GaryB;176845 Wrote: > I think these two quotes from opaquesce and tomjtx summarizes the > problem I've been having with the debate over in the thread on whether > on isolation feet for the SB3. > > Our friend Opaquesce is convinced that speakers and room effects are so > important that nothing else matters. That's fine but he continually > jumps in to try to convince others of this fact and doesn't allow them > to have their discussion. > > Tomjtx complains that we're trying to silence people who disagree but > it's really this tendency of our "objectivist" friends to stop > discussions on subjectivist topics that we're trying to address. Using > the isolation feet thread as an example, I did a simple measurement > which should satisfy the scientists in the crowd. I looked at the > first page of the thread (the first 10 posts) and I counted how many > posts were on topic and how many were off topic. Being generous, I > counted 5 posts that addressed the topic of the use of isolation feet > for the SB3. The other 5 ridiculed the idea of tweaks and effectively > shut down any serious discussion on the topic of isolation feet. > > Here are a couple of examples: > > > > > > My view is that these types of comments only serve to shut down > discussion and are really bad form. The reason I started this thread > about a DBT-free zone is to see if we could find some sort of > compromise so that people can have real discussions about various > things we find to improve the sound of the SB3 or other components in > our system without being subjected to this type of disparagement. > > I welcome serious discussion on this point. > > Thanks, > ---Gary
Again, this cuts both ways. I've seen plenty of threads where, for instance, the OP says his bass response isn't what he'd like, someone suggests a good sub, and a tweaker comes in with "oh, if you want more bass, yes, but I thought you wanted better bass", and proceeds to make a recommendation you would have to believe in alternative physics to accept. The whole idea of the tweakers as a persecuted group is something that's a little hard to credit. I'll grant you, on some other fora, they're given more carte blanche, but so what? -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32352 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
