opaqueice;177741 Wrote: > I don't think he wrote that; it looks like a quote from the thread he > linked to. > > GaryB, sorry, but that's the nature of the internet, or normal > conversations for that matter - they go "off topic", whatever that > means. Especially when the initial subject is both controversial and > rather silly, as is the case here. > > There is simply no way to discuss audio quality seriously without blind > testing coming up. Not in every thread, but in a large fraction at > least. Asking that it never be mentioned is like asking that we never > mention CD players or turntables - afterall this is a forum for > streaming music players. It's just a senseless idea - BT is the only > way to conduct reliable comparisons and tests using your ears. That's > an obvious fact, there isn't any debate about it. It doesn't mean > every time you mention hearing something it has to have been done > blind, but it does mean that it's likely to come up once the discussion > gets even a little bit more in-depth than just "I thought this sounded > good." > > If you don't like it, no one's forcing you to read this forum.
Ah, I think you're right. My bad. Doesn't alter my opinion about whining meta-threads. As to the poster who suggested that people on the skeptical side should go start their own dbt forum as this is the audiophile forum: nobody gave you the right to arbitrate what audiophilia is. Many people care about good sound while still being skeptical. They have as much right to consider themselves audiophiles as you do. If you don't like that, well that's just too bad for you. People on the other side could just as easily say to you "if you don't like it, go form an audio mystics forum", although, interestingly, nobody has. -- 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
