A controversial article!

[Arkless Electronics]

http://sound.westhost.com/articles/myths.html

I don't agree with everything said in the article myself... but most of it yes...

[Marco]

This is the only kind of person interested in that guff:





Say hello to 'Arnold'.

On Tuesdays, he wears nothing but a blindfold and a pair of his sister's panties, but gets much more excited at the thought of giving his mains cables a right good DBX-ing...

Marco.

[Ali Tait]

Nice school picture Marco!

[Marco]

Ha - those were the types I used to like to slap!

{Kidding}.

Marco.

[Oldpinkman]

Ha - those were the types I used to like to slap!

{Kidding}.

Marco.

I bet the one that grew up to be bill Gates wished he'd been playground cool instead

[Oldpinkman]

And jez

We both know, whatever else was read or ignored, Marco is not going to be able to resist trying listening to his system with his wedding tackle dipped in olive oil. I am opening a book on how long before we get a thread opened arguing over which extra virgin olive oil produces the best sonic effect

I bet it's a bloody Italian oil

[Marco]

Filippo Berio provides the nicest 'thrust'!



Marco.

[narabdela]

A controversial article!

I don't understand. What's controversial about it?

[Oldpinkman]

I don't understand. What's controversial about it?

Welcome to AOS.

[Marco]

Hugh, it's because most of us here are diehard subjectivists, who trust our ears (but certainly don't 'hate' science), and the article linked to makes some heavily objectivist statements that many of us would disagree with

It's also an old article, which I've seen many times before.

The problem is that on hi-fi forums there are too many resident nerds/geeks, as the technical aspects of this hobby, together with computers, attracts them, and computers are what we use to communicate with each other on the Internet. Nerds/geeks also tend to be 'sciencey types', who more often than not, possess an objectivist mindset.

Those types of people, whilst no doubt mostly very nice guys, think completely differently, certainly from how I do, and consequently hold diametrically opposed views on hi-fi. It also explains the personality clashes that inevitably occur between various proponents from either 'camp', when 'art' and science are, or appear to be, mutually incompatible.

That's why these types of threads crop up regularly (often, as in this instance, when links are posted that appear to confirm the views of a proponent from one 'camp', seeking to gain the intellectual high ground) and why, no matter how much debate takes place, about who is 'right' or 'wrong', there will NEVER be any consensus between those who occupy both sides of the divide.

All it creates is a nice archive of circular arguments, and sometimes the odd death threat

Marco.