Upgrading Fuses

Frogman,

I certainly share your view, but these guys aren't listening to anyone but themselves and likely never will. Notice that one of them even has the audacity to talk about his subjective preference in cables! Of course, cables are different! Sheesh. Talk about calling the kettle black. Their motto is, "My measurements are better than your measurements." Or maybe it's "You have to prove your opinions are valid, but my B.S. is the gospel." No one asked for proof of anything here, but they will smother every voice that wants to simply talk about what they hear. FEAR THE EARS!!!!

This is the same kind of silliness that's going on over at the "What's the Best Speaker in the World..Objectively" thread. Wanker central.

There was once chef who asked other chefs whether they'd ever tried a very expensive brand of sea salt in a special recipe. One chef said, "It's amazing. You should try it." Another chef said, "I tried it and it's better but not really worth the extra money." Another chef replied, "It tastes the same as regular salt to me."

Finally, a very angry group of chefs demanded that people should stop endorsing this expensive salt because everyone knows that all salt is the same, "Laboratories have proven there's no difference," they cried. Some even claimed fraud was being committed. When asked if they'd ever tried the salt, they replied, "Of course not! They'd take away our cooking licenses if we were to do something so absurd!" One even said, "I wouldn't put arsenic in my food. Why would I put expensive salt in it?" Another angry chef said, "You can't rely on your own taste buds. They lie." After a pause, one of the complaining chef's changed the subject and began talking about the many different types of water he served in his restaurant.

I don't know about you, but I prefer to eat where the chefs rely on their senses and eat their own food. I use the same rationale when considering advice.

Wow!!! All this over the sound of a fuse?

No, Zmanastronomy, all this is over people who devote their time ridiculing others who are simply sharing the joys of their hobby. How'd it be if someone went to your systems page and kept posting comments about how "bogus" your homemade room treatments were and demanding you prove they work? (I happen to think they're cool, inspiring and impressive, btw). It's a free country but it's a shame when a few use that freedom as an excuse to ruin it for the many. I don't go to a "which amplifier has the best specs" thread and throw rocks at everyone because I don't happen to care much about specs. Heckling may seem trivial, until you are the one being heckled.

Your posts about your experiences on this topic have been welcome, appropriate and instructive...not because I think so (our views about the fuse happen to actually conflict) but because they have been in keeping with the stated purpose of the thread.

"How'd it be if someone went to your systems page and kept posting comments about how "bogus" your homemade room treatments were and demanding you prove they work? (I happen to think they're cool, inspiring and impressive, btw)."

He or she would probably like it & would tell you how to measure the effects if you wished. Effective room acoustic treatments leave a measurable footprint and many of us take various db measurements across our listening room when establishing acoustic treatment & subwoofer setup up & etc.
There are some pretty out there room acoustics things, telephone playback of magic signals for example, that do not leave a measurable footprint.
It could be argued I guess that one shouldn't refrain from spending money on the out there room acoustics things because they haven't tried them ?

"Why does it bother you that some of us perhaps have more sensitive hearing (by way of nature or training) in certain specific ways than others do? "

I think we all except the above to be a fact. I don't know that it bothers anyone but maybe it does. The thing is that the thresholds of human hearing are well established and are orders of magnitude below the thresholds of signal detection by other means. If you tell your neighbor that you can hear a mouse pass wind during a thunderstorm, he is going to give you a funny look.