darrenyeats wrote: > In my recent experience, this forum tends to be skeptics agreeing with > each other and mocking "backward" individuals. It's all far too > self-congratulatory and repetitive for my taste, which is why I'm not > here that often. > > I think you guys need to be challenged a bit. That's healthy. > > Nobody's going to change their mind about life based on words typed on a > forum. Remember this is about social contact ... even when there's a big > bust up, people just like interacting with other people! Try to leave a > bit of space for discussion by keeping your mind open a little. That's > how conversations are given room to develop. > > In 2054 maybe someone will discover something about audio which changes > the goal posts. Evidence-based reasoning isn't the same as turning out > to be right in the end.
it changes all the time and thats the point :) sometimes we get paradigm shifts , but audio is a very very mature science and we can easily make at least electronics thats transparent to us already and our biology evolves very slowly, speakers is another thing the limit here is usually interior design fashion and price but regardless they always make thier own sound so we have to choose. When fashion allows for large enough boxes we can make physics work for us instead of against us (The oposite of Bose acustimess ,horrible ) . And audio is only a subset of electronics in general , I do see paradigm shifts on the way how would a future microprocessor actually work for example , qbits optical who knows ?? but no one is handwiring silver transformers or similar . And electronics is a subset of physics which in turn is very well know on the day to day scale that concerns our daily activities . dont expect "dark matter" or new exotic particles to change audio ... If Ive i live 2054 ill be back to be proven wrong ! Btw dont get caught up in the product of the month in audio magazines and their illusion of constant progress .. things dont change that fast . I'm just a bit saddened that my fine hobby is slowly turned into the equivalent of what Astrology is to Astronomy there is a common ancestry but one of these have made astonishing progress while the other just is the same as it ever was . Pseudoscience cant make real progress as the methods are flawed you can discover things by luck and progress slowly but thats nothing compared to real progress . There are many real things to investigate , todays AV products are astonishingly complex and they have flaws here and there such things are seldom discovered , not many reviewers goes trough the paces to really scrutinize products . When the DVD was launched there was a revival when some reviewers stepped up to really investigate picture quality for example . And you can convince audiophiles to think different I was one of them . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux 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=102330
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