I know i should not respond but it’s often stronger than me.
I have to work on that.
Thanks for your support.
Are you drinking late in the night?
I suspect it’s the case.
I’ve been there - may be there again!
Try to give people a break and space to have other opinions - I respect other opinions when well explained and sincerely put. Forums do bring out the worst in people at times, myself included, so it is a continual self-learning process to adapt.
But when eventually you see the same flak over and over, world without end, with no ultimate purpose other than to be contrary and just to attack you and your experiences, then just extract yourself gently from the equation and let it roll-on without you.
I’ve nothing against anyone on this forum and very rarely block the occasional person for a little while to clear away having to read things that provide me with no value.
DB.
I tend to think as you. But my problem, sometimes, and also in work when speaking with people, is to react.
But i know it’s not productive , time consuming, and tiring.
I feel however having made some progress since recent years.
Blocking members doesn’t work, because, even if I don’t receive notifications from them, they can respond to me.
I hope you are well. Keep safe. This forum needs people like you.
Darkebear,.you have a big heart.
There are at least two on this forum that I would never offer a beer.
And three that I’ve ended the relationship with.
But I’m like frenchrooster,.I ignore no one,but if I end a forum-relationship.
Well,.then I’ll do it openly in the thread.
/Peder🙂
For the record, I have never ‘’liked’ a post because it was by a particular person, nor because it was ‘against any other particular person. I only ‘like’ where a post has been something I have particularly agreed with, or if not agreed with specifically then felt it was a particularly fitting post.
And I do not “support” anyone because they are who they are, however I do sometimes lend support where I feel an individual is being unfairly or unreasonably pursued by another - as indeed I have done responding against others ‘attacking’ you on at least a couple of occasions.
Ok IB, i take it into account.
Good dreams.
From your experience, you claim to prefer the sound of a short ethernet cable as opposed to one that is longer. Are you prepared to sit a double blind test in order to prove your claim?
Well, he did answer about the burn-in: he has tested this, although he hasn’t specified whether this was blind or not blind A/B
@Peder, Thank you for at last responding to one of my questions. I am sorry I had to take the line I did, but at least we are there now. I do have some responses to your long post:
What on earth gives you that impression? Perhaps you have you mixed me up with someone else?
I have never said that specifications beat listening in respect of anything. On one occasion I recommended to someone asking what ethernet cable to use that they start with a basic cable just ensuring it is well made and compliant with the ethernet specification, but not ruling out other cables. Otherwise I don’t think I’ve mentioned specifications at all in relation to cables or switches. In respect of other hifi matters I think my references to specifications have only been when, for example, I have answered people’s questions on subjects like loudness in relation to speaker sensitivity and amp power etc, basing my answers on published measurement data.
And if you look back in this thread you will also recognise that I have never said ethernet cables and switches can’t affect the analogue sound - indeed I have identified ways in which that can happen, and identified reasons why different people may have different experiences with the same cables or switches, suggesting ways to make personal observations more meaningful to others. In this thread I think there is just one thing about which I have registered my disbelief, which is ‘burn-in’ of cables, and although mentioned by people from time to time that has been very much a peripheral subject until some exchanges in just the past couple of days.
My “like” of that post was to indicate that it stated something I also felt. It was not a matter of experience vs superiority, but rather the way in which your periodic attempts to shut people down by citing your experience is done in a manner that comes across, to me at least, as if you view your experience as the be all and end all that brooks no argument, hence giving an impression that you feel a sense of superiority to those people, and expect them to kow tow to you. With that impression as a background, your post suggesting that other people post things to show their superiority seemed rather hypocritical, so when Beachcomer indicated that he or she clearly thought the same I indicated that I concurred.
If, as your subsequent response to Osprey suggested, you do not feel you are superior to others here, and have not meant to give that impression, then I apologise for misunderstanding.
I’m sure the pictures will answer your question,.but if you don’t understand.
• Yes,.I have…!!
I’m probably one of the few on this forum who have tested this…!!
So,.Innocent_Bystander:
Once you’ve done the same,.we can discuss and exchange experiences on this…Not Before.!
I am so pleased that have tested ‘burnt-in’ cables in direct A-B comparisons against virgin ones. That would certainly add relevance to any statements you make as to whether and in what way they may have changed, and I look forward to hearing more details of what you compared and how, and what differences you heard, as I don’t recall you publishing before. (Ideally you will have blind tested of course, but even without would be interesting.)
You won’t of course hear from any testing by me in this regard because my music doesn’t stream over ethernet so no testing is relevant or possible.
I challenge you here and now,.to a contest in installing a music-system.
Interesting challenge, though I can’t see how it would ever happen in practice - and in any case I have never claimed any form of super ability in installing a system, though if we ever ended up living near each other it might be worth it, even if I ‘lose’! This does however remind me of one other question I asked in the past to which you never replied, from post currently showing as 3316 in this thread. It relates to your description of and reliance on Tune-dem, and is very relevant to your inference that you can unfailingly tell which of two things sounds better in just a few seconds (which I assume is with just one piece of music)
What would be your conclusion auditioning something using Tune-dem, and following the tune of every instrument was absolutely better than anything you’ve heard before, except that the bass tune you could only follow by the harmonics because the fundamentals were missing due to a hard frequency cut-off of, say, say 120Hz? Would you and your fellow team universally choose that cable or box, or would anyone say no because to them the low bass is a fundamental (pun not intended!) part of the music and they wouldn’t enjoy the music if it was missing?
And finally:
You’ve been following me for four years,.trying to question my credibility all the time.
I have to beg your forgiveness as I have no specific recollection of you in the old forum and certainly haven’t been following you. I’ve had a quick search to remind myself but to no avail, though the search facility is very limited - you’ll have to remind me of the threads. But regardless, I do not question people’s credibility unless they persistently post nonsense (e.g. trolling), and certainly as far as I recall yours have not fallen into that category.
However, I do like to understand. Indeed, only through understanding can we collectively progress, rather than blindly stumbling on things. So I ask questions and seek answers, and pursue when people don’t respond, and I know that sometimes I have sought clarifications from you.
And I challenge where there is disbelief of or distortion of reality (like suggesting digital ‘bits’ changing, or claiming immunity to any possible psychological effects, etc). But at the same time I accept that we don’t know it all: but that is not a reason for not wanting to know, rather I see it as a reason when reporting something apparently anomalous to note all possibly pertinent details for the benefit of others.
DorianAnatolios, all is opinion here, we trust from personal experience. There is no need for anyone to prove they like what they like, much less to sit in front of a stressful double blind test that by its very nature will often give an unreliable result with many people.
On a further point, could ALL members here please refrain from making personal comment about other members - discuss the subject at hand, not the presumed personality or aspects of other members. Thanks.
Richard, from my perspective discussion should be encouraged for the benefit of the community, however you are more than welcome to use your powers of moderation to intervene where necessary.
Perhaps because pedantry is not among my tastes…
That response is a non sequiter.
But at least it reveals we have one taste in common.
Contrary to cables, if I leave my dinner out of the fridge for some days, it will not taste better. But perhaps should I make a double blind test for that …
They look very nicely and evenly burnt in to me. Evenness of burn-in is of course not something we discuss much. Possibly just as well…
stressful double blind test that by its very nature will often give an reliable result with many people
I presume (Dr Livingstone, or should it be Dr Freud?) “an unreliable” or was it “a reliable”?
Yes, indeed. pesky keyboard… thanks!
Which ?
True, but I shouldn’t really have to.
And yes, discussion is what it’s all about, but better to enter into it with an open mind at all times, I find.
Dollars better spent elsewhere (audio or otherwise).
Charles, really!
There are no other budget categories.
I am.