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Originally Posted by BringItBack

When medical science tells people they are terminally ill and they survive far beyond the prognosis - science loses! We all know science suffers a thousand defeats for every victory - that's part of the scientific method and progress.

Not at all comparable - very bad analogy. In that sense "medical science" is not an exact science. A null test is. The key is to know what science can and cannot say, and when a null test nulls, it's definitive; there can not possibly be any difference (with respect to the audio files that null - in this case the output of a DAW).

Originally Posted by BringItBack

The first thing true scientists learn about before conducting any controlled experiments are the outliers and anomalies - they generally do this so they can perform the experiments with the median/standard deviation in mind (or to exclude the anomalies) , already knowing the extremes and that some exceptions to the rule exist.

"Digital" means that everything is within an ordered, quantized world where all is predictable. There is no room for uncertainty. That's the beauty of it.

Originally Posted by BringItBack

The "onus" would be on the "scientists" who feel the need to argue with individuals based on descriptions of the individual's own perceptions.

A more valid argument would be posed by determining the factors that lead so many people to hear these subtle differences and examining whether the results had more to do with psychological factors or physiological factors and of the people who can do this consistently - what is different about them in particular?

But nobody has yet shown to be able to do this consistently, which is completely consistent with the hypothesis that it's all imaginary. Which is a perfectly straightforward explanation, as it happens to us all all the time. What's the problem in admitting that!?

Originally Posted by BringItBack

Science has its place, but it's only half the battle for musicians - specs can point you in the right direction but you still (should) use your ears to decide whether you want a piece of equipment even when you blindly trust those specs. Personally, I choose the science behind the sound of Samplitude - whatever makes it do what it does works well for me.

Sorry, you just don't get science. Nothing I can do to help. Go blindly trusting your ears as that is obviously what you so desire.