Synergistic Red Fuse ...

Teo_audio wrote,

"Something I seemed to have forgotten since the Stereophile forum days, that I’m now being reminded of. That you are a twisty cat, who... well..who knows what."

You may not remember but I am someone who likes to stick to the facts of the case and avoid personalities. I seem to recall from the Stereophile daze you don’t. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I prefer to avoid the personality part but like most... have to deal with it in recognition of what may be going on in the given case. Nor do my comments have meaning in that area, ie subtle jabs or whatnot. Which creates trouble as people sometimes think they are in the text.

But we are talking about music, which generally cannot successfully be done coldly, no matter how one might try. I tend to prefer to not truly aim for scientific coolness, but to be aware. Contradiction? Possibly. Human? Yes.

In related topics, I stopped cold a just opened thread on another forum (a few days back)... a soon to be tidal wave of rants against oddities and 'charlatans' in audio. It would have went on for another 2-20 pages, with you as the opening rants - whipping boy centerpiece. Stopping it was harmful to my personal and company reputation, as some of those might be potential customers. No matter how well I may have posted, someone would (and will) take it negatively, and run with it.

teo_audio, I like your references to "human clan nature". It reminded me of a similar but relevant quote that dealt with this phenomena in the political world, among others. With just a few changes, it can describe all manner of resistance to change:
"My point is the following: Behavioral scientists from another planet would notice immediately the semiotic resemblance between animal submissive behavior on the one hand and human obeisance to religious and civil authority on the other....
And they would conclude, correctly, that in baseline social behavior, not just in anatomy, Homo sapiens has only recently diverged in evolution form nonhuman primate stock."
---E.O. Wilson, Consillience: The Unity of Knowledge.

I'm sorry if I side-tracked this topic but "human clan nature" kind of sums it up.

All the best,
Nonoise

So if a fuse, the design of which includes a tiny, hair thin wire since it's designed to melt instantly if needed, is a "bottleneck" to the AC in any device in which it's used, then why is the equally tiny wire in, for example, an SR fuse, allowing "More Better and Special Treated" current to flow back and forth in it thus perhaps obviating the bottleneck phenomena and enhancing cello tone? The wire in it remains necessarily tiny, it will melt (we know this), and in spite of all that it's claimed to impart wonders into the circuits around it. This isn't the application of bespoke and protected technology, it's the application of predatory sales marketing skills aimed at the gullible, who once having paid through their noses to hear the magic can't help but imagine hey, "I can hear it…really…I can."

^^^ "The gullible." "Paid through their noses." "Predatory sales marketing skills."

Blah, Blah .... and more Blah.

Has anyone listened to any really good music lately? Just curious.

For me this morning it was Lester Young and some really great home roasted Brazilian coffee.

Frank