Fuses that matter.

Thank you Nonoise. You are a gentleman. But I too have a swan song...

06-08-12: Geoffkait
Bryon, congratulations on the most hilarious and deceptive post so far on this thread.

Come on, Geoff. You can do better than that. No one here is going to believe that you found my post either hilarious or deceptive. If you think you can trick people with that feeble misdirection, you’ve miscalculated by an order of magnitude. It isn't just that your misdirection is facile. It's that it's bizarre, as Mapman pointed out.

On the bright side, you've provided everyone with an excellent illustration of the Method of Evasion, which is the hallmark of Obscurantism. The Method goes like this…

1. Be cryptic.
2. Misrepresent your opponent.
3. Change the subject.

Calling my post “hilarious and deceptive” does all three in roughly equal measure. You also regularly employ a fourth tactic, which is your personal touch on Obscurantism…

4. Project your own misconduct onto your opponent.

Obviously, I’m referring to your suggestion that my post was "deceptive." Throughout this thread, I've proceeded with openness and candor, I’ve freely admitted my mistakes and limitations, and I've given no reason to believe that I have the slightest thing to gain by deception.

The truthfulness of that statement, and the sincerity of the post you called “deceptive,” is transparently obvious to other posters on this thread, as evidenced by their remarks. Add to that the fact that I’ve never once been accused of deception in the three years I’ve participated on Audiogon. In light of all that, your suggestion that I was being deceptive is so implausible that it’s difficult to imagine that even you believe it.

On the other hand, you are routinely accused of deception. Several posters have accused you of it on this thread already. I’ve personally charged you with Obscurantism on more than one occasion. Trying to project that accusation onto me is about as persuasive as its elementary school equivalent: “I’m rubber, you’re glue…”
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Chad – I agree with you. What’s remarkable isn’t that people argue. What’s remarkable is that they cooperate. You mentioned Human Nature in an earlier post. Personally, I believe many of the contemporary sociobiological theories about the “nature” of Human Nature, which suggest that it is deceptive, aggressive, and self-interested, but also that it can be trustworthy, cooperative, and altruistic.

I would add that I believe that there is not ONE Human Nature but MANY. While everyone has all of those traits, we each have them in different proportions, creating a wide variety of Human Natures. That is visible every day in the microcosm of Audiogon. While Obscuratism, Dogmatism, and other antisocial behaviors are easily found, so are sincerity, generosity, and kindness.

And that is something to feel encouraged about.

Bryon

Bryon, what is hilarious is that you spend so much time arguing with *me* - geez, I thought everyone knew I was just a dodge and weave troll. Hell, I wasn't allowed to post here for four years, even to defend myself, because the threads tended to get a little, uh, out of hand. The threads on machina dynamica went south pretty fast even without me, as you can probably surmise. Ironically, I have been the number one seller on Audiogon for the past five years with the highest rating, too, so all this angst and hand wringing has me a little puzzled. I wonder, Is it something I said? Ha ha ha

It probably goes without saying, but I'll say anyway that I am in total agreement with what I consider to be Bryon's exceptionally incisive, precise, and clear analyses and comments.

Furthermore, I consider his finding of sonic differences between the fuses he has tried to be more persuasive than most such claims, given his careful and thorough methodology, his clearly unbiased and open-minded approach, and his precise description and qualification of the results.

On another note:

1)If indeed AC line fuses in audio components can result in perceptible sonic differences, and

2)Given that parties on both sides of the issue (me and TBG, for example) mutually recognize that those differences defy technical explanation and understanding, and

3)Given that most and perhaps nearly all reported fuse comparisons seem to be between the stock fuse and one or more expensive fuses,

what basis is there to assume that a comparison among a variety of INEXPENSIVE garden-variety fuses would not result in a perception of comparable differences, with the winner of the comparison perhaps being subjectively as good as any of the expensive fuses? I see no such basis or rationale from a technical standpoint, and I see no such basis in any of the nearly 400 posts that have appeared in this thread so far.

Bryon's finding that the stock fuse was preferred in two different components to one of the expensive fuses that were tried gives added legitimacy to that question.

Personally, I have no interest in taking the time to perform that experiment. But would one of those who has advocated the superiority of expensive fuses vs. stock fuses care to give it a try?

Regards,
-- Al

Did anybody else like the box the Hifi Tuning Supreme came in as much as me?

Geof,

There's something to be said about a persons character and then there's something to be said about coming clean in such a lowly fashion.

Especially after such a nice dress down.

Do all trolls deflect this way or are others of your ilk better equipped to deal with it?

Maybe is was something you said. Ho Ho Ho.

All the best,
Nonoise