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In Reply to: RE: obsession(s) with tiny differenences... posted by Jim Dowdy on January 29, 2015 at 13:31:29
Them's fighting words. I don't like you either.I used to enjoy talking here about tube audio design. It was fun to share thoughts and ideas with like-minded people. It stopped being fun when the discussion got taken over by a small number of people with personality disorders.
Like I said, either you see it or you don't.
Frankly, I don't give a damn about life-changing schematics. There are no life-changing schematics. Every meaningful tube amp schematic has been drawn; every combination of component values has been tried. It's all retrospective now.
The problem, IMHO, is that a bunch of self-important assholes have decided that their kindergarten playground shovel-diggings somehow equate to Life-Changing Art. It's crap.
Learning engineering changed my life. Learning to play piano changed my life. Sitting on the couch with my chin on my fist listening intently and seriously for the subtle differences in transient inner detail has no appeal to me.
OK, maybe it's fun for some people. I used to enjoy it, too, until I got sick of it. Let's just not pretend being a golden-ear is something profound. It ain't.
Beethoven is profound. Chopin is profound. Schubert is profound. (Vivaldi is... meh.)
Tweaking is not profound.
-Henry
Edits: 01/29/15Follow Ups:
So...once again, you're admitting that you have no schematics of value to post.
I have many, many things of value to post here that would help people understand and enjoy their Tube DIY hobby better, and help them to create better (though probably not original) schematics.However, the things I have to say aren't necessarily simple or easy to understand, and I don't feel welcome discussing them here. Thanks largely in party to people like you and Jeff.
Overall, I have realized that "high-end audio," which was always pompous and self-aggrandizing, has become stagnant and, increasingly, musically irrelevant.
I still respect people like Stephen R, Dave Slagle, and many others, who pursue their high-end hobby with intelligence and clarity of mind. I may have grown tired of the pretense of the "high-end", but I have nothing against people for whom this remains a compelling pastime.
I will always feel profound disdain for those who choose to be willfully ignorant, and who try to justify it to themselves by attacking others.
-Henry
Edits: 01/29/15
Yah - perhaps one day we will all be able to comprehend your magnificence.
It's not about me.
There is a universe of knowledge and ideas out there. You can go through your life feeling proud of how you roll caps and torture innocent chokes and transformers with triple strands of Kimber TCSS. Or you can open your eyes and at least see the possibilities of what those ideas can tell you.
The problem is, once you realize how much there is to know, it tends to make you feel small and humble, not proud.
Audio is inconsequential, but living in a world controlled by people who take pride in their ignorance of truly important things is painful, indeed.
-Henry
Its all about you.
Truer words were never said up here.
Jeff
Brilliant. Just brilliant. Cripes.
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