A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from

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A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from the best-sounding existing violins.
To professional violinists, a violin that sounds different from the best-sounding existing violins sounds less like a violin and therefore worse than the best-sounding existing violins.
Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins.
Would be the best supported by those statements?

Would be the best supported by those statements?

(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists.

ShashankDave · Accepted Answer

I will go with D . As a lot of discussion has already been done, I will try to hit a subtle point here. The passage explicitly talks about "best-sounding existing violins". So consider D , which says that its impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges would consider an Improved sound violin, which obviously will then become the best sounding violin , which is not possible since whatever sounds different from the existing best , and the new violin will sound different at stated in the passage, will be actually considered/judged worse . So we can never convince the judges of a differently albeit better sounding violin. Show some love! Kudos if you liked it.

yangsta8 · Answer

My guess is D (assuming the question is what is the best conclusion?)

(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.
Who should be asked to judge is out of scope.
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.
Supervision of construction is out of scope.
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.
How long these violins have been in existence is out of scope.
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.
This is what the passage implies.
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists.
We do not know what non professionals think.

gmattokyo · Answer

At first look it seemed D to me also. But I'd pick on E (maybe I'm reading too much into this

) here's why E... It looks well connected. New improved violins have different sounds -> professional violins don't accept different sounds and they are the only accepted judges -> so new improved violins cannot be created. BUT on re-reading the first sentence, "Violin constructed to have improved sound"... is there a possibility that the violin is not constructed to have improved sound, but designed to please the professional judges? On this basis I chose E over D (all the other options are stricken out).

nandini11 · Answer

My Answer would be D 
E is our because it mentions 
1) Violin constructed would have a better sound but we know that it only sounds differently 
2) We do not know if people other than professionals like the sound of constructed violin or not.
OA please.

gurpreet07 · Answer

OA is D......

the question is from 1000 CR

Infact somebody mentioned that D is too extreme...to which i don't agree
In option E its mentioned that It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists..
this is too extreme as an assumtion as the author already mentions that  "Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins" . Since the target audience are professional violinists, we can't assume that it is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than exisitng violins to everyone.

I hope i am clear with my explanation

zaarathelab · Answer

A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from the best-sounding existing violins.
To professional violinists, a violin that sounds different from the best-sounding existing violins sounds less like a violin and therefore worse than the best-sounding existing violins.
Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins.
Would be the best supported by those statements?
(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists.

E is out of scope. As it goes beyond to suggest what would sound better to 'everyone'. We have no info on non-professionals
D correctly limits the scope to the discussion and fits the info

Hence D

subhashghosh · Answer

The answer is D, as E goes beyond the scope of the stimulus, it suggests something which is not indicated in the stimulus. This is a must be true question, so we have to go by whatever is given in the stimulus.

HG0815 · Answer

IMO OA is D

(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins.
 -> incorrect. Professinal violinists can judge that.
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins.
 -> incorrect. Although professional violinists can judge the quality, we cannot assure that they supervise the manufacturing.
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence fro several centuries.
 -> No information
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.
 -> correct.
 The passage mentions that only professional violinist can judge the sound, and they think constructed violin sound is not similar to best-sounding existing violin's. 
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists. 
 -> incorrect. The passage already argues that it is not possible.

tinytiger · Answer

Here's the thing about the accepted judges - for these judges, any new violin can only be as good as existing violins, or be worse off.

I think the key here is to see that the professional violinists, who are the sole qualified judges of a newly constructed violin, would always use the benchmark of the best sounding existing violins for gauging new violins.

We are also told that so long as the new violins sound DIFFERENT, the new violins are deemed by the judges as worse off. Technically, a new violin that is constructed could actually sound worse off, or actually sound BETTER.

But, for any new violin that sounds DIFFERENT from the existing violins, the professional violinists will strike it off as 'worse off'.

Hence, D must be the answer because there is no way to construct something that's actually better than the existing violins and also qualified by the accepted judges as better than the best existing violins.

Spongeman · Answer

To find the best-supported conclusion from the given statements, let's analyze each statement and then evaluate how they logically connect to the answer choices:

"A violin constructed to have improved sound would sound different from the best-sounding existing violins."  
  "To professional violinists, a violin that sounds different from the best-sounding existing violins sounds less like a violin and therefore worse than the best-sounding existing violins."  
  "Professional violinists are the only accepted judges of the sound quality of violins."

These statements set up a scenario where any new violin, despite its intended improvements, would be deemed inferior by professional violinists if it sounds different from existing top-quality violins. The fact that these violinists are the sole accepted judges complicates the acceptance of any new violin that sounds different.
Now, let's consider the answer choices:
 
(A) Only amateur violinists should be asked to judge the sound quality of newly constructed violins. 
 
 This is not supported directly. The statements do not discuss amateur violinists or suggest shifting who should judge violin quality, only that professionals are currently the accepted judges.  
 
(B) Professional violinists supervise the construction of violins. 
 
 There is no information provided about who supervises violin construction.  
 
(C) The best-sounding existing violins have been in existence for several centuries. 
 
 Although this might be an interesting historical note, it is not mentioned or implied in the statements.  
 
(D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound. 
 
 This directly follows from the information given. Since professional violinists view any different-sounding violin as inferior and they are the only accepted judges, a newly constructed violin deemed to have improved sound qualities would not be recognized as such by these judges.  
 
(E) It is possible to construct a violin that sounds better than the best-sounding existing violins to everyone but professional violinists. 
 
 This might be true, but it's speculative based on the given statements. It introduces the idea of universal (excluding professionals) agreement, which isn't directly supported by the text.

The best-supported conclusion from the provided statements is  (D) It is currently impossible to construct a violin that the only accepted judges will evaluate as having improved sound.  This conclusion is a direct inference from the setup that professional violinists, who are the sole judges, would rate any differently sounding violin as worse, thus making it impossible under the current judging system to introduce a violin considered to have improved sound.

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