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Why should audiophile deniers be allowed on an audiophile forum?

Why should we be subjected to audiophile deniers, on a site dedicated to audio?
It’s antithetical to the hobby and adds nothing to the pursuit. I want to quote something from another thread.

@djones51 wrote "exposing bull products like "audiophile switches, cables, fuses " and other highly questionable devices that serve no purpose"

What then, is the purpose of people with this agenda being on this site? To “expose bull products.” It’s fine for someone to post they tried a product and it didn’t work for them, but to dismiss entire product categories is not a discussion that belongs on an enthusiast forum.

Would a car enthusiast site stand for this type of post?

Try going on a Porsche forum, just for example, and posting that your Mustang is just as fast 0-60 and that others poster’s claims about their driving experience is “dubious.” See how long that will be tolerated

There are plenty of sites to poke fun at audiophile’s obsession with cables, power conditioners etc. Why does it belong here, especially when we can’t mute specific posters?

What’s next? Arguing that speakers that measure the same must sound the same and that we are all suckers for buying expensive speakers? I thought we got rid of trolling?

Isn’t it obvious with all the ASR related posts here lately we are being trolled?

A couple of months back I read a post here about someone that ordered a new cat8 cable from China. I tried it and posted back my fantastic results for others to benefit.

Personally that’s the kind of forum I’m interested in, not to come here to be challenged about what I hear and that since it can’t be measured so it must be “dubious.”

 

 

 

 

 

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deludedaudiophile
493 posts
 

Insane asylum. I have to agree. I am not an advocate of censorship, but some people are incapable of mature discourse.

 

dekay
4,249 posts
 

Political posts here @ A'Gon should be deleted ASAP, IMO, and the posters banned if they continue with such.

tylermunns
601 posts
 

I’m pleased to see so many people advocating free speech.

I’m so sick and tired of both sides of the aisle trying to destroy this crucial tenet of a free society.  Everybody’s in favor of free speech until that speech runs contrary to their personal beliefs.  It doesn’t work that way.

It’s the seemingly innocuous apologia that starts with, “free speech is applicable to blank for blah-blah-blah-reason, but in this instance we should blah-blah-blah…” that creates the type of permissiveness that leads to the absence of free speech on a much broader and more destructive level.  Obviously, at that time it’s already too late.

Again, I’m pleased to see people here who understand that and advocate free speech.

td_dayton
320 posts
 

letting guys come and say they think such and such sucks doesn't bother me. in my humble opinion the key to a good time is simply not caring. i don't take opinions that i find stupid seriously, and i genuinely enjoy mocking the people who insist that i do (not here though. i am mostly here to learn and probably buy at some point. also, have you guys checked out the what's on your turntable thread? i've gotten so many good recs for music i don't know anything about over there. killer thread.) 

but yeah i think showing up somewhere and telling strangers that you know what they hear better than they do because of charts is a great example of the type of behavior everyone can simply ignore, as opposed to agonizing over it. it simply does not matter, enjoy your stereo 👍

secretguy
1,772 posts
 

Whew....that biting "wit'.....

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ltmandella
174 posts
 
Yes! Report them to the FBI immediately! Such talk is a travesty! Treasonous! Don't let them get away with it! Next they will be saying god does not exist!
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