Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided

i know this is a discussion forum with mainly bored geezers entertaining themselves sipping coffee with background music, but let’s be serious for a minute

how do you get information and advice on anything if it is really important to you?

first, understand your source, what do they have to gain in giving you information, and you deciding one way or another? what is their dog in the hunt? are they seemingly helping you but actually helping themselves?

second, are they credible? aside from motivation, what is their experience level, their qualification for providing that info? do they practice what they preach?

third, what is the consequence to you of acting on the info and it’s actually bad info? how much effort should you make to ensure all your info is well grounded and accurate, and applicable to you?

@hilde45 wrote something to this effect early on... i'm just reinforcing...

chatter is chatter, but let’s not get carried away with the ridiculous

@jjss49  Well said and I agree. It's not a bad way to decide on medical advice. Don't trust the loudest voices or the ones with agendas behind their advice. 

@douglas_schroeder Appreciate your comment very much, and your reviews always educate me. In particular, you said, "I am a System Builder, who loves working with different gear to hear the result....The performance spectrum is much larger than you seem to realize....[it] is enormous and it goes quite a ways upward into SOTA."

I'm into this hobby in part for the music but also to see how much my sensibilities (cognitive and auditory) can be advanced. If one wants to get better at tennis, play someone better; if one wants to get better at audio, seek better sound.

Maybe I start thread ranking quality of member advice of thing like speaker and tweak. I be at the top of list with golden ear reward. Even my ear hair made of diamond.

@hilde45

@jjss49 Well said and I agree. It’s not a bad way to decide on medical advice. Don’t trust the loudest voices or the ones with agendas behind their advice.

lol - when my parents got old and sick with cancer, we would visit an oncologist, they would recommend chemo therapy, we would then see a surgeon, guess what, he says by far the best way is surgical resection, then we call on a radiation oncologist, now just guess what they recommended as the ideal initial treatment????

when what you have is only a hammer in your tool-belt, the world quickly looks like a giant, endless bed of nails