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| Audiophile virtues Goethe: "...it is possible to say that every attentive glance which we cast on the world is an act of thoerizing.... Theorizing is inherent in all human experience, and the highest intellectual achievement...would be to comprehend that everything ... | |
| Audiophile virtues rvpiano: Bravo! Still...do you know the several Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performances of selected Haydn Symphonies? IMO, the best performances of those works on record, and superlative SQ as well. I wish they'd done more of them (to my knowledge,... | |
| Ridiculous assertions that someone is being ripped off or conned hce1: both excellent points. Insulting comments regarding someone else's expressed opinion are not constructive, and just plain rude. If I've ever been guilty of that, I apologize. And secondly, again yes: science begins with hypotheses to explain... | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Holes Oops! Guess I was punked. The closing reference to "St. Herbert" and "weeping about all the shallow empty years..." should have tipped me off. So these "Black Holes" are snake oil, in your opinion? | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Holes Paul, I would have sent you a PM, but couldn't find a way to do that. Would you mind explaining how this thing works? Not the "science," Herbie's site attempts to explain that. But: how do you apply it to the CD? Does it get applied to both sides... | |
| Ridiculous assertions that someone is being ripped off or conned This discussion overlaps with the many about "objective" vs. "subjective" criteria, and is at the heart of the very existence of this forum, this website, and magazines that review equipment. "The bottom line" is the bottom line: most good stereo ... | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... baylinor hit the spot. And I'll second the recommendation of Jim Smith's book. In any case, it is certainly true that room acoustics are too often an overlooked element in one's system, every bit as important as any component—and "free" to experim... | |
| That Other Audiophile Website FWIW, I recently discovered a similar problem with THIS site. Some time ago (February 2020), I purchased a pair of Revel speakers on Audiogon from a seller with "100% positive feedback." After my purchase had cleared, the seller informed me he did... | |
| Would Appreciate Advice Before I Buy Much good advice here, most of it skirting the personal preference trap. Best if you can audition what you think you'll like in your own listening environment before you commit.I have one bone to pick, however. The Pro-Ject turntable did get lots ... | |
| On ''what there is'' mijostyn: yes, the fire burns if I put my hand in it. But—as Descartes already pointed out—the sensation of "burning" is not "in" the fire but in me, the experiencer. Is fire "hot"? Well, that's the word we use in English to identify the sensation... | |
| On ''what there is'' This post doesn't belong on an audio forum, so I should just resist the temptation of weighing in. But I can't.First, Quine's point (in "Ontological Relativity," from which comes the "Gavagai" coinage), as well as in several other places, is just ... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard Thanks to the Abominable Snowman for Monty Python's "Philosopher's Song." That belongs here in response to MC's OP—for its sarcasm. It has always seemed to me that skit's point was to poke fun at Australians. The Aussie philosophy department where... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard John Cage, 4'33" | |
| You can go home again Interesting question. But surely, the answer will differ between individuals, and even for the same person with respect to different experiences and tastes. Was the first time you had sex the best time? Are you still "chasing after" a repeat of th... | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different hilde45:Your contrast between a film critic's qualitative analysis and a scientific, quantitative account (e.g., of the number of frames in a film) is very clever, and telling here. "Qualitative" and "quantitative" roughly correspond to my distinc... |