Ken Fritz article

I answer when someone attack me...😊

He answered to my critic of his way to apply his "psychiatric" science on a dead person by saying a falsehood and calling me "antivaxx"... Stupid people had no argument save falsehood...

I apologize to the OP and to all for being out of the thread matter...But i dont like when people condemn someone they dont even know because of an article and judge one the top scientist in the world, the first microbiologist in fact, as a fraud because they read it in a newspaper...

I can erase my post ... I will do it right now...

Done....😁

I will never judge someone i dont know with a list of symptoms from the Handbook of psychiatric disorder... ( psychiatry is a drug based practice then study psychology with Jung and astrology to balance its limited view at least )

I will never judge someone i did not know anyway...

What i know suggest an ordinary man with a great passion with all family problems many of us here goes through ...

I am appalled by the way some disparage a human being reading an article...

This say a lot ....Not about Fritz but about them....

Nothing of the sort... retired and with no more social contacts...

And with no money to play with new toys... Being unsatisfied by my gear system ( even if my choices were good to begin with) I had no choices only to go homemade and studying acoustics by experiments... You cannot tune 100 resonators by ears in one month... You cannot modify your speakers on the spot and you cannot adress vibrations and resonance with no money on the spot and buy as some costly Townshend platform... You cannot solve some electrical grid problem on the spot too ...

I was one year full time but few years many hours each week...

My luck was having no money to really invest in audio and to buy ready made solution and then if not learning nothing learning way less because purchase dont imply acoustic understanding ...

Now my system is ridiculously good for his price... Rest assured i own the best possible for this lowest cost ... It is my pride...😉😊 and rest assured i am not frustrated in a stopgap , but most people will not believe me on that...Most low cost system to begin with , are, if not horrible, not at all optimized ...Most people dont know what to do and anyway will not do it as modifying the speakers and the headphone design of what they just bought etc ...

Audio is about being creative and learning not about price tags at all ...

Which is better : my system under 1000 bucks rival more costlier system ... Mine is satisfying 😊i will make exception only for system in a designed acoustical room nothing else as Fritz or mike lavigne acoustically designed room ...

I am in this level what i call : the minimal acoustical satisfaction threshold with my speakers system... For the headphone system i am near the maximal acoustical satisfaction threshold anyway ( out of the head holographic perception and timbre realism and deep bass ) ... Cost : under 1000 bucks... Beat me ! and good luck ....

Every one has his own idea of acoustical perfection ; mine is the acoustical quality experience ratio related to the lowest possible price ...

I am the "Fritz" of what may appear to some as the garbage audio products...😁😊 But trust me my gear choice is not garbage at all especially after optimization ...

Most had no other way to improve what they have except buying... I improve it so much that i can live in ectasy with music...Yes this is possible, i am here to motivate those who cannot purchase anything costly... The fun is the creativity way more than buying....Fritz was creative ...I admire him for that...

@mahgister "I was myself consumed by the fever to create my acoustic room 24 hours by day for at least one full year..." Were you a cloistered monk or just certifiable?

i will judge more harshly those who judge others too harsley than the passion of this man...

I was myself consumed by the fever to create my acoustic room 24 hours by day for at least one full year...

My wife thought i was crazy...

Fritz taught us a lesson with his life and he succeedded his dream....

Our life impact go beyond ourself anyway , and most dont know why they are here ....

We are rooted in something greater than ourselves and we play a game we choose to learn... We cannot even condemn ourselves , we can just realize the road we take is the wrong one or not ...

Some said, even thinkers that we are not free in our choices...This is self contradictory claim; we are free to put a specific content in our thought and judge this content we created and choose it or not as from ourself or not at the end looking at this content accepting it or rejecting it ... Geometry teach freedom...This is why Plato love it so much...

We can stay a divided realm or unite ourself to greater than us because what is greater than us is also "us" ... Truth is there to be loved before to be known and cannot be known before being loved... Wisdom pass over our limited knowledge...

Fritz had learned and do his journey well as he planned it for himself and all of us... As a teaching ... as a work of love ... We can accept it or throw it off...We cannot judge him ...

As for each one of us  , his purpose in life was greater than himself..

It is very enlightening... Thanks to the OP ...

in a multiple ways...

For sound quality journey...

Any audiophile as i am must dream to hear his system ... I do ...

but it is a sad story because he succeed at the end of his life... And he paid a big price ... Price being said here in all its different meanings ...

i will not say that obsession is never a good thing...

So much discoveries in humankind comes from obsessed people from Archimedes to Tesla and beyond...

But obsessing about "sound" in this way is interesting case but i am not sure it is as you said a good thing, because perfectionism obsession is not the optimal attitude in this acoustic/ musical case ...

it is certainly not a road to take nor a person to imitate....

but as everybody i marvel at his room/system and i would love listening it... His family who paiy the real price are not so much interested by my curiosity...

Obsession is never a good thing.

Anyone who can sacrifice everything for just one goal remind us of what we must value over any goal...Even if so much perseverance and dedication can teach us something too ...

By the way i dont envy him a bit...

My low cost system satisfy me because as in the Fritz case i created it myself ... But at a low cost price without too much human cost... 😊

The tale of this guy’s life is one that many here should reckon with. While I am a bit obsessed with my stereo, it does not interfere with my family and I respect the value of the dollar too much to take my desires to a level that makes people uncomfortable. 10 foot speakers, IMHO, would be fitting for a listening room full of 10 foot tall people!! And don’t get me started on those identical grandfather clock sound dampeners!

Ken’s life is a sad story on how any focus on any one thing can lead to failure in all the other parts of life that have much greater value in life...reminds me of all the people who can’t put their phone down!! 😒