Dave
Beware the audio guru
I am not going to tell you who to believe. But for anyone who might be uncertain about sorting out conflicting claims here, I suggest they consider the behavior of experts in other fields. No good doctor offers a 100 percent guarantee on any treatment or surgical procedure, even if medical science suggests success. No good attorney will tell you that you have a case that positively can’t be lost, even if the law appears to be on your side. No true professional will insult you for the questions you ask, or abandon you if you seek a second opinion.
A doctor conducts his own tests. An engineer makes his own measurements. Neither will insist the burden of documentation falls upon you.
These might be details to consider as you sift through the many conflicting claims made on Audiogon. In short: Decide for yourself. Don’t let other people tell you how to think, or listen.
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prof ... I don’t recall many...or even any...people speaking in the absolutist terms you are writing about ... But I’d like to actually see an example or two ...If you keep reading the forums, I'm confident you'll recognize those who speak in absolute terms. I'm not going to single anyone out beyond what I did in the original post. |
dlcockrum IMO, after reading some of the posts here, the thread should have been titled "Beware the Blowhards".I was trying to be polite. |
I think this may be relevant to this discussion - When I had my first real opportunity to do a recording as a drummer back in the late 70's, I was shocked to hear a rather large disparity between what I thought I played and what I actually played. I realized that, while I was playing, I was hearing what I thought I played. It was only through a long period of playing and listening to playbacks was I able to train my ears to hear what I was actually playing as I was playing it. I think other recording musicians may be able to back me up on this one. Hearing is not a microphone to speaker process. Little physical movements of the earbones and eardrums are translated to impulses which then filter through our funhouse of a brain, which may distort the reality of the impulses to a god-knows-what degree. Just like eyesight. That's why anorexics look in the mirror and see themselves as fat. It's not what they see, it's what they think they see. This is getting complicated. |
Part of how to not be a turnip, or the follow up from my last post. Seek comfort and you die ...and condemn your children, and children’s children.... to being turnips....ever downward, ever less alive, ever less human:
To be comfortable, to seek comforts and be ’happy’ in the middle of the herd and be accepted... is to condemn your own genes (and your own daily expression in motion) and their expression... into the downward spiral of automaton and idiocy. The action, the future, and the growth of humanity... and most specifically, growth of the individual...is that place where the darkness of the unknown begins..the edges. When one is there, and communicates about it... the condemnation, screeching, ridicule, and rejection from the middle of the herd..becomes the loudest. One is dumbing on down, the other is -stepping on up. So what’s it gonna be? Comfort and peace, suckling and quiet, or the future and the growth? I’ve been on that path of being in constant discomfort, and on the edges of it, reaching into the darkness, since I was 12 ...and realized it was the only way out of ’death by simplicity and comforts’. I will not walk down the road - like everyone else. There’s nothing there. If you look carefully and wisely enough, everything in this life and world is pointing you right at this understanding. It should not take a scientific article to make it real in your mind. That would not be the correct method and way....as it would be the dead automaton way (life as a spaceholder for inactivated genes?). Making everyone else lift your load, you see... which is exactly the problem the article itself raises. And much more, of course. It's only a simple post on a forum... |
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