Had dinner with MG last night and asked him about this thread. He gave that MG smile and said pull it up and read the OP again.
"This isn't meant to start a fight, but it is important to on lookers. As a qualifier, I have my own audio forum where we report on audio issues as we empirically test them. It helps us short cut on theories and developing methods of listening. We have a wide range of systems and they are all over the world adding their experiences to the mix. Some are engineers, some are artist and others are audiophiles both new and old. One question I am almost always asked while I am visiting other forums, from some of my members and also members of the forum I am visiting is, why do so many HEA hobbyist talk theory without any, or very limited, empirical testing or experience?
I have been around empirical testing labs since I was a kid, and one thing that is certain is, you can always tell if someone is talking without walking. Right now on this forum there are easily 20 threads going on where folks are talking theory and there is absolutely no doubt to any of us who have actually done the testing needed, that the guy talking has never done the actual empirical testing themselves. I've seen this happen with HEA reviewers and designers and a ton of hobbyist. My question is this, why?
You would think that this hobby would be about listening and experience, so why are there so many myths created and why, in this hobby in particular, do people claim they know something without ever experimenting or being part of a team of empirical science folks. It's not that hard to setup a real empirical testing ground, so why don't we see this happen?
I'm not asking for peoples credentials, and I'm not asking to be trolled, I'm simply asking why talk and not walk? In many ways HEA is on pause while the rest of audio innovation is moving forward. I'm also not asking you guys to defend HEA, we've all heard it been there done it. What I'm asking is a very simple question in a hobby that is suppose to be based on "doing", why fake it?
thanks, be polite"
Then he said read the last 4 pages. The word that came to my mind was "prophecy". Everything and character Michael said was happening IS happening on this thread. He said when people are not "doing" the hobby it turns into talking aimlessly. After dinner he took me to his place where I saw another component on the tuning platform. He had me listen for a while. After that while he had me close my eyes. He replayed the music. The soundstage grew to almost double the size both side to side and front to back and height. "Lets go shoot a game of pool and come back". He didn't want me to tell him what I experienced but instead put this post up and he'll read it with the rest of the readers following this thread. When I came back from pool you wouldn't know it was the same system. He said after I post this he will tell me what he did to the system.
I am certain that he snipped the ties from the capacitors. I go back to listen tonight. I will give a report.