arnyk wrote: > Wow, jkeny has empowered himself to speak for the 100's if not 1000's of > people who post on this forum! > > Amazing! > > > > What you jkeny and others around here don't get is that once one > obtains a certain critical mass of knowledge and experience and has the > mental power to put it together correctly, one achieves a certain level > of clarity. > > I've had the privilege of knowing personally over a period of many years > some of the great modern minds of audio, people like David Clark, Earl > Geddes, and James Johnston. In their areas of expertise they have > achieved a relatively high level of clarity. > > One of the consequences of well-informed and well-experienced clarity in > a certain area is that many things that are confusing to others are > unbelievably clear to them. This clarity enables the execution of > wonderful acts of diagnosis and invention. For example James Johnston > was an important member of the two different but overlapping small > groups of people who invented first MP3, and then AAC encoding. Earl > Geddes holds fundamental patents he was the sole developer of related to > speakers that, while they will probably be mostly broken before they are > widely used, nevertheless his scientific papers and patents have enabled > a lot of effective development in that area. > > People who have this clarity can leap over confusion and make things > that were once confusing to all, clear to themselves and others. > > One of the consequences of such limited clarity as I have been able to > obtain in certain narrow areas, is that in those areas and in some cases > I have sufficient clarity about certain audio components such as DACs > and amplifiers that I know what they are and what they can do in terms > of practical use and subjective experience. This clarity allows me to > study things, test things, and realize certain things about them that > turn out to be true and helpful in somewhat widespread use and in the > long run. > > It was that kind of clarity that enabled me to develop ABX from what it > was in 1950 to where I took it back in the middle-late 1970s. It was > that clarity that enabled me to do what I did back in Y2K to popularize > what I called PCABX which we now see implemented in wonderful tools like > FB2K/ABX. Everybody who does anything of value stands on the shoulder of > others. > > It is often clarity that enables people to see audio placeboes for what > they are. It clarity about certain things that is why I and certain > others say that knowing the technology that we know we can not ethically > be involved with certain audio products. > > It is probably that clarity that you call Motivations, but if you > understand clarity you realize that while clarity can be motivation it > is not really the kind of negative thing that you make it out to be. It > is power to do good. It is the power to act positively. It is the power > to speak directly. > > It probably takes a certain amount of clarity to understand higher > levels of clarity. > > I wish you could have a little clarity, jkeny. I really do. No matter > how you may wish to pretend that you have clarity, well IME not so much. > It is that lack of clarity about certain critical areas of audio that > explains the muddle of deflections, gross technical errors and libels > that you have imposed on this forum just lately.
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