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Nominations ?
Best...
Audio Asylum (of course!)
Steve Hoffmann Forum
Vinyl Engine.
Worse...
Audio Karma
AVS
Audioholics
Follow Ups:
In no particilar order-
Good sites:
Audio Asylum
Audio Karma
Vinyl Engine
Bad Sites:
Audioholics (Major conflict of interests there)
Audio Review
A bit different than than all the rest.
Hoffman forum is wonderful for finding out about great sounding pressings, but the people who post on hardware generally know chuff all. there is some shockingly bad advice.
SMEV on a P3 anyone?
Just when one wants to believe that Audiogon chat is haut cuisine, the censor over there rears his ugly head. I recently had a post deleted that was critical of Grand Funk Railroad.
Audiogon censorship is nowhere close to what the censors on the Hoffman vanity board do every day.
These are the forums I like, in descending order:
1. AudioAsylum.com
2. Audiogon.com
3. Stevehoffman.tv/forums
4. Head-fi.org/forums (headphones)
5. AVS (for video display devices)
Thankfully, the cesspool of derangement that was Audio Annex is now defunct.
AudioAnnex has been reincarnated as AudioAnnext.
Your comments about the site and John E. are spot on.
I wouldn't be too sure of that.
:-)
and so would bwk. 'nuf said.
...regards...tr
nt
I wonder who the sockpuppets are using as a reason to live now? Isn't anyone concerned about the poor innocent sockpuppets?
Whither John E. and F3K?
;-)
If there is a God then John E. has been struck by lightning and is currently burning in unimaginable agony in Hell for all eternity. In an early 2008 posting on Audio Annex John E. mocked a well - known audio industry figure who had survived cancer by posting "he could have taken the easy way out and died." The loathsome scumbag also made jokes about some unfortunate circumstances that same industry figure had experienced in his personal life. John E. even attacked the guy's wife and kids.
> who had survived cancer by posting "he could have taken the easy way out and died."
I'm sure you know more about the context of that remark, but nevertheless that is different from saying, "he should have...."
The statement as is could convey admiration for tenacity.
I'm not going to repost one of John E.'s depraved rants, but you can rest assured that the context was not sincere "admiration for tenacity." It was written with puerile sarcasm and was clearly mocking the subject's misfortune. Based on his writings it appears that John E. is incapable of any normal human feeling except rage and self - pity.
I knew that John E. had a warped sense of humor, to say the least, but this is certainly a new extreme.
My guess, based on some private correspondence that I had with him years ago, is that he's deep into mind-altering substances.
Best? Parts Express Tech Talk, hands down. Some extremely knowledgeable and friendly folks over there, eager to share and contribute. Primary focus is on DIY speaker building, but frequent good discussions occur on many technical and theoretical aspects of sound reproduction.
Worst? Dunno. I don't waste a lot of time at places where hostile dogmatism (subjectivist OR objectivist) reigns, or people are insulted for legitimate inquiries, or trolls consume significant bandwidth.
You mean the guy on Welcome Back Kotter?
(nt)
I cruise some forums for information and some for entertainment. Guess.
Kal
I'm glad you find us entertaining, Kal.
But you really should go "Outside" for information!
;-)
COMPUTER AUDIOPHILE
For most courteous, the least flames, best spelling and grammar.
May I ask what is your primary objection to each of the three that you listed as worse?
Best regards,
Jim Smith
...rec.audio.high-end gets my vote.
Run by pro-DBT objectivists.
rec.audio.high-end is moderated, but no one is going to be kicked off for being a "subjectivist" as long as they can interact with others without resorting to personal attacks. That said, it is a pretty sleepy newsgroup.
The worst is certainly rec.audio.opinion, which was long ago abandoned to the spammers. Even when people were actually posting about audio there it was a nest of vipers.
Don't forget hydrogenaudio where, if you don't have measurements to prove otherwise, everything sounds the same!
"Hyena pack mentality" is another expression that comes to mind, when reading a thread at HydrogenAudio, where some naive newcomer dares to mention that X sounds better than Y.
Another nice detail - moderators there are more than willing participants in witch-hunting, not just with their moderating decisions, but with actual mocking, ridiculing, and insulting.
If all audio gear sounds alike, what's there to discuss? It's like a forum for blind people discussing colors.
Have to admit, though - when I have time, I enjoy going there and reading some of the threads. They never fail to make me shake my head and laugh. So many beliefs, so little experience.
Silly boy.
"Probability is the very guide to life."---Cicero
pretty pathetic.
All clear, clever girl?
Maybe if they ever kiss a girl they will lighten up. All those years of wedgies and being pushed in the bushes takes it's toll.
You know someone's pretty butt-hurt when they start attacking other people's character...
If anyone's interesting in learning what at least one of HA's mods does for a living, do a reverse DNS look-up on my IP.
I imagine these boys:
- Arnie K.
- JJ
- Ethan W.
That's the thing, you see - it would be easier to understand, if they were only pimple-faced punks. As it stands, that whole panopticon is, as they say about sports teams, "perfect blend of veteranship and youth".
Arnie "Fife" Krueger... one bullet in his gun... and it constantly misfires!
But they are all moderators.
You have no evidence to demonstrate that kissing girls would cause lightening up. This is a clear violation of #8 of our Terms of Service. We would first need to engage in a controlled double-blind, peer-reviewed, level-matched ABX kissing test to evaluate your claim. That's also the only way we can eliminate the possibility of bias being introduced due to any form of girl-attractiveness-quotient. Ideally we would need to kiss one girl 16 times or 16 girls once, but the remote possibility of finding even one girl willing to engage in the project means we may have to resort to kissing blow-up dolls, our parents, pets, Star Wars figurines, or each other.
Given that we concluded in Public Test #47,396 that there is no measurable difference between kissing a real girl and an inflatable girl, this shouldn't affect the outcome of the test. I do not accept the argument that because the real girl was not, in fact, conscious at the time, it somehow invalidates this test. We may need to test this proposition by using a girl who is willing to be kissed while conscious and also kissed while unconscious, but so far most who have been asked have replied "I'd rather die"; this seems extreme, as the unconsciousness need only be temporary.
We would then need to determine a method of accurately measuring the amount of lightening up achieved by the kissing process and whether this can be differentiated from a control of random lightening up that comes from normal everyday activities like getting a new pen protector or finding that you have earned some extra Linden Dollars overnight that will help you pay for that Star Trek uniform for your Second Life avatar.
As we must also eliminate any emotional content from the process of 'lightening up', I suggest inserting a photographic light meter into a body cavity to measure the internal light levels before, during and after the kissing process, and retaining the said light meter for some time to evaluate the background levels of lightening up. As the light meter is large and uncomfortable, and might necessitate repeated insertions, this might require assistance from a third party. Having spoken to a few people IRL (only really close friends, like the guy who sells me cans of Jolt Cola and ramen at the 7-11), I have found that a lot of people are more than willing to assist. You will probably elicit the same response; just ask people what they think of the test and many will even tell you where to shove it.
I am hopeful that this can result in an accurate way of measuring the amount of lightening up we need to engage in, and then be able to find a method that can be repeatable without the need for all that messy girl-kissing. I also hope that this test will prove more successful than our attempts to go screw ourselves, following numerous requests. I have been reliably informed by the parents of the last surviving Hydrogenaudio member (possibly a poor choice of words) of that test will be out of hospital in a few days.
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Editor, Hi-Fi Plus magazine, from cold, windy and wet Englandshire
Boys are quite interested in some particular topics.
Scroll to post #2, and continue after that.
Thanks. That gave me a belly laugh
once was enough.
...regards...tr
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