing though. It's being able to *do* good enough that someone is willing to pay you for it.

Try “knowing enough” in art! That isn’t easy either.

The way to objectively measure our perception is by applying controls to the comparison to minimize bias and perceptual error. And the best tool to do that with is the level matched, direct switched blind test with multiple trials averaged. If you don’t do that, you are very likely completely wrong.

Audiophools always think of electricity in terms of spigots and hoses full of water. It's not a good analogy, but they grip onto it firmly with both hands.

For those with multichannel systems, I highly recommend Rhino's new "quadio" box of Joni Mitchell on Asylum. Court and Spark has always sounded fantastic, and in multichannel, it sounds even better. Unlike other quadio releases, this incudes both a quad and an atmos mix. The atmos hews close to...

I saw it when it came out… I still want my $4 back.

It was the little man syndrome squared. They argued, kept trying to one up each other, bragged about the sex they got, and made every girl around them uncomfortable. They weren’t gentlemen. I could repeat the stories they told, but I’d immediately get banned.

I spent two weeks with little people on a shoot. They sure didn’t need a boost. Most of them were obnoxious. One guy was a circus clown and was very nice. Another was a quiet family man. The rest were swaggering monsters with foul mouths. The stories you hear are true. Maybe amputees are better.

Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires Wm Cameron Menzies' Invaders From Mars The original 50s Invasion of the Body Snatchers Planet of the Apes George Pal's The Time Machine and War of the Worlds Time After Time The Hidden and the infamous Robot Monster

Seconds with Rock Hudson… a devastating film, beautifully made. Sci Fi without space and rockets.