Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
drmatt wrote: > Nice one Dave. Sounds like one for an episode of The Apprentice.. :) The hardest part was thinking of a fruit with a negative connotation - finally I got to "buying a lemon"... Dave :cool: Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
Golden Earring wrote: > > . > > "Every system needs an iLemon" :D > > Dave :cool: > > P.S. I quite often wear the t-shirt! Nice one Dave. Sounds like one for an episode of The Apprentice.. :) Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
drmatt wrote: > Personal insult escalation so quickly? I normally need at least five > messages to raise your blood pressure. You got up early to type this > rant. I think you are the only one confused about my position and my > observations. > > Long and short is that I'm not trying to "win" anything, it's really > only you doing that. > I've tried to discuss audio with some of the most subtle, polished, ignorant, abusive and truth-challenged golden ears around. My life has been threatened and there have been other forms of assault and harassment as well. Even my wife's gardening preferences have been attacked on an audio forum. I was accused repeatedly of abusing my late son's lifeless body. All in support of the kind of false beliefs that are espoused by some around here. I've pretty much seen it all. Who is attacking whom should become clear if your opening round of false accusations about my personal beliefs about audible differences is considered. A sincere person admits and apologizes for their errors. Seeing none of either... I suggest that you continue to deny your past misdeeds, as that strategy actually fools a few people who share your biases as our current U.S. President has put into practice nearly every time he speaks. ;-) arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
drmatt wrote: > Apple are a bit special aren't they. Or they were. Perhaps they need to > find a new industry to innovate in? It seems their approach to the ones > they are currently in is becoming quite stale. When my #2 daughter finished her psychology degree, she announced her intention to pursue a career in marketing. I took her out to lunch for a "brain-storming" session, having attempted to convey the notion that marketing was an industry dedicated to identifying ways to make people want to buy things that they don't actually need... I wasn't sufficiently persuasive to put her off (although she has now seen the error of her ways & switched to teaching), but it was a good lunch & we had a number of original ideas & I was subsequently presented with a transparent cylinder of plastic lemons & a bright yellow t-shirt bearing the outline of a lemon & the caption "I just bought an iLemon" & below (in rather smaller typeface) "We're Crackers but you'll still buy it!". The "iLemon" concept was to sell people an actual lemon, which is of course self-powered (small internal potential), & will accept any kind of connector shoved into its rind, although it doesn't actually DO anything. And after a week or so it goes mouldy & you'd then need to buy another one! We figured that with the right marketing campaign & the appropriate dealer support (at a 30% margin), an asking price of £50 seemed attainable with the potential of a global market, using locally-sourced lemons... "Every system needs an iLemon" :D Dave :cool: P.S. I quite often wear the t-shirt! Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
Personal insult escalation so quickly? I normally need at least five messages to raise your blood pressure. You got up early to type this rant. I think you are the only one confused about my position and my observations. Long and short is that I'm not trying to "win" anything, it's really only you doing that. Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
drmatt wrote: > This is barely luke warm, not heated. We are calm. Well, I am.. ;) > > You can fairly accuse me of giving an incomplete answer. No, I can fairly accuse you of obfuscation. The only question is whether it is intentional or not. Now "Dr Matt" you have further obfuscated by conflating the difficulty of supporting a simple little file compression utility with an entire media player or worse yet, a full fledged mainstream operating system. Here's some friendly advice. They are orders of magnitudes different. One is at best a part time position, one can take a small team, and one can demand the efforts of battalions of the best IT people that you can find. So it remains for the reader to figure out whether this happens because of abject ignorance related to the difference in complexity of simple little file compression utility with an entire media player or worse yet, a full fledged mainstream operating system; or a habitual liar who invents facts de jour in a vain attempt to win arguments on a internet forum and hides his malfeasance behind an alias. arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] HIGHRESAUDIO to stop offering MQA
This is barely luke warm, not heated. We are calm. Well, I am.. ;) I realised of course that android, osX, numerous zillions of infrastructure devices the world over are Linux based and therefore open source based. And yet, my Linux based smart TV won't play Ogg Vorbis files. Why is that? They didn't have the codec expertise in-house, so they didn't want to touch it. But they know they have to support proprietary Microsoft, Sony, and apple formats so they pick up the phone and buy the expertise in; but no-one has the breadth of imagination to simply install the libs that come with the base OS for free to support to the freebies. Apple are a bit special aren't they. Or they were. Perhaps they need to find a new industry to innovate in, their approach to the ones they are in is becoming quite stale. Transcoded from Matt's brain by Tapatalk -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums.. drmatt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59498 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107118 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
