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In Reply to: RE: "Brutal disparagement?"the 1% receives. Contratsed with your gentle posting style on those other subjects? posted by Enophile on July 20, 2007 at 10:17:11
"Brutal Oppression" is what Pol Pot did. Audio tweak forums are not really capable of "brutal oppression."
I believe you're arguing with yourself, because the term clark used to describe 99 percenters was "brutal disparagement", not "brutal opression". "Brutal opression" is what the mods do. (Speaking for myself of course, and not -all- 1 percenters... The 1 percenters are just relegated to vacuous dumps, like this forum, so they don't smudge the airspace of the 99 percenters, with their song about silly tweaks...).
I'll admit, neither can I find a tweak that I'm dubious of (these days). (That's assuming you're right about "every tweak being valid to cj", because "don't forget" the fact that you haven't proven your assertion to be true. It's a typical 99 percenter/pseudo-objectivist argument, mistaken as it is, but an absence of evidence to the contrary actually does not make one's point true). I think that's because when you've heard what writing messages with a specially treated pen can do to your sound, you can no longer dismiss anything, outright. Someone says they can improve my system by telephone. Who am I to say they're wrong? Why, because no one's done it before?
Thing is, who are you to say what's "disconnected from reality"? And who's "reality". YOUR "reality"? Who are you to say what is and isn't part of universal (true) reality? You're no one to say that, and that's my point here. You're especially no one to say that, if you haven't tried those tweaks in question. For example, did you try the hand creme on the CD before mocking it? It doesn't look like it. Did you try it as I prescribed? Again, doesn't look like it. So presumably, the hand creme is "disconnected from YOUR reality", but that's because you won't make it a part of your reality, since you think you already know what reality entails.
To answer your question, the difference between cement-headed naysaying skeptics who are skeptical of every tweak, and those like me not skeptical of any, is the same difference between a closed-minded person and an open-minded person. The closed-minded person already knows a tweak is "mockworthy" and/or dismissable based on what little they know of its premise. The closed-minded adult audiophile is basically an immature twit, who never grew up from his teenage years, when he believed he knew everything about the world, and more than his parents ever did anyway. The open-minded adult is an intellectually mature adult, wise enough to know that he does not know everything and never will. Thus, he allows for the possibility of -any- tweak being a valid one that truly improves sound (not by placebo), if he has not yet heard it (because he's smart enough to know you can't and shouldn't dismiss a tweak based on whether you "think" it should work, or the credibility of the hypothesis that may or may not come with it, or even the absence of one). Otherwise, you're nothing but a lop-headed fool, making the same mistake of fools down throughout history, who dismissed advanced scientific ideas because their backward minds weren't even near the level of intellectual maturity of the researcher (and in some cases would not be for hundreds of years!).
However, if a tweak costs something, and does not come with a money-back guarantee and you can't listen to it before you buy it, that I could understand being skeptical of..... (in such a case, the decision to buy would come down to the credibility of testimonials and/or the reputation of the company; ie. you've purchased from them before). What I don't accept is skepticism of -free tweaks- (such as the hand creme) from people who've never tried it and won't in their lifetime, but nevertheless have all kinds of stupid opinions about it, which they feel is their obligation to share with the world (and which they must present in a 'fact-like format')."silence tells me secretly, everything..."
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