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In Reply to: Re: How Disappointing! posted by Oxia on April 1, 2007 at 17:31:27:
Dear Oxia,You can off course choose to put that interpretation into what I said which perhaps goes to show that you have as much of an agenda as you accuse me of.
Believe it or not, but my main interest in discussions like this is to try to bring about some balance, by pointing out what separates genuine and fundamental scientific progress and advance of relevant knowledge and the more superficial achievements that are based more on commercial prowess, advertising and hype and in this regard the people I mention contributed to a real expansion of the understanding and knowledge base in acoustics and the people theaudiohobby mentions either used or ignored this knowledge to commercial ends.
My hope is that some of the readers will Google some of the names I brought up and perhaps read up on what they contributed and then draw the same conclusion as I.
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My agenda, Mr Qvortrup, is to point out that you are needlessly and unfairly impugning the reputations and achievements of John Dunlavy, Peter Walker, and Joe D'Appolito, in order to play a childish game of one-upmanship with one of the inmates. What exactly was the point of that? To prove that you worship better idols than theaudiohobby? You could have taken the highroad and discussed the merits of Peter Snell's applied theories on their own, but instead you chose to have a pissing match and you dragged the names of Dunlavy, Walker and D'Appolito into it. If you want to continue the discussion on this level, that's your choice. Go ahead and please yourself. I'm done with you.
Dear Oxia,Firstly, I did not drag either of the people you mention into this discussion theaudiohobby did, and I then challenged him to give some examples that were more deserving.
Secondly, if politely pointing out the fact that there are more fundamental and important scientific aspects of acoustics than what the three designers have contributed is a pissing match, then what does that make your comments?
It may come as a terrible shock to you, but I have actually very little to prove here, other than realign and attempt to bring balance to the discussion.
So perhaps rather than accusing and being negative, it might be appropriate if you "took the high road" as you call it and put forward some real arguments for why they should feel insulted by my comments, a short list of achievements should suffice, we can then discuss further.
I am equally happy to discuss Peter Snell's achievements given the right opportunity and an environment where the respondents do not read all manners of political correctness and subliminal implied criticisms into what I say.
Sincerely,
Peter Qvortrup
I suppose that you think your dog is bigger than mine too.
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