Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-02 Thread adamdea
Soulkeeper;688030 Wrote: I'm growing tired of this troll. He's becoming more obnoxious every day. (And having him on my ignore list has a limited effect, as long as people keep responding to him.) Perhaps the audiophile forum could be divided into 3 subforums: a. fruitcake b. troll c

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-02 Thread Soulkeeper
I'm growing tired of this troll. He's becoming more obnoxious every day. (And having him on my ignore list has a limited effect, as long as people keep responding to him.) -- Soulkeeper 'Bug 17797: Updating wiki.slimdevices.com' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17797)

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-02 Thread mhaas
I think this thread should be deleted. The analogy is tasteless and offensive. -- mhaas mhaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40657 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-02 Thread chill
adamdea;688049 Wrote: Perhaps the audiophile forum could be divided into 3 subforums: a. fruitcake b. troll c other. ...and we get put in the appropriate one by majority voting of our peers! -- chill chill's

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-02 Thread ralphpnj
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[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread magiccarpetride
People claim that sighted tests are useless. I disagree. Here is why: Suppose a man, who is an eligible bachelor, gets presented with two young single women -- one drop dead gorgeous looking, another horrendously ugly looking. You probably won't have tough time guessing which of the two would

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread Phil Leigh
magiccarpetride;687918 Wrote: People claim that sighted tests are useless. I disagree. Here is why: Suppose a man, who is an eligible bachelor, gets presented with two young single women -- one drop dead gorgeous looking, another horrendously ugly looking. You probably won't have tough

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread darrenyeats
Blind doesn't refer to avoiding the visual sense. It's about evaluating things based on a limited set of criteria. For example, televisions can be blind tested by covering up all but the display panel so that the viewer doesn't know which unit is being viewed. This way, the only possible

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread magiccarpetride
Phil Leigh;687922 Wrote: Well duh! Obviously sighted tests are useful when you are choosing something based on a visual aesthetic. I'm afraid you may have misunderstood my extremely simplistic illustration. It is not that I intend to tightly couple 'sighted' with visual only. By sighted I

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread darrell
Pure troll, and not even remotely funny (function indeed!) -- darrell darrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13460 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93379

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread magiccarpetride
darrell;687941 Wrote: Pure troll, and not even remotely funny (function indeed!) You may be an audiophile redneck. -- magiccarpetride magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Sighted tests

2012-02-01 Thread Archimago
magiccarpetride;687936 Wrote: I'm afraid you may have misunderstood my extremely simplistic illustration. It is not that I intend to tightly couple 'sighted' with visual only. By sighted I mean being aware which of the two 'components' (in my example, one 'component' would be an extremely