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Audiophilia - From skeptic to believer

JonnyFive said:
I'm sorry, I can't view Youtube at work. What are those videos about?

I was serious, by the way, with my question. I would like to know, ES, if you believe you could possibly train your vision to observe individual atoms.
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I only saw about 30 seconds of Part 1. It had that Blair Witch Project flashlight-in-face quality with incomprehensible mumbling.

I got scared and turned it off.
 
calebprime said:
I only saw about 30 seconds of Part 1. It had that Blair Witch Project flashlight-in-face quality with incomprehensible mumbling.

I got scared and turned it off.
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You have never been in the service then, he is the kind that would wake up in the morning in bed outside the barracks.

Paul

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ExtremeSkeptic said:
The 2nd biggest improvement I have heard was modifying the Nordost Valhalla cables thinner. More low-level detail and resolution opened up. Smooth sounds turned into tiny transients.
All round conductors change the signal, that's why there are so many cable manufacturers with different sounding cables. Nordost is supposed to have the most detailed cables, but even more detail is possible when modifying them.
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You know whats really pathetic is Im doing a problem called a distortionless cable which is irrelevant of shape. The only parameters that matter is that R'C'=L'G'. I almost want to guess you have no clue what the characteristic impedance of a cable is because putzing around with the dimensions of the cable is going to introduce wave reflections.
It's not hard to figure out who are the liars in this forum. They not only lie to themselves, they lie to everyone else who want to know the truth. How many times have you read a skeptic say "It doesn't make a difference".
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My textbook says your a liar.:)
 
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The best thing would be technoextreme, to tell us, not him, why he is a liar.

Paul

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Paulhoff said:
The best thing would be technoextreme, to tell us, not him, why he is a liar.

Paul

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Technically I did. A distortionless transmission line is where the following relation is satisfied R'C'=L'G'. I'll show you later because I need to get this homework done and I haven't quite got the algebra to get the equations correct.
 
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I read page 1 and page 10 of this, I don't really have time to read the rest.

90% of the time, I'm satisfied with a $100 MP3 player and $20 headphones. The other 10% of the time, I'm still satisfied with a $100 MP3 player and $20 headphones. I'm in the (slow) process of moving hundreds of pounds of vinyl to lightweight portable MP3. Yeah, it's lossy, big deal. I don't find that I lose anything I actually miss, the music and (where appropriate) lyrics still come through just fine.
 
But saving some of these works for me. Or the Monty P. "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" 3 sided record which really wouldn't work the same on a CD.
 

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Jeff Corey said:
But saving some of these works for me. Or the Monty P. "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" 3 sided record which really wouldn't work the same on a CD.
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You can still get all the tracks, without scratching the hell out of the first track of sides 2 and 3 trying to set the needle down in just the right place to get track 3 to play.

I guess "Sorry, squire, I scratched the record" doesn't ring as true...
 
Some of those who insist on repeatedly trying to logically respond to that which is repeatedly nonsensical really need to stop and think about what they are doing.

It's like you're in the psych ward at the loony bin arguing with a crazy person in the hallway. At the same time telling every person that walks by about how crazy this person you're arguing with is (even though most are doctors, nurses, and other staff; already quite aware of the problem).

If you don't have anything of value to add that hasn't already been said why make every forum a psychological and/or language debate. Let's not forget the sideshow mentality.

Responding shouldn't take much more than say; Yes power supply requirements go up in accordance with sound quality/volume required. No the cords don't have much to do with this (though extremely cheap cords can be more likely to degenerate/malfunction). There are any number of things in an audio system that can have EQ and sound quality effects.

Questions with a high percentage of nonsense should be given a concise answer followed by a quick good day! Those who do insist on some pointed follow up questioning shouldn't act surprised when the answers logically return containing a high percentage of more nonsense. They also shouldn't be oblivious to how they just played a key part in networking more nonsense. Not so ironic that with nonsense you get increasing returns.

This isn't to say there are people that are 'beyond help', just that there is a time and place. Also, to address that this IS a skeptic forum after all, there are a number of topics in these forums I could have posted nearly this exact same post in yet won't (what does HD mean to you?). So, though they are a relative minority of all the topics in total, it is a bit telling that you can find most of them by the number of pages the topic contains (see last sentence, previous paragraph).

A good question for the forum would be: How would you respond differently to someone who is clinical than someone who is garnering attention (trying to make a buck or perhaps just trolling). Not to try and sway opinions, but I think you'd find the proper response to both being concise statements of fact with no expectations of being acknowledged logically (does then the source of the nonsense not become a moot point?). From that point on, unless the nonsense makes the unlikely turn into sense, only the propagation of the nonsense is at hand.
 
OTT: I think it is just the irresistible urge to throw the odd pepple at the village idiot.

Combined, of course, with the urge to show off how much WE know about the subject; such a display being the brighter, the darker the background is.

We're only human, after all.

Hans
 
OnlyTellsTruths said:
If you don't have anything of value to add that hasn't already been said why make every forum a psychological and/or language debate. Let's not forget the sideshow mentality.
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how is your post any different? there is nothing of substance in your directionless diatribe.

Responding shouldn't take much more than say; Yes power supply requirements go up in accordance with sound quality/volume required. No the cords don't have much to do with this (though extremely cheap cords can be more likely to degenerate/malfunction). There are any number of things in an audio system that can have EQ and sound quality effects.
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most properly designed equipment is transparent. if you studied physics or engineering, you'd know that.

Questions with a high percentage of nonsense should be given a concise answer followed by a quick good day!
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unit, corps, God, country. i don't see your name anywhere in that list.

Those who do insist on some pointed follow up questioning shouldn't act surprised when the answers logically return containing a high percentage of more nonsense. They also shouldn't be oblivious to how they just played a key part in networking more nonsense.
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yes, nonsense like your post.
 
Responding shouldn't take much more than say; Yes power supply requirements go up in accordance with sound quality/volume required. No the cords don't have much to do with this (though extremely cheap cords can be more likely to degenerate/malfunction). There are any number of things in an audio system that can have EQ and sound quality effects.
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That's wrong. Audio cables do have an important effect on how the music sounds. It's the influence of electromagnetics and audio cables fall under transmission line theory. If a wire is considered a transmission line you can no longer use traditional circuit theory of assuming that the voltage of a wire is constant. The voltage changes in respect to the position of a wire. [Heaviside condition to be continued]
 
technoextreme said:
That's wrong. Audio cables do have an important effect on how the music sounds. It's the influence of electromagnetics and audio cables fall under transmission line theory. If a wire is considered a transmission line you can no longer use traditional circuit theory of assuming that the voltage of a wire is constant. The voltage changes in respect to the position of a wire. [Heaviside condition to be continued]
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No

Paul

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