I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged.
I just can't clear my head of this. I don't want to start a measurements vs listening war and I'd appreciate it if you guys don't, but I bought a Rogue Sphinx V3 as some of you may remember and have been enjoying it quite a bit. So, I head over to AVS and read Amir's review and he just rips it apart. But that's OK, measurements are measurements, that is not what bugs me. I learned in the early 70s that distortion numbers, etc, may not be that important to me. Then I read that he didn't even bother listening to the darn thing. That is what really bugs me. If something measures so poorly, wouldn't you want to correlate the measurements with what you hear? Do people still buy gear on measurements alone? I learned that can be a big mistake. I just don't get it, never have. Can anybody provide some insight to why some people are stuck on audio measurements? Help me package that so I can at least understand what they are thinking without dismissing them completely as a bunch of mislead sheep.
@nonoise :
Newcomer?? LOL!! The delusional dude is on his 13th username already. If you count his posts under all his usernames, he has more posts than the rest of Audiogon users
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It is very important to underline and precise that Peterson did not make a "gender stance" at all...His remark which goes around the world was about free speech and the insane Trudeau who want to rule language by law...His rant has nothing to do with gender choices of people...By the way have you read "maps of meanings" his main book ? I dont know but for me no ordinary academic write a so deep book...He is not Einstein, Darwin or Freud or Grothendieck for sure but he is not an ordinary academic... Read his book and come back to speak...i read it 12 years ago... 😁😊
Philosophy importance is not about answers, it is about value, meanings and questions... The way we question ourself and everything else matter more than technological answers...Sorry....
The so called " death of philosophy" emerge way after the Renaissance and after the Romantic Era in the midst of materialism and mechanistic night...Blake called that the industrial age or The "tree of death", the era of Urizen... All that is described in a more easy to understand way in another great poet and also scientist Goethe in his Faust... Then there is no philosophy death, but instead the complete domination of materialism... The disconnection between science and philosophy was pushed by the technological hubris of occidental empire domination... Some philosophers reacted against this nominalism which success is at the source of modern physical science, Charles Sanders Peirce one of the greatest scientist and philosopher in America for example and Husserl in Europe and many others... The "life’s mysteries" are not one by one decoded each day, like an engine or a mechanistic set of riddles, in the opposite, the area of knowledge grow like a surface and the mysteries increase like a volume... The universe is boring and understood "more" each day only by the transhumanist sect who will let the machine do the mind work and park human in box where they "will own nothing and be happy" .... What is understood better each day is that the cosmos is a more vast mystery than we ever dream to think it was...Our little new answers are dwarved by the new questions... Only sleepwalkers take technology at face value, knowledge is not science, and science is not technology... Knowledge is an art and an ethic and a way to conduct our life and our body and senses among the phenomena to understand them without destroying them...It encompasses science and technology not the reverse... Goethe is the last great artist, scientist, and poet, he does not wrote philosophy in a a way a university professor wrote it, like Hegel was, but the legacy of Goethe is urgently needed in transhumanist era more than any other philosopher... Anyway the good news save for the transhumanist sleepwalker is materialism is dead...Alas! A.I. is not a creature of materialism, it is a creature of our imagination, and the risk is that we may put ourself captive in the box of our limited imagination under the domination of a ghost manipulated by who?...
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