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Article #242Re: What's all this gum-beating about "tests"?
From: Arny Krueger
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:09
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:09
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"Fella" <nosp@m.here> wrote in message news:RbuBe.4729$MB7.1343@reader1.news.jippii.net > Arny Krueger wrote: >> Good question. People like Pinkerton and I tell people that >> CD players tend to sound very much alike. > You impose your misconceptions upon people, Fella, you make it sound like Pinkerton and I have some supernatural control over readers. Reading our posts is a free choice. Our posts unlike yours Fella, are headed up with our correct legal names. If people don't want to be influenced by us, they have free control over their thoughts and minds. > you try to rob them of their freedom of choice and preference, Fella, how do we rob people of their freedom via Usenet? It appears that you are trying to rob us of our rights to free speech by telling lies about us. > you try to rob them of their potential audio enjoyment. Which audio enjoyment is that, Fella. Is it the enjoyment of being duped into buying overpriced audio gear by nameless aliases such as yourself who take advantage of the untracable nature of Usenet to make elaborate claims about expensive equipment that you show evidence of never having even seen a proper picture of? > It's almost criminal. Quit hyperventillating, Fella or whatever your real legal name is. > There is almost a touch of evil > in ferstlers cynicism of "everything sounds the same you dumb > tweakos" attitude, for instance. Thanks Fella for showing that you can't distinguish between what Ferstler actually says which is that some things sound the same and what you make up for him to say, which is that everything sound the same. > What's more, you people seem to be going after the high-end industry. So what is the High End industry, a sacred cow? > You'd be happy if they all just buckled up and > whithered away into bankruptcy. If you haven't noticed Fella, most of us live in more-or-less free competitive capitalist societies. Nobody deserves a big chunk of people's cash just because they are high end audio dealers or manufacturers. > I don't want my kids to have > to listen to music from wicked sounding metallic assembly line > crap gear produced with only cost-effectiveness in mind and > nothing else. Fella, you make it sound like we put a freeze on your bank accounts and are stopping you from wasting your money. >> Therefore they >> should make their CD player choices based other factors that >> are more important to them. > Thus you mislead them. What is misleading about suggesting to people that they should base their choices on real differences that matter to them? >> Unfortunately we've got the technologically backward >> nay-sayers like Fella, who want people to believe that their >> are mind-boggling audible differences between CD players, >> amplifiers and everything else. > I wouldn't go so far as to say "mind-boggling" Perhaps, not with the rest of us watching. >.. When or if a > piece of equipment introduces mind-boggling huge differences > to the music, it is IMHO, somewhat "improper". Now you're splitting hairs Fella. Look at the elaborate overblown claims you made about that BAT integrated amp whose basic properties you didn't even know until I pointed them out to you a few days ago. >It almost leads >> They're the guys who are >> peddling tests - in their case sighted, non-level-matched, >> non-time-synched listening tests. > You are the one peddling tests. That's just a lame come-back. Try something original next time, Fella. > I just merely say that the tests you meddle do not work, since they kill off existing > subtle differences, what with the setup and the actual act of being subjected to > them. I just resist. I trust what I hear. No Fella, you trust uncontrolled level differences, auditions where the identical same music is not played over both pieces of equipment, and equipment being in full sight; so that your prejudices and biases can control your choices. >> in their case people should buy >> this amplifier and test it at home, > You do not need to buy something to test it at home. That may be true if you are your local hifi dealers favorite sucker. >I never said that people should constantly buy amps and switch them > around. Well Fella you rant and rave against us for saying that is a bad idea. >You have trouble enough trying to express yourself, > don't try it on my behalf also. That's just another lame come-back. Try to say something original next time, Fella. >> Agreed, what that kind of test procedure there's no >> level-matching and there's no time-synching so of course >> everything will sound different, which is what Art and Fella >> keep pushing. > This is another example of your bullshit arny. There has been > many instances where with sighted auditioning a given piece of > equipment sounded almost identical to the piece it was > supposed to better. Fella I note that you aren't addressing the fact that by criticizing us for wanting levels to be matched, you are promoting tests with mismatched levels. I note that you aren't addressing the fact that by criticizing us for wanting the music being matched, you are promoting tests with mismatched music. I note that you aren't addressing the fact that by criticizing us for sighted bias to be controlled, you are promoting tests that are dominated by sighted bias. >> Since when are you an expert about testing, Middius? > Compared to you my dog is an expert-shlexpert on testing. And > just think, I don't even have a dog. :) That's just yet another insulting lame come-back. Try something original and clever next time, Fella.
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