mherger;683990 Wrote: > Guys - when will you learn that religious wars can't be won? So please > either stop this stupid discussion, or at least stop complaining about > each other. This thread and its relatives have caused more reports than > all the last few months worth of spam... it's ridiculous.
I disagree to a degree with first part of this statement. Several members have presented factual evidence to support their claims/beliefs. Believing in something based on factual evidence is entirely different from believing in something which goes against the facts. There is no equivalence between the two and I'm sick and tired of having people declare that the two beliefs are equally valid. In the US we hear this kind of nonsense day in and day out in the world of politics, an area where science and logic are often completely ignored. The playback of recorded audio is based on science and works because of well founded scientific principles. Anything which clearly contradicts the established laws of science can and should be treated as nonsense. Granted there are many grey areas within known science but there are also many, many very well understood areas as well. When a snake oil vendor is trying to sell a worthless product which can be clearly shown to violate some of the well understood laws of science their defense is ALWAYS that the product works because it somehow working within one of those grey areas of science. To which I cry BS! For example the crackpot authors of that ridiculous series on computer audio now running in TAS do exactly what I stated above and it is not, nor should it ever be, an acceptable defense. I may sound harsh but whenever I think that I am being to rigid I just think back to something a very wise professor of thermodynamics once taught me: if someone is try to promote or sell a perpetual motion device the simplest and easiest way to debunk their device is to show that violates one or more of the fundamental laws of thermodynamics. And these devices ALWAYS one or more of these laws. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92918 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
