“You have to put the clock inside room. Just check that (brown) nuggets of wisdom written by geoffcait:”
Please spell my name correctly, geoffkait, otherwise I won’t be notified of your comment. 😬
Please spell my name correctly, geoffkait, otherwise I won’t be notified of your comment. 😬
You don’t understand how silly you are, don’t you?
‘Desperate attempts’ to close thread where you demonstrated to all how ignorant they are? Oh my, oh my.
How is posting a link that puts perspective on some nonsense said here an “attempt to close the thread”?? How? Explain please your conspiracy theory
I welcome more entertainment as entertainment is the reason I would not wont this thread closed.
It was not intentional. As for bad feeling, it’s purely subjective and can be altered with a bottle or two of fine beer. 😉
No, Mark offered a shallow analogy relating to preference for aesthetic appearance. All analogies fail at some point if picked apart.
@tombo56
Everyone sees this, you're doing it over and over and over again until you get your all result, right?
I hadn't pushed the issue related to your "friend" because I don't like to pile, but he didn't understand it.
And his ego did the rest.
And your ego as well.
You should just be ashamed of writing a post like the following
Silly are you, and most of all: calm down.
Everyone sees this, you're doing it over and over and over again until you get your all result, right?
I hadn't pushed the issue related to your "friend" because I don't like to pile, but he didn't understand it.
And his ego did the rest.
And your ego as well.
You should just be ashamed of writing a post like the following
Because this is a respectable place, not your personal sewer.
Silly are you, and most of all: calm down.
No, this is how it is seen just by you and some other members for sure. Threads are closed only for breaking forum rules.
I think that someone else should be ashamed for what is written at that link, certainly not me. It puts in perspective some claims here.
Anyway, my ignore list is updated. You should do as well. 😀
As the sign on the back of the big truck going up the narrow mountain road said, I may be slow but I’m ahead of you. 🙂
This is tiresome. That post was a discombobulated mess of irrelevancies, logical confusions, hand waving and strawmen of positions I never espoused. Learned decades ago getting sucked into this yields no benefits.
Welcome to my tiniest of ignore lists and all the best on your philosophic journey.
You seem to imply ASR’s reviews are less meaningful because he reviews things people (mostly Chinese manufacturers and supporters) send him.
Meanwhile, I don’t remember reading a negative review by Stereophile. Ever.
If you could link one here, I would be amazed.
So we are clear, what I am implying here is that Stereophile doesn’t burn any bridges. Ever.
On reflection all these scientifically irrelevant interjections of 'the absolute' might be a consequence of contemporary currents in education and academia, a flat rejection of objectivity as a goal in principle. In other words, generational. Scary if true.
Not what I said. Only described my understanding of how hard it is to get a review there. Maybe you are implying something about ASR reviews?
Maybe you never figured out how to read most magazine reviews? Like many publications, Stereophile tends to hide veiled warnings in the last couple of paragraphs of an article. That's where trade magazines often tend to give hints about what they really think. For example, they may say something like, "This product is one you might want to put on your short list to listen to and compare with brand Z and brand Y, then pick the one that best suits your needs." What it means you better listen to this thing before you buy it, don't buy it just because of this review!
OTOH, an example of a good review in another publication (not all their reviews are this positive):
"Spatially, the MC-1 is excellent, yet the uppermost frequencies are exceptionally well defined. Better than any of the others we’ve heard, and the softening effect that usually accompanies step up transformers is not here. An equally robust LF response is also at work with the MC-1. It feels more like a grain remover, without any lost musical detail in the process."
https://cartridgedude.com/project/quadratic-mc-1/
All the more likely to be true when independent reviewers say similar (IOW, one should carefully read multiple reviews):
"Does it go so far as to produce a totally immersive listening experience? Absolutely, it does. This is one of the few times when a third-party product with a variety of settings can actually handle and do justice to a wide variety of different cartridges and handle each with ease, poise and dexterity. Despite sometimes (deliberately, I might add) selecting horrendously wrong settings, although it was obvious things weren’t right there were no nasties. The upper reaches always remained clear. The bottom end had great weight, presence and deftness. In fact it is perhaps one of the most articulate SUTs I’ve had the privilege to audition."
https://the-ear.net/review-hardware/quadratic-mc-1-a-positive-step-up/
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Or these sort of threads attract a certain sort like flies to dung? the 20 somethings I know are all pretty objective except where getting the newest shiniest iphone is involved. The pendulum keeps swinging after all...
Is that a random sample of a population? Just saying IME its not necessarily that way everywhere. Maybe some reading material:
https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-Ame...ng+of+the+american+mind&qid=1697127818&sr=8-1
https://www.thecoddling.com/
...how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life.
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That is a random sampling but I think Rdf was looking at a random sampling of posters on this forum. My random sample is very skewed towards those educated with technical degrees or doctorates so I admit I cannot speak for the current educational levels of the average young human in Virginia. But I do keep faith that the youngsters just 'may' be more clued up than those of us more than half way through our 3 score years and 10.
Reviewers need to be very careful about posting negative reviews since they can destroy a small company. Plus it could be the reviewer’s fault, or the item could have been damaged in transit. A lotta times reviewers are careful to mix the good with the bad, reviews are sometimes a mixed bag, no? Negative results of a single test can be interpreted as having no value. If I’m not mistaken John Curl once got a bad review in Stereophile, but it was due to damage during transit, determined post facto if memory serves.
I got a bad review once in Stereophile, they didn’t even review the product. And the kicker is it wasn’t my product. 😲
I got a bad review once in Stereophile, they didn’t even review the product. And the kicker is it wasn’t my product. 😲
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Yup. Multiple non-blind trials.
That is the intent. Generational meant recently educated and not to engage in 'ok boomer' bun fights.
Please note that you were the first to post on this thread.
Just two minutes after its opening.
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