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Responses from clearthink

What's your process for comparing new gear, cables, etc.?
millercarbon" I never met anyone with zero memory before. How you even remember you have a stereo is beyond me."This yet yet another insulting, degrading, "pendantic" remark from one of the cite's most confused contributors and authors Millercar... 
Vibration Source?
Really I do not think any one here understands what it is that you are talking regarding. 
How does the Phase Linear 400 compare?
The famous Flame Linear amplifier was a cheap, dangerous, unreliable amplifier in its day and now it is just old and obsolete but one would probably be safe because if it was going to burn up it would probably have done so already! 
Ehernet cable question in streaming systems
sailboat"sigh..... shame so many folks don't understand how digital music actually works."Since you see to be a knowledgeable expert, authority, and possibly even another Audiogon visionary why don't you tell us how it works because as you might... 
Tweaks - An Honest Discussion
three_easy_payments "Apparently one of the great things about being a tweak guru is being able to extract thousands of dollars of better performance from a piece of gear that the designer/manufacturer should have included for mere pennies of inc... 
Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered?
ieales"why would I lie? I’m not selling anything." Accusing someone of deception, lies, and/or misrepresentation, deceit or even fraud is a common argumentative technique used frequently in politics but also frequently used, exerted, and applied h... 
Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered?
heaudio123"You have not cited one source. Not one at all. A source is a research paper, not a name. Fine I source Floyd Toole. Is this how it works? Names mean nothing. An paper or similar they have published with actual tests that prove your hypo... 
Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered?
This is a most entertaining, enjoyable, and remarkable conversation between 2 people who do not know of what they talk about in fact "cleeds" doesn't even own a Music Reproduction System! This type of argument, disagreement, and debate is because ... 
Speaker cable geometry question
drblank"A cable is an LRC filter or "network" "That is true, valid, and verifiable provided the cable is defective, deficient, or improperly specified and also provided we are talking about cables for use in a traditional Music Reproduction Syst... 
Uptone EtherRegen
djones51"Should be your not you are."Yes thank you for pointing that out English is not my first language but one of 8 depending how you count because some are dialects of others that I converse in and I have trouble sometime with contracted wor... 
IM Distortion, Speakers and the Death of Science
heaudio123"I see in addition to not knowing how sigma-delta DACs work, not knowing much about AI, and not knowing how common mode inductors work, you also don't know what the word plagiarize means"Actually the others who are contributing here ha... 
What is the average dealer mark up?
heaudio123"BestBuy runs a GP of around 23-24%"Actually they would be bankrupt if that were true you clearly lack sufficient sources, data, and  information to reliably state any thing about Best Buy profit. 
Which is better for a DBA (Swarm); powered subs or unpowered?
ieales"DBA subs give a time incoherent mess everywhere."Of course this is actually valid, verifiable, and repeatable how ever there are "lead heads" who love lots and lots of bass they like to "pump it up" so of course for them they need many su... 
Uptone EtherRegen
djones51"Never said people couldn't enjoy. I said if you understand how switches work you would question the claims made about it."But that is not really what you mean which is not question but denigrate, disqualify, and reject without doing any... 
10 Audio Cable Myths and Facts
prof"Would you like to answer the question: What test can a Golden Ear take that could falisfie his belief that a tweak objectively changed the sound? (That is, for instance, that could distinguish between his having imagined or misperceived that...