TheOctavist;697638 Wrote: > I am of the opinion that bullshit should not be tolerated as it does a > great disservice to the audio community in general. SBGKs "mods" fall > under that category. > > what happens is you get gullible new guys(they seem to come here in > droves) and you have some person or other telling them they "need to do > XXX" to get the SBT to sound acceptable or good or whatever. > > i also think that anything dedicated to technical discussion of audio > should be fact checked and vetoed if not backed up by science. > > I dont mind them discussing it...but it doesnt belong here...on Klaus > blog is the best place for it. > > stuff like this serves only to further damage the reputation of > audiophiles as being gullible, cargo cult lunatics. > > IMO, YMMV, GTFO, OMFG, YHF, UHF, etc > > also...if someone asks for a donation or whatever..dont they have a > responsibility to prove the products worth(IE WITH MEASUREMENTS!)? > > there should be a seperate subforum at least for the > fringe/beltists/sheldrakes/geoff kait types. IE the "FRINGE AUDIOPHILE > SUBFORUM"
Disservice to community not only audio community IMO and the audiophile subforum is already considered the an " off place" on this forum ( read the forum description for a hint ) the owners have already given up on audiophiles :-/ but do consider their money real enough to let them buy squeezeboxes on account of their imagined properties to...... But I do think it is bad pr as obviously false claims about the products properties and performance are made all the time and tolerated but then again this is normal in the audio press too and maybe an accepted reality if you want to sell to audiophiles :-/ the product sell if you win the lottery of a good subjective review . I just wonder what BMW would say if someone claims that thier car's only do 30km/h unless you used a special tweak ( server mods ) in an official car forum . If you take the hype on this forum seriously you learn that the Touch's performance is downright unlistenable unmodified probably on par with an old cassette that been in your car ( in the sun )since 1983 . And we are talking errors that are agreed to be smaller than one bit ? As most hype is " heard " trough the digital out ? I'll bet my lunch money that I could truncate a bit on the signal and the diff would be subtle , not a world changing experience and a change like that is several magnitudes larger than what is proposed in these forums. It was bit better when the original founder was around he could sometimes inject some sense ( do check out Sean Adams respons o matic form for audiophile claims in some old tread ). Regarding the Touch I've never seen the hardware designer comment or write anything about the design off Touch . Which is a pity ? -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
