I was asked the other day to outline what was put by the poster as "The world of hi fi according to Jez"..... a rather pejorative description I think as I would personally put it more as "the true world of hi fi". Much to my surprise Marco encouraged it!
So, on the understanding that I will put things in my own phraseology, which apparently some find "abrasive", others refreshingly honest, I will start such a thread and make switch mode V linear supplies the first topic.
Marco, I hope you are reading this! If I am "not allowed" to, for example, INSIST that something which is impossible, and would break the laws of physics, remains impossible even if several "golden eared" types claim to hear it, and that therefore the only viable explanation is a lively imagination, then I will not start the thread. I would see it as a "lecture", "teach in" or "master class" rather than a debate and, to use a medical analogy, if I were a doctor giving a lecture on health and the environment, I would not be willing to begin it on the understanding that "Oh, Dr Arkless, a quick word, some of our audience believe that people get sick due to evil leprechauns cursing the grass the cows eat and may not take kindly to being told that is impossible...could you skirt around that bit, maybe say it's open to various interpretations?"
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