guakus
Responses from guakus
| The "Snake Oil" Trope " He offers pragmatic, common sense and useful advice "No, he offers confirmation bias. It's typically a red flag when you see a headline: "Is X,Y, Z Worth The Money?" If you have to ask the question, the answer is 99% of the time, "no." | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @tablejockey " You're Agon fit! "I'll let the admins decide that. " I'm somewhere between hard science and audio hocus pocus. "Whatever floats your boat. :) | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @three_easy_payments " morbid curiosity "At least you admit you have a problem. Glad to be of help. :D | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @three_easy_paymentsIt pleases me that you're enjoying it. :) | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope We're touching onto a human phenomenon that has always been the downfall of human civilization. The "Us vs Them" dilemma. One side gets an idea that the other side cannot tolerate. It builds and tension grows until it boils over. No side ever com... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope " Or people like guakus who claim they are deaf altogether. "I give as I get. If you tell me "it’s all in your head" I’ll tell you you’re deaf. Fair trade. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @sbayne You can measure frequency, but determining whether that frequency sounds good is subjective. Just like sound can be objectively determined to be music based on the definition of the word music, but whether that music is any good is subjec... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @tomic601Folks are biting alright. Just at each other and not on any finer points of the discussion. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @sns You touch on many good points. Let's take cables and other tweaks out of the equation. What makes one speaker better than another if it has the same exact specs? If a $20,000 speaker can do 20hz to 20Khz @ 4 to 8 ohms and a $500 speaker can... | |
| Fun With Cable Risers @lak Beautiful system and clean. :)The issue I have is that I don't have any straight runs. Everything has to fit under a desk, so it has to snake around. I also wonder if in my next design, if I should add rubber feet to further absorb vibration? | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @jerrybj I feel you. I really wanted a place where I could talk about how different cables affect the system. Maybe even get some guidance on which DAC to eventually upgrade to.My first post was about my recent addition of Shunyata’s newly release... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @tony1954 I see we entered the Ad Hominem phase of the discussion. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @boxer12 My statement wasn’t directly aimed at you.In answer to your question, opinions cannot be "objective" because the nature of opinion is "subjective." Observation isn’t always opinion. If you witnessed a car crash, it isn’t opinion or subjec... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope @three_easy_payments If you have joined Audiogon for the sole purpose of trolling, then you're just sad. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope You know you've won the argument when all the opposition has left to offer is trolling. |