Talk but not walk?

mitch,

Indeed.  And if we think this style of blind repetition and rhetorical emptiness is bad enough here...imagine the Tuneland forum! 

Though perhaps everyone there employs their Third Eye to communicate on a higher level than us mere mortals. 

prof,

If it is of any consolation to you, most of the people here do understand your points. We may not all agree with some of your approaches all the time, but that is some healthy diversity, I hope. However, I still think you are wasting your energy on trying to prove your points. Whoever has been following this thread has already joined one of the three camps (yours, Michael Green's, or the middle one). Answers you are asking for will never come. Two of you are simply on two parallel lines, each one right and straight on his own, but never to meet. To me, Michael Green is like some picture of a renaissance man who does many things and does them out of passion or for whatever purpose he has for it. Electronics, carpentry, playing music live, studio work, debating (not your way, though), above average cars with some flair, traveling, having a diverse life along the way, and what not. You, however, bring the structured standards of 21st century and expect him to abide by them. That will not work. His approach clashes with what you are expecting big time. You, or anybody else, do not know if he is intentionally avoiding your questions or has no idea what you are even talking about and simply cannot answer. He openly admitted that he was not pursuing credentials so he may not be that familiar with approach you have. It does not matter if his claims about tuning are correct or not.

I am not trying to defend Michael Green at all. I am just observing as disparity between two camps has become so wide that it may be something else than stubbornness or arrogance at play. I mostly deal with people for whom your scientific approach is like drinking water, but I do have a number of friends who are highly educated and very intelligent who would be unfamiliar with methods you are requesting. They are just not in the field that uses such a methodology. Now, imagine someone not that young (forgive me if I am wrong, Michael, I do not know your age but have a feeling you are not underage) so has his ways already carved, with strong personality, beliefs based on his experience, and no formal education that forced him to go through the methods you are asking about in tuning. You cannot expect the person to jump up and down and give you p value of capacitor differences. Of course, the idea behind the OP is vague to me, too, and both of you can argue about it as much as you please.

Listening to "Hindu Love Gods" on my system, Absolutely Jamming! The difference between audiophile racks vs Platforms is nuts. I've now gone through the rack phase to the maple phase to tuning. The dynamic changes while going through these steps is shocking. Michael's suggestion of "Hindu" is a good one because I have heard this on other systems where it sounded congested. Before I would have rated this recording as ok to good now I would do my rating at excellent. There's dynamic range plus.

jf47t,

What kind of music is that (Hindu Love Gods)?

Addendum: Since the first part of this post, I got on the Internet and bought it. I guess, I will hear what it is. Thanks for recommendation.