Audio nonsense

@pesky_wabbit oh man! A little deep in the thread, but I LOVED my portable Sony Minidisc. Still have it as a matter of fact! Great little unit, excellent sound as well! It’s one of those dinosaur era gadgets that will be in my keepsakes as long as I exist. Now, I just may go break that thing out and try it with some REAL headphones! 
 

Regarding the post as a whole, I think there are a ton of products out there that are pure money grabs. It just is what it is.

@waytoomuchstuff The absoluteness of their belief systems are a bit stunning at times.

Subscribing to known and accepted maths and physics that have accumulated over the history of human thought is not a belief system. While this goes back millennia, I do note that it was as recently as 976 AD that the concept of zero was used by a Persian chap, and Fibonnaci introduced this zero thing to Europe in 1202.

Any observation ("stunning") relying on an incorrect assertion that this is a belief system is irrelevant. Something called the Renaissance happened.

Incremental advancements are happening continuously. For example, engineers are working on Class D technology that is far superior than just a few years ago - and Class D has been around for well over half a century (I'm happy to be corrected on that, guessing a bit)..

It is known by diligent and humble engineers that further advancements will continue to be made - possibly not quite sure what they will be, but that’s pretty exciting, innit?

Measurement technology and a knowledge of relevant metrics has advanced substantially, and will probably continue to do so.

So, charge on Bumble Bees!! Trying using some snake oil to lubricate those slide rules?

Particularly when you see them mock and ridicule both the product and the consumer

Uh huh.

oldhvymec

I agree with you 100%

Not every solution neatly appears when there's a problem but when the timing's just right, it's amazing what works. Sometimes the solutions are ahead of their time, or simply not yet known by those who can benefit from them.

 

Subscribing to known and accepted maths and physics that have accumulated over the history of human thought is not a belief system.

however using it as a means to prevent or thwart experimentation is

suggesting that it is capable of describing the sum total of all physical and biological phenomena in the universe is

Sometimes the solutions are ahead of their time,

my dear departed grandmother used to tell me wondrous tales of electric cars

one of the main problems they posed was their ghostly silence..