> If he could shut down his reasoning and spend hours moving resonator stones around on top of his CD transport until he thought he had improved the sound, and

> If he could shut down his reasoning and spend hours moving resonator stones around on top of his CD transport until he thought he had improved the sound, and this gave him pleasure, was that pleasure not real even if the sound was exactly the same? Of course it was, the placebo effect exists and works after all. Where these audiophiles turn into audiophools is here: > hideously expensive isolation platforms, resonator weights, unobtanium cables, "ambient field conditioners"... You name it They allow themselves to be duped by unscrupulous snake oil merchants instead of simply telling themselves that the rocks they collected on the beach are just the thing to liven up their sound stage.