Hi Axel, the proposal with the "common ground" - establishing by a package of records agreed upon - is just a suggestion to a better understanding and maybe a kind of test ground for all.
It is neither to further support my already big enough by all standards ego nor my in the very end futile attempt and quest for perfection.
It is just a plain idea for a common ground - giving each and everyone a firm point to set the lever.
Nothing else.
As for the questions I no longer have ...
I do not ask here and I do not ask Audiophiles.
When questions arose which I can't answer myself in decent time and with my - not universal - knowledge, I turn to a few good engineers and scientist at 3 local scientific institutes - none of them is related with audio in any respect - and get facts and results which are backed by graduated and studied men who are all in research and development.
No opinions, no listening experiences - just scientific results from empirical tests.
I am certainly not too old to learn.
Still learning every day - but not in audio.
Question do come up from time to time, but they are getting fewer and fewer the past years.
Once you are no longer occupied by all too many questions you can use the knowledge and form systems which really reflect the gained knowledge.
One strange thing to watch is, that given this universal source of information - the net - I have noticed that a lot of fairly common analog knowledge from the 1980ies and early 1990ies is no longer common knowledge today.
Lost and forgotten for/and by the majority of todays audiophile community.
You too may have noticed that I have never given any comment about the sound of your system - but you accused me to do so?
All I did say that if you (not personally but universally spoken - thus including myself) do not hear a difference doesn't mean it isn't there.
It implies that the component under review may either be ahead of the rest of the system or that the overall resolution isn't good enough to show its virtues.
Nothing else.
I would never turn to a purple language about others, - something I was confronted with by some posters here the past days.
I neither do need a speakers corner like Hyde Park nor do I have any "truth" (which according to some oldskool philosophers is nothing else but a yet undiscovered lie....) to give - at least not to Audiophiles.
The fact that I did kind of defend an old design of a truely great mind constantly against others and (- in my highly subjective and blinded eyes and deaf ears -) unfair downrate doesn't imply that I am preaching a truth.
You may not like my way nor the fact that I am not always polite and forgiving in my comments.
Thats no problem - just ignore me.
There is enough free space left and right my shoulders.
Virtual and in real life.
I get so much attention in my everyday real life that I can certainly handle that.
Cheers,
D.
It is neither to further support my already big enough by all standards ego nor my in the very end futile attempt and quest for perfection.
It is just a plain idea for a common ground - giving each and everyone a firm point to set the lever.
Nothing else.
As for the questions I no longer have ...
I do not ask here and I do not ask Audiophiles.
When questions arose which I can't answer myself in decent time and with my - not universal - knowledge, I turn to a few good engineers and scientist at 3 local scientific institutes - none of them is related with audio in any respect - and get facts and results which are backed by graduated and studied men who are all in research and development.
No opinions, no listening experiences - just scientific results from empirical tests.
I am certainly not too old to learn.
Still learning every day - but not in audio.
Question do come up from time to time, but they are getting fewer and fewer the past years.
Once you are no longer occupied by all too many questions you can use the knowledge and form systems which really reflect the gained knowledge.
One strange thing to watch is, that given this universal source of information - the net - I have noticed that a lot of fairly common analog knowledge from the 1980ies and early 1990ies is no longer common knowledge today.
Lost and forgotten for/and by the majority of todays audiophile community.
You too may have noticed that I have never given any comment about the sound of your system - but you accused me to do so?
All I did say that if you (not personally but universally spoken - thus including myself) do not hear a difference doesn't mean it isn't there.
It implies that the component under review may either be ahead of the rest of the system or that the overall resolution isn't good enough to show its virtues.
Nothing else.
I would never turn to a purple language about others, - something I was confronted with by some posters here the past days.
I neither do need a speakers corner like Hyde Park nor do I have any "truth" (which according to some oldskool philosophers is nothing else but a yet undiscovered lie....) to give - at least not to Audiophiles.
The fact that I did kind of defend an old design of a truely great mind constantly against others and (- in my highly subjective and blinded eyes and deaf ears -) unfair downrate doesn't imply that I am preaching a truth.
You may not like my way nor the fact that I am not always polite and forgiving in my comments.
Thats no problem - just ignore me.
There is enough free space left and right my shoulders.
Virtual and in real life.
I get so much attention in my everyday real life that I can certainly handle that.
Cheers,
D.