Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ?

Just for fun, it takes me 15 seconds to have the answer to this question from GROK :

https://x.com/i/grok/share/x73moRLkvY6kwFlDGwXNKMqli

 Do you see the details it can give  referring even  to my opinions in another forum about the synergy of these pieces of gear and reference from others reviews ? It is astounding..

I am here to learn from "friends" in a human way...

 I can learn anything alone and i had done it for audio because we learn from our experiment not so much from others opinions...

But i cannot have  human discussion with a machine or a book...

 Some of those who complain about "old dudes" with nothing to do who come here   are young ignorants about life...

By the way to give my comment about GROK analysis to my question about the Sansui alpha specs and the AKG K340 hybrid:

Electrostatic Driver Demands: The K340’s electrostatic driver requires clean, high-voltage amplification. The AU-α607i’s balanced circuit should provide this, but a specialized headphone amp (e.g., tube OTL) might extract slightly better detail from the electrostatic driver.

With A.I. anybody can have all the specs numbers, recommendations and opinions summed up in one place...

 I just asked GROK  to explain to me how to use optimally the sextett K240 headphone with my new incoming dac with my headphone amplifier for my secondary system...( i already knew how and why but i was curious and GROK explained to me all the equations at play and why )

What no one will have just reading GROK  is the fun experiments we must do with acoustics... Ask GROK what it is then trust your ears and have the best fun of your life (Helmholtz resonators,absorption-diffusion-reflective devices balance,ASW/LV ratio parameters, comb filters,cross-feed,cross-talk use etc)

Or with unusual "tweaks"  which can improve low cost system...(Schumann generators,ionization,minerals use etc)

 i am here to talk with people  and i read and participate in the jazz and classical questions and other threads indirectly linked to audio, i even created some myself, not for just to gain mere information  for an upgrade i  may & must learn elsewhere anyway by myself... Those newcomers who search for a specific information can ask here but they must know that there is many people here who know each other for many years...

I learned how to do room/system installation  for myself with acoustics..

I advice people to read about acoustics before upgrading if their system is already synergical and minimally good...

Purchasing race is a plague ... Learning is a cure...

Another who  had chosen to insult me beginning in the discussion with Amir about "timbre" and acoustics perception few months ago..

He did not understood the arguments it seems and chose to insult me...

Since then times to times he do it on repeat...

 And i am the one supposed to be nut...

This is what i discussed with articles in science quotation when discussing with Amir and you begun to insult me as an idiot hurted by something you dont understand i must say :

This was the context of the discussion :

Do you understand how human brain can beat the  Gabor limit and create "meaning" in his own time domain ? if you do, you  then  can understand  why Amir evaluation of  "sound qualia" with gear specs only is deceptive use of technology...

You then insulted me in the midst of my discussion with him  with no arguments...

 Another occasion few days ago you insulted me surprised that i can tune by ears a mechanical device... It seems if someone is able to understand an acoustic concept and using his ears it appear as a " miracle" or a "lies"...

 Who is nut insulting others on repetition because they discussed ideas and concepts ?

I will let others be judge here ...

 And now you seems so nervously affected by cognitive decline  you suppose i need document or help  to remember logical arguments in acoustics or in other matters :

It’s possible that the nuthouse clown maintains word documents of his typed up crap.

 I argue with articles in science and arguments. I dont insult people Amir or anyone...

I can make a point with reason not insults...

 You had made no rational argument with me ever... Save insults like a child ...

I apologize for my english poor mastery...

But it is me who wrote...( i could use an A.I. easily and ask it to wrote all my posts  in Santayana prose though)

Thanks for your kind understanding of my handicap...

I never spoke English in all my life nor even wrote it before coming here.

I had read English in science and philosophy books, generally very poorly written with no concrete vocabulary...It is why my style is "square" to say the least...

Some philosopher though wrote a supreme beautiful English, as Santayana, whom i read once and lost even the thread of his reasonings because not only i was struggling behind his intelligence but i was in ecstasy reading his style...

I cannot wrote well...

I apologise...

One of the elephants in the room is that English isn’t @mahgister ’s native language. But that doesn’t stop me from finding value in some of his posts. Yes, some.

I remember all my conversation for example with Amir and some other engineer from ASR  about sounds and timbre..

I dont forget rational discussion...

I did not claim to be the arbiter of what is rational, i claim that i can remember any discussion i posted here with rational arguments which is more than one or two lines...

I dont entertain grudges and i am sorry if you entertain them...

 Anyway i will try to not bother you again...

 I am not perfect and i apologize sincerely if i  had caused you any discomfort of any kind...

Of course you choose not to remember. If I posted 13,000 times in nine years I could not remember either.

No sir, friends don’t act like that, and I am certainly not your friend. But fair enough, and thank you for your candor. And certainly, you, of all people, will never be the arbiter of what arguments are "rational."

You are certainly an idiot or a hating empty head for repeating this without end  even in threads were i developed complex arguments about sounds with quotes from serious science article, and you do this for more than a year, even sending me like this shit-post, insults or sarcasms in my private box...

Anybody can read you...No arguments...

And to add a cherry on your cake, you invite people to not welcoming someone only because he come from ASR forum...

No, your defect is you bore the crap out of everyone by posting diatribes of meaningless verbiage.

I dont remember that you ever harassed me at all. We discussed perhaps.

I remember only indesirable behaviour...

I dont entertain grudges then i forgot many thing useless, which imply that i cannot promise not to gave my opinion in your future threads and i invite you to agree or disagree in mine if you have rational arguments ... We are all "friends" here ...

If i caused you any disagreement be sure i am very sorry for that...

Apologies if it came off as gang stalking or harrassment. That was not the intent.

Perhaps we can agree that I will not post into threads that you start, or address you directly, and you will do the same. Problem solved, no bad feelings either way.

One of my defects is i like discussion...

mahgister, you asked for opinions in one of your threads and when I answered, and you did not like my answer, you just argued with me until I left the thread. Completely disingenuous.

If you are frustrated by my passion with arguments i apologize.

But i do not take rational opposition as insults... It is just i like to discuss...

By the way i never dismiss others opinion as such... I gave arguments for my points...

If you felt rejected because you did not had any arguments it is not my fault...

I dont recall this specific  discussion... I apologize for that too ...

By the way i always say what i think directly to the person and did not entertain grudges... But i must admit i react badly to gang-stalking or harassment toward anybody including me.

I did not name anyone because I did not want to embarrass anyone- however you just did a good job of embarrassing yourself. I find it amusing that you recognise yourself as making bloviated, meaningless, nonsensical posts.

it was easy to recognize myself in your stupid post, you harassed me saying the same thing for almost 2 years. Harassing me even in private mail.

 I would have not answered if you did not attacked in the most irrational way ASR  members coming here...

But it was too much for me to stay silent in this thread where we must insist on politeness for everyone...

ASR members or not, all are welcome, save those tailored as you, using sarcasms and insults, as a coward with insinuations,because unable to argue  directly  and rationally... ...

My avatar represent a great Russian artist...

Then your sarcasm only reflect your own ignorance and stupidity...

It is said that a picture does say a thousand words. 

There is dude, laoman,  also who send mail of insults and harassed me  in private mail...

He just wrote an hypocrital post above without the courage to name me...

If we analyse my post text information content with many referential articles versus the idiot sending insulting email in my private box the matter will be settled easily...

 Sorry but i defend myself  when someone attack  with falsities and even with just  insinuation ...

By the way i learned a lot when i discussed rationally with some ASR member here...But laoman is unable to learn from someone with whom he disagree it seems...

 I welcome everyone ... Amir included ... If they dont imitate laoman with harassment and no arguments save insults...

I am empathetic with everyone naturally, at least i try, i try to stay positive and nice but i like to discuss even uncomfortable truth sometimes, i admit this point,  in my own passionate way (as acoustics basics being the root of our hobby not purchasing upgrades) once this is said,

 i think as  Nassim Nicholas  Taleb, that :

«if you want to be at once rational and ethical, you must have the courage to accept that being nice to an ass...e is equivalent to being an ass...e to someone nice»

I think Taleb is right but we must begin by being nice ourselves to everybody, if not it will be impossible to distinguish between nice people and  not so nice one.

mapman said it well in one sentence :

There is no single solution that is best for all. 

This is true.None of us had the same goal, budget, gear, room, and wife...

But for example , acoustics science is the basis of audio, not the inevitable upgrades race and  it is not a debatable question...

Then i cannot go back on this point just to be nice...

 Once this is said i value the opinions of everyone here even if i disagree or even if will not take it in account for purchasing or to fine tune my system/room, i value others opinion as  different valuable human expressions which add something unique to aspects of society and humanity...

I read your thoughts an opinion here  since i am here i think...

Then even if we can disagree i cannot but consider you a "friend"  like some far off family member with which i can agree or disagree, it does not change the feeling relation. If we pay attention to each others for sure... 

Empathy is for our own understanding of life as hearings is for audio...Perception...

That is a beautiful thought, @mahgister.

i had learned from others here, but the reason i am here, being retired, is now because i appreciated each characters from which i read the posts...

my audio system is well and answer to my needs, i learned what to do to install it...

i came back because i am curious about all people opinions and life.,..

if i was 30, with a deep social life as i had with students, i will not be here, save for punctual audio needs of information...

I like people as much as i like music...

Everybody can help us here and many helped me in a direct and indirect way...( for the gear pieces or for advices or for musical inspiration or for discussing acoustics concepts even ASR members lost here  ;) )

The list i could give will be numerous names...

Only those who are not very open mind cannot learn anything from others here...

Not only that but many here gave me gifts and offers with complete generosity...

It is a great forum...

 I miss everyone, deceased, banned,gone, even those who were in total disagreement  with me as few ASR dudes(i learned a lot arguing with them )  everyone save the 2 idiots who had harassed me in my private mail here...

No name are needed..

Geoffkait was quite the character. 
 

Now, here we are….

+1 for poster with a positive set of mind when proposing his set of  critical rational arguments...

-1 for ad hominem attacks with no rational argument...

0 for herd like behaviour, one poster after the other mocking someone...

( A rational argument imply at least three part :

premises or supposition first, reason for the implicit or explicit premises  and conclusion.)

I suggest square root of - OR + one for sarcasm and good humor respectively..

 The Square root of + AND -negative one (hypercomplex number) for doubts about the value of a post...

 We can use the prime numbers to link all posts in a thread...

«Dont score your friends»-- Groucho Marx

Many.

If not i will not be here.

They all have a common point :

 They gave an opinion in good faith, never mock others for the pleasure to do it...

They never gangstalk people...They do not insinuate...

They are rational...Open mind...

They may have experience or not in audio...

I like them all ....

This why i came here for them...