John Curl's Blowtorch preamplifier part III

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So to speak, when I was about 12 or 13 a friend claimed that you would weigh more than an extra pound by eating a pound of bread. I had filters for nonsense well established long before this. I have to admit I have known people that would never read a book or magazine that anyone else had touched, bought new shoes every two weeks, and never wore any underwear more than once (even checking in the store to make sure no one had touched it).
 
Yes. During his last few months here he seemed to be getting increasingly frustrated with some of the nonsense being repeated over and over again. There are times when I have been tempted to follow him.

SY is great except in one way he wasnt ---- every uttered thought, test, deed or comment was accompanied with did you do a DBLT? Only such test mattered to him as 'proof'. Really annoying in his insistence and repetitiveness on the subject.

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-RNM

Hi Bill, Jacob,
Many of us really miss Stuart. Yes, the forum has suffered from his departure. I really hope some day he does return.

-Chris
Where did he go and why?

-RNM
 
SY is great except in one way he wasnt ---- every uttered thought, test, deed or comment was accompanied with did you do a DBLT? Only such test mattered to him as 'proof'. Really annoying in his insistence and repetitiveness on the subject.

So you require peeking so as not to make a "mistake". As far as I'm concerned sighted listening is random data of little or no value at all. Did you ever consider that sighted many folks would say the expensive choice was no better than the cheap one out of bias, I would think you would also demand DBT.

Where did he go and why?

The space here is virtual where has no meaning.
 
So to speak, when I was about 12 or 13 a friend claimed that you would weigh more than an extra pound by eating a pound of bread. I had filters for nonsense well established long before this. I have to admit I have known people that would never read a book or magazine that anyone else had touched, bought new shoes every two weeks, and never wore any underwear more than once (even checking in the store to make sure no one had touched it).

Ah, but contagion isn't always about bad things, if one reads on it can confer good things too.

The research on contagion is probably the best thing we have for understanding the human propensity to believe things such as that bit-identical files can be imbued with audibly different properties.
 
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I have to defend Dan's 'Goop' as doing something real, and perhaps very useful. It would not be the first offering of such a substance. Peter and May Belt offered something like it in previous years, and perhaps still do. I hold that 'if you hear a difference, it is most probably real'.

Well, since Dan has claimed -

Max Headroom said:
And then there is video, fitting a filter to TV power and/or signal cables improves picture in terms of colour clarity, contrast and apparent focus.

This is easily verifiable and basically impossible with an LCD or OLED TV. If this claim turns out to be false, which is highly likely if you know anything on how displays operate, why should we believe anything else he says?
 
Well, since Dan has claimed -
This is easily verifiable and basically impossible with an LCD or OLED TV. If this claim turns out to be false, which is highly likely if you know anything on how displays operate, why should we believe anything else he says?
It's not like I'm going to say "Oh, that one thing Dan said has turned out not to be true, now I have to change my whole world view!"
 
Anyone can make their own goop. All you need is ...
<snip materials>
Mix well and place it where it matters most.

Of course Max's exact formula is still a secret. But this will get you close.

REALLY!
Okay, so were does "it matter most" and is there a hypothesis, oh excuse me, a theory, of what it does that might help the sound of a hifi component?

I recognize one material as possibly being an "active ingredient." This might work like ... oh, I won't say, lest it give a "plausible" explanation to someone who might not otherwise have had one.
 
I also note that people with a more academic background are more used to robust debating over very small points and some may come across as belligerent and argumentative to those who have not had the pleasure. Pidgeons* and PhDs can look similar from a distance 🙂 . Not all but we have a few who post here.

*It's a valid spelling and my muscle memory is programmed for it.

And some of us have wizened to spending much time here at all. I rolled the rock up the hill only to watch it go back down one too many time. Also, academic arguments are only vigorous because they don't matter. Anything serious was settled and moved part immediately.

But there's no need to argue small points here anyways as there are more than enough patently absurd claims to run with.
 
I can name 3 different material applications for audio, that seem to work. First there was the Belt products, composed of cremes, etc, then Bybee, usually put into some framework like wood or plastic, and now, Max's 'Goop'.
I don't know specifically WHY these products seem to work, but I find that they usually do, for me at least. It doesn't matter WHY, as much as it matters what works when you use or apply these products.
 
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