What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen.
I was flipping through the accessory pages at the Cable Company and came up with this https://www.thecableco.com/hallograph.html You have to be kidding me. Of all the dumb, idiotic, profoundly stupid things I have ever seen. The marketing is even better! Have you seen anything worse! It is up to us to uncover these things for what they are, SCAMS.
@mahgister, I am not disagreeing with your statements. Based on the current political situation I would estimate that at least 50% of the population is highly suggestible. But, on what basis are you making these statements, as a matter of experience and opinion or do you have a degree in sociology or psychology? Stop apologizing, your posts are always....lenghty. We are use to it. Social Darwinism is a travesty, the evolution of a species is not.
Apparently experiments from the first part of the last century have shown that some 20% of the population are highly suggestible.
This is an underestimation...
Most human more than half, are very suggestible, it is a characteristic of human being..Socialization of the entity in the herd ask for that...(for sure my estimation is anecdotal)
Hypnosis is not all there is about suggestibility and the way to assess it....Political gatherings illustrate very much the way the herd mentality, with his target scapegoats, the mass suggestibility are the rule...
Funnily enough there also seems to some 20% of folk who are not suggestible and unlikely to change their minds in any eventuality
And this phenomenon of a mind closed to suggestion and appearing unmoveable is also an illusion.... People in a cult, scientific one or religious one, are unmoveable and apparently non suggestible anymore...They seems non suggestible but it is an illusion that is created after a deep conditioning of their brain in the past....Often being the most conditioned they neede a deprogramming but they cannot be awaken without risk like the sleepwalkers....
Of course I’d like to see myself as someone that’s not so suggestible and only prepared to rely upon reason and data
Relying on reason and data is way more difficult than people think generally...
What is a data? What is reason?
When Goethe contradicted the metaphysical corpuscular and mathematical theory of colors and light of Newton , he was relying on concrete phenomena and reason... Newton has his own nore ambitious goal tough: a complete optic theory...Except Newton theory was abstract and not founded in the biological and natural phenemonomogy and physiology of the experience... Newton and Goethe were rational and the 2 vouch for datas....Goethe was without the mathematical conditioning of Newton... He foundeed the physiology of perception and another perspective about what is science...He was the Faraday of life phenomenon, but the Maxwell of biology never emerge after him, we gain Darwin a genius in his own way... it is only today that Goethe is vindicated after the death of some aspects of the Darwinian paradigm..... 😊
In audio like you, i was not rational at all.... I only wanted my Hi-Fi experience at all cost.... But without money... 😁 This is not rational, this is an obsessive dream...
I succeeded with a 500 bucks audio system to create a S.Q. on par or better than all i have known to this day....It is not the best, but so good that i dont give a damn about the best anymore...
I discovered in the last years of my audio journey that audiophiles are very suggestible group , not because they are insensitive to science facts like said the "scientism" of some engineer, but because they think that Hi-Fi experience is linked to PRICE and HYPE....
But the suggestibility of mass consumerism put blinders on the thinking brain, they chase their tail instead of learning HOW to listen not only music but sound and HOW to embed what they already own... Not knowing how to install their own system in his 3 working dimensions, they are frustrated and go on upgrading forever...
The engineer who create the design sells and market them like a perfect gear that we only have to connect to reach paradise... 😁
I know for sure that all that is half truth worst than a lie....Without embedding controls in their mechanical,electrical and acoustical dimensions, any Hi-Fi product work way under his S.Q. potential, unbeknownst to the customers who will wanted to upgrade sooner than later....
It is not data or reason that give me this experience and belief.... It was poverty and the impossibility to upgrade much....
My only 2 ressources was my listening ears and creativity.... Here creativity was better than reason and superior to it, and my listening ears way better than the so called given "data"....
My best to you and thanks for your patience with my lenghty post....
"But dont forget that all ordinary humans are mostly trustful...."
Apparently experiments from the first part of the last century have shown that some 20% of the population are highly suggestible.
These are the kind of folk a hypnotist will usually seek out to join them on stage for the entertainment of everyone else.
More disturbingly it seems to also indicate that at least 1 in 5 of us is constantly ready and willing to believe virtually anything we are told.
Especially when it's by a person with some conferred authority.
Funnily enough there also seems to some 20% of folk who are not suggestible and unlikely to change their minds in any eventuality. I'm sure most of us have known the odd family member that was like that.
Of course I'd like to see myself as someone that's not so suggestible and only prepared to rely upon reason and data (ie in the middle group of 60%) but I know I'm not.
Not when it comes to audio (and certainly not when it comes to judging people but that's another story).
I've had my fair share of cognitive dissonance when it came to purchasing various bits and bobs over the years.
Every CD player that I bought was progressively more expensive and more worshipped by the audio press than its predecessor, and yet for some reason my mind recently has been going back to that cheap machine my friend borrowed me back in the late 90s when I was in-between decks.
I've WhatsApped him to see if he still has it - he might have as he's a bit of a hoarder.
If so I'd love to hear it again and compare it to my current player (Marantz CD6000ki) just to see how the two compare.
Everything tells me that the Marantz simply must be better and yet....I still remember, some 20 years later, of having being pleasantly surprised every time I'd put that machine on.
I seem to think it was an Aiwa (I hardly paid any attention to it at the time as I was then in the search for something far far better - or so I thought) but hopefully my friend will be able to find it and confirm it.
Used breast implants from Chesty Morgan under my Amp. Noticed an increase in firmness, solidity, soundstage height and width. However, there was a noticeable decrease in naturalness. 🥸
Being totally pedantic, the emissivity of polished aluminum is quite a bit different from rough aluminum. That could make for some minor differences in cooking :-)
I recently read an interview, basically a statement/explanation, by a director of a tin foil manufacturing company. He said that sides are different because of the process that involves rolling. Apparently, neither side is the "right" one. Both are equal and difference in appearance is due to that rolling. I cannot elaborate as I do not remember the details.
This joke will not give you I.Q. point sorry.... if you need them for sure.... I presume wth this "joke" that you effectively need them....Next time then ....
By the way, being intelligent, i discovered some use for aluminium paper in my room but not on any head....
But dont forget that all ordinary humans are mostly trustful....
It is only an era where the scum can pilot humanity without the need to hide himself...Then the liars are visible all over the place.... But they dont outnumbered the vast decent majority invisible to any spotlight....
My experience with people is most are trustful....Here for example in these forums, most are trustful.....
You and I and many others that contribute to this forum might try to be honest as we can be, but it isn't the way of this world.
The truth in 2021 is now probably only reserved for those interactions between between friends and loved ones.
Certainly seems that no one in the big outside world is too concerned with telling the truth.
Certainly not the tyrannical banks, the litigious lawyers, those puppet politicians, the censorious educational establishment, the apparatchiks in the mainstream media, the farcically propagandist fact checkers, those ravishingly data stealing carnivorous tech giants, the fear-spreading pill-dishing big pharma, and obviously not even your friendly neighborhood hi-fi reviewer.
The likes of the late Peter Aczel are few and far between, alas.
Any that still remain (Penn Jillette, Derren Brown, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning etc etc) risk being banished and sent to distant concentration camps and gulags to be found on the outer reaches of the cyber universe.
Places where they might find themselves in the company of criminals and the seriously deluded.
Exiled to virtual penal colonies.
"If you go to bed with another woman you will be in the obligation to lie, not because you are a liar, because there is no other way.... Simple..."
Unless you are very lucky and have a very understanding partner..
It's a little risky, but I think personal honesty (ok maybe not quite the confessional Russell Brand type of antics - not everyone is ready for that) can lead to closer more substantial relationships.
Only to gives a personal anecdote that has some meaning attached to it... Perhaps do you know Vernadsky? It is no more an anecdote in my post.... One of the greatest Russian scientist...
For the study of cooperation of organisms in the long run we had plenty of studies; these facts dont eliminate struggle for life, and in human society the battle of all against all, but that relativize the phenomenon pointing to a more deep fact in the long run: cooperation...
Than in human society trust is the ONLY money, thinking otherwise is limited brain power or the results of past traumas or the two....Pick your choices...
History go to the " utopia" of self destruction or the opposite , there is no mid-way between these 2... Why? Because it is cooperation or death.... Simple ....Earth cannot manage 8 billions liars...
Humans will lie unless it is their own best interest not to.
You just say a few second ago that anecdote dont constitue a study.... And my anecdote has 12,000 anecdotes like yours...There are story and story... It is like your opinion of a "tweak" and many consumers satisfied opinions, there is a DIFFERENCE in the weight of anecdotes... Doctor must know this day by day...It is called a prognostic...
Anyway you are old enough to understand that those who always lies like your cop are those and the same who put themselves in the conditions where lying is a life style...
Average people dont lie at this scale and dont place themselves in the conditions where lies will be necessary and a life style...
If you go to bed with another woman you will be in the obligation to lie, not because you are a liar, because there is no other way.... Simple...
«Thinking is not only addition, it is division too, and few other things»-Groucho Marx
Mahgister, an anecdote dose not a study make. My wife has a lot of trouble with the truth. She white lies all over the place. She is so prolific at it that I have a hard time telling if she means it or not (compliments). I have no trouble believing her when she has something derogatory to say. @glupson, can I share the ride? I got pulled over speeding a couple of years ago. The cop wrote me up for reckless driving which in New Hampshire is driving to endanger others or going over 100 mph. I was doing neither. Since reckless driving takes it to a much more serious level I took him to court. He floridly lie about the conditions of the stop. My mouth must have dropped three feet. My lawyer drilled him a new a-- h--- and I won the case. He was a known bad actor in town. He now resides in Alaska. Humans will lie unless it is their own best interest not to.
My wife expedited 12 thousand parcels in the world when she was working for a 10 years period... Guess with how many dishonest people she deals with?
A few....
For sure what she was selling was not the first and most attracting objects for the sociopaths, psychopaths or average idiots...
Friends from Wall Street are not friends from philosophers circle or from honest small business workers....
We generally chose our hell or paradise, and our friends, except if we live unluckily at some bad moment of history and at the wong place with the wrong people... But there is for sure many new bad places at this precise moment of history now... Alas!
Humanity and life strive more and better because of cooperation anyway than rivalry...
We know now that the life on earth organism form a family, not mainly a bunch of individuals in struggle... We learned from Darwin and Vernadsky ...Not from some bad Darwinist....
@gmercer - your observations about the
"audiophile" Ethernet
switch highlights my issue with "audiophile" tweaks in general....
the
high'ish prices often seem more aligned with the hype than the actual benefit resulting from products that most non-audiophiles would view as rather ordinary.
I recently stumbled on the Audio Science Review website where they measure and review a variety of audio gear. In the case of two "audiophile" Ethernet switches they reviewed, they did not find any measured or discernable sonic differences between those two "audiophile" switches and the Netgear smart Gigabit switch they had on hand. One of the "audiophile" switches became so hot the author "started to smell what resembled like overheating electronics" and measured a case temperature of over 100 degrees F!
Most reviewers are like average audio consumers, they are mot dishonest, they dont know better way to improve than a costly upgrade... No review advocate rightfull controls installation over upgrade....Ignorance with blinders is not dishonesty....
'The reviewers have become a big part of the problem!'
Yes, we're certainly seeing a lot of this impartial pushing from reviewers.
Nauseating sycophantic creeps like Darko have totally renounced any interest in further debate.
They're on the back foot having been exposed as keyboard shills and hence all of this 'let the listener decide' rhetoric that had previously slipped their jaundiced minds.
A small suggestion?
How about a little balance, and a little more honesty?
Let Kelvin from Stereo X review illustrate a good way of keeping it real. Praise and criticism, criticism and praise.
an Ethernet switcher... The reviewers have become a big part of the problem! That this guy spends the first half of the article mounting a defense for his forthcoming position... says plenty
Sorry about the mistakes. I was using my medical Dragon Dictate then had to get to a patient and prematurely hit the post button. Change "permanent" to primitive. Change "goes across" to those. Some of the mistakes are strange. I run music in the background and I think it must confuse it. I'll have to turn the volume down more.
That must have been the kiddie tour :-). On one of our tours, they turned all the lights off for about 5 minutes so people could feel the absolute dark. Maybe it was less. I can't remember if that was the full day underground tour, or a different one. Was quite a while ago.
@theaudiotweak, Very true Tom. But, you are in a strange environment and a very large mysterious one not in your own living room. You don't get scared when you turn the lights out in your bedroom. It is a more primitive instinct more likely to be manifest in children. My favorite instinct fighting situation is being in an MRI scanner. Even if you are not technically claustrophobic you get uncomfortable. We instinctively do not like being in tight places we can't easily get out of. I have many patients I have to tranquilize to get a scan done. I have one that will never have an MRI without being totally knocked out. Why do we all have these instincts? Simple we were better at staying alive and having children. The ones without this instinct were more likely to get killed prematurely. Many of these instinct got started long before Homo Sapiens was around. They were passed down to us. The survival instinct is a good example. Now. what about the instinct to buy silly audio tweaks that do nothing but subsidize someone's income. It is obvious that this instinct does not occur in all humans. Since nowadays survival equals money goes across without this instinct will out survive the ones that have. So, over 1,000,000 years this instinct will extinguish. Looking back on it people will think that the tweak buyers are permanent. Just an extension of the idea:-)
There are no light trails residing in your brain when the lights are turned out on a tour of Mammoth Cave Kentucky..I know ..If your prone to a panic attack this may be too uncomfortable for some. Tom
@rauliruegas , Raul, not "rejecting", you meant "projecting," like a projector. Rejecting means to throw away or to disavow. Just trying to be helpful. @glupson, You have a valid point! Humans do not like absolute darkness. It makes them uncomfortable, one of the reasons we are so fond of fire. The only problem with eyes closed is that sometimes I wind up falling asleep:-0
@lewm , I thought you would like that. That song is on two records. Jazz From Hell, were it is done entirely on a synthesizer. The whole album is done on a Synthesizer. The version you saw is on The Yellow Shark Which I believe is the very last album he supervised before his death. Frank had a concept he called Conceptual Continuity. Certain themes come up repetitively over the years in reimagined forms. If you really want to understand him. You start from the beginning, Freak Out. I must warn you, if you are genre specific Frank is all over the place from Do Wop to Neo Classical, small groups to the London Philharmonic. If there are some genres you do not like Let me know and I will tell you what to skip. Stay away from any albums produced by the Zappa Family Trust for the time being. You can get a discography on Wikipedia. Just as a primer get the video "Roxy." This is Frank in the late 70's. It is very Jazz oriented. If you like tight bands and musical gymnastics with Jazz musicians you will love this. Then Start from the beginning.
"Listening to music in a dark room (all lights off) is the same as listening with your eyes closed, no visual distraction."
Seeing the darkness (with eyes open) may be quite distracting at times. Eyes closed may be easier. I am guessing that we are wired to expect darkness with eyes closed, but not with them open.
I see the dancing as an expressive art form mixed with music it is very powerful. The French Canadian dancer is Louise Lecavalier world famous and has danced with other musicians such as David Bowie. Tom
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Sorry but correcting a post in a 5 minutes interval after realizing we had made a mistake in our own description dont make the writer silly...
But posting that like a proof of his stupidity surely dont speak so great about the poster...
Try not rejecting your problem on ME..... "
I'm not said writer is silly and I 'm not rejecting to you any kind of problem in me.
My mistake was to took a false statement, that I did not know was false, as a true first hand experience fact by you.
In the mean time that you posted it you posted at least two other posts and was after around 30 hours when you posted your statements " against " rejecting.......
Only to be clear and in reality I don't care any more.
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