He should really be posting here.
His ability to withstand the jabs and the pressures from the ’great mentally unwashed’ was/is unparalleled.
As a metaphor, one might say he has a mental postive pH of 14 and the ’negative proofing’ mindset types (definitively not the invention types!) have a mental pH of negative14.
When they mixed, the froth was immediate and continual. The negative would eventually expire or become the unrealized walking wounded (I’m fine, I’ll walk it off!)...and he would remain at +14.
Three quotes from two of our best, that say it all:
From Earnest Rutherford:
"All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial."
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
Too many stamp collectors around here confuse themselves with the idea that they are in the knowing in physics. Physics as an exploration is not trivial. See the first quote for clarity. The trivial is the dogma part that is in the textbooks. It is there for engineers when they build bridges. Huge divide.... and the two cannot mix.
Point: All of high end audio is an exploration. Therefore, keep one’s negative proofing and stamp collecting to one’s self. It has no place here. It is trivial. Let me re-phrase. One uses it to get up to pace or the edge. It’s a map. It is NOT the territory. From that point of being up to date (the book is a map to the edge) where, when arriving at the edge...the book and the data therein.. are all up to being questioned, changed, or even dismissed entirely. THAT is physics. THAT is high end audio.
High end audio is an equation with multiple unknowns and the trivial cannot reach it, nor solve it. The big one being that few seem to understand that human hearing and how this translates to engineering, is very much an unsolved mystery.
If this seems crazy, remember that no one here can explain what reality, or an atom is, or what gravity is, or what time is. The very basis of the carrier for your so called intelligence/being/self... is a giant freaking unknown. So stop it with the bloodclot crying about audio oddities. Jebus.
George Bernard Shaw:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
We need more and more unreasonable men in high end audio, it seems. As we can’t let the trivial people wear us down. Otherwise... progress ends.
His ability to withstand the jabs and the pressures from the ’great mentally unwashed’ was/is unparalleled.
As a metaphor, one might say he has a mental postive pH of 14 and the ’negative proofing’ mindset types (definitively not the invention types!) have a mental pH of negative14.
When they mixed, the froth was immediate and continual. The negative would eventually expire or become the unrealized walking wounded (I’m fine, I’ll walk it off!)...and he would remain at +14.
Three quotes from two of our best, that say it all:
From Earnest Rutherford:
"All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial."
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
Too many stamp collectors around here confuse themselves with the idea that they are in the knowing in physics. Physics as an exploration is not trivial. See the first quote for clarity. The trivial is the dogma part that is in the textbooks. It is there for engineers when they build bridges. Huge divide.... and the two cannot mix.
Point: All of high end audio is an exploration. Therefore, keep one’s negative proofing and stamp collecting to one’s self. It has no place here. It is trivial. Let me re-phrase. One uses it to get up to pace or the edge. It’s a map. It is NOT the territory. From that point of being up to date (the book is a map to the edge) where, when arriving at the edge...the book and the data therein.. are all up to being questioned, changed, or even dismissed entirely. THAT is physics. THAT is high end audio.
High end audio is an equation with multiple unknowns and the trivial cannot reach it, nor solve it. The big one being that few seem to understand that human hearing and how this translates to engineering, is very much an unsolved mystery.
If this seems crazy, remember that no one here can explain what reality, or an atom is, or what gravity is, or what time is. The very basis of the carrier for your so called intelligence/being/self... is a giant freaking unknown. So stop it with the bloodclot crying about audio oddities. Jebus.
George Bernard Shaw:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
We need more and more unreasonable men in high end audio, it seems. As we can’t let the trivial people wear us down. Otherwise... progress ends.