scottwheel
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| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “Just answer the direct ? how will YOU decide ?” What difference does it make to you how *I* determine state of the art? If you really want me to give you a step by step description of how I plan to judge the quality of my system then please give... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “The only issue you're dancing around with is this notion that all this double blind listening is done with "quick switching" I never said all blind listening *is* done with quick switching. I said it should be. The Harman shuffler switches sp... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “Slippery and very unscientific…. a peer would answer the question….but i will help you….. How are you going to decide your effort = SOTA ?” The invite was for you or Calvin or anyone else to come over and listen for yourselves and decide for yo... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “Every time I point you to that recording, you come back with evasion, side stepping something so simple as listening to another perspective that would help to educate yourself.” Have you read Toole’s book or any of Olive’s blog posts or any of t... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? An excerpt from one of Sean Olive’s blog posts. “An ongoing controversy within the high-end audio community is the efficacy of blind versus sighted audio product listening tests. In a blind listening test, the listener has no specific knowledge... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “That, and it’s not a YouTube video but a SoundCloud recording. What’s the matter, can’t you listen that long? Do you need pictures/video to keep your interest? Would what he said throw buckets of cold water on your position? The Harmon Speaker S... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “Paul Barton is of that source. Toole has worked with him from those early days and by now, should be back where the started which is where Barton lives “ So the testimonial of some guy who worked with Toole is a better source on how Toole did hi... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “ Toole's listening test were flawed, he positioned every different kind of speaker in the same location. ” I agree his tests were flawed. I didn’t say they were perfect. I said they were double blind. | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “I am wondering, using your own testing criteria / and methodology, just how we would draw a valid conclusion about your Las Vegas system being SOTA ?” I thought you guys don’t trust my “testing criteria” Don’t you guys trust your own ears? My in... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “@scottwheel Do you have any friends? You are not making any here and @calvinj said you really are obsessed with his posts. If you do not know what an Apple Airtag is then you are living in a cave in China. Best thing to do with a sociopath like ... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Then you have people like Floyd Toole and Sean Olive who strictly evaluated sound quality in their research using proper time synchronized quick switching double blind tests but are subjectivists. All of their studies were based on listener pr... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “A subjectivist use ONLY his ears to decide that a system is good or bad... “ listening with ONLY your ears means doing it blind. Some subjectivists do that and some don’t. | |
| The Ultimate in Smoke and Mirrors? BUT... I actually had one of the early Bybee power conditioners back in the 80s. I honestly could not tell any difference. Since I bought it used at a relatively low price I had no trouble selling it at no loss. | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? A subjectivist judges sound quality based on their personal preferences. The same way someone would judge food or art. If one finds the sound to their liking and then declares that to be good that is subjectivism. An objectivist judges sound qual... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? “You are completely wrong here... The two side subjectivist and objectivist are not divided between scientists on one side and superstitious dudes on the other side ...😁” that’s sort of what I said. The terms subjectivist and objectivist are mis... |