opaqueice;176257 Wrote:
No offense intended, but I couldn't disagree with you more. A huge
proportion of high-end audio products are total garbage, at least
from a price/performance point of view. It's true a $15,000 wire will
conduct electricity, but so will a 10 cent wire, and so by any
A Bentley is far more expensive than my Mazda 6. If I had the money to
buy a Bentley, I probably would. Of course, I don't have the money, so
I'll call Bentley owners idiots, say they're wasting their money, and
proclaim that my Mazda 6 is all the car one needs.
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Ron Olsen;176009 Wrote:
And some more words of wisdom about what's important in sound quality:
http://www.biline.ca/critic1.htm
This way of looking at everything in black and white (good guys vs. bad
guys) is indicative of some kind of condition. Perhaps AS, which, of
course, has a large
But surely all of us that hang out on this and other similar fora are by
definition displaying AS tendencies?
It would certainly explain some of the exchanges here...
Ceejay
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Well, at least, in typical American fashion, it will give us something
else but ourselves to blame for our behaviour.
I like this one too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_virus
ceejay;176086 Wrote:
But surely all of us that hang out on this and other similar fora are by
definition
jmourik;176106 Wrote:
Well, at least, in typical American fashion, it will give us something
else but ourselves to blame for our behaviour.
I like this one too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_virus
Slim Devices Rules! Everybody else drools!!!
jan
Well, recent research points to
jmourik;176106 Wrote:
Well, at least, in typical American fashion, it will give us something
else but ourselves to blame for our behaviour.
I like this one too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_virus
Interesting idea... way OT, but there's a principle (maybe that's too
strong a word)
jmourik;176106 Wrote:
Well, at least, in typical American fashion, it will give us something
else but ourselves to blame for our behaviour.
I like this one too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_virus
Slim Devices Rules! Everybody else drools!!!
jan
jan,
you should amend American
tomjtx;176131 Wrote:
jan,
you should amend American to Republican fashion.
We Democrats blame ourselves for everything :-)
What's your proof that Democrats blame themselves for everything?
Have you not read the news everyday? Democrats only blame others for
everything.
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FatElvis2000;175079 Wrote:
I've searched their archives for equipment I'm interested in, and they
love everything. Maybe help point me to some of the negative
reviews...
What's with your need for negativity?
Does this prove something?
Stereophile reviews about 6-10 products a month and
mauidj;176222 Wrote:
Stereophile reviews about 6-10 products a month and obviously would
rather review good stuff than bad.
So when asking for review samples they obviously pick products that
they alreay believe will be good ones.
Why would they do otherwise.
Why would they do
opaqueice;176229 Wrote:
Why would they do otherwise? Because it would actually make the
magazine useful for something.
When you're in the market for a new product, it's obviously very useful
to have objective comparisons between products. Consumer reports, for
example, is good for
Where are all you guys coming up with this 100% positive review stat?
It just is not true.
You are all asking for factual statements from this magazine yet you
detractors cannot prove your own facts.
Bit ironic don't you think!
Hmm - in your previous posting you seemed to agree their
opaqueice;176229 Wrote:
Why would they do otherwise? Because it would actually make the
magazine useful for something.
When you're in the market for a new product, it's obviously very useful
to have objective comparisons between products. Consumer reports, for
example, is good for
adamslim;176250 Wrote:
I think there's actually very little stuff that's genuinely bad. Why
would a manufacturer make it? Why would a dealer sell it? All there
is is stuff that I like and stuff that doesn't really do it for me.
Since you might like different things, it probably balances
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are
the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about
that.
- Richard Feynman
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SB3-Rotel RB890-BW Matrix 805
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Eric Carroll;176261 Wrote:
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are
the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about
that.
- Richard Feynman
Eric,
great quote, if everyone followed that advice we would put a lot of the
snake oil salesmen out of
tomjtx;176131 Wrote:
jan,
you should amend American to Republican fashion.
We Democrats blame ourselves for everything :-)
Ha, that was funny :-)
opaqueice Wrote:
any condition that even slightly reduces your chance of having children
(including anything that increases your risk of
jmourik;176324 Wrote:
Like opaqueice, when I'm looking into some component to buy, like right
now a DAC, I want to see reviews that tell me something. If I look for
reviews on the Benchmark DAC1, they all say it's a very good DAC. Until
Lavry shows up, then I read Lavry is better. Can't the
P Floding;176327 Wrote:
They are all (mostly) good. The problem is that hacks have to write
something.. ;-)Yup, and people like me like to read it! I now have
subscriptions to TAS
and Stereophile. Why? Because I enjoy reading them and subscriptions are
cheap! I bought Stereophile last
And some more words of wisdom about what's important in sound quality:
http://www.biline.ca/critic1.htm
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Ron Olsen
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Ron,
www.biline.ca was the guy that arranged for many of the Audio Critic
back issues to be posted on the web zine. Your URL is essentially a
reprint of a backissue prior to the backissues going up.
If you liked that article, check out many more like it at
www.theaudiocritic.com/cwo/Back_Issues
Thanks for the link, Eric. Lots of interesting stuff in these back
issues that resonates with my own sense of what's important and what's
not.
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