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In Reply to: you missed the point entirely posted by beach cruiser on August 6, 2022 at 20:33:10:
"my comprehension was that the grundman quote was a simple contrary opinion to the other engineers at mofi who supported the tech. an opinion is neither right nor wrong, it is just an opinion."
No, that is simply wrong. Objective facts are not a matter of opinion. And the idea that different opinions on objective facts deserve equal consideration is very problematic, antiscientific and in many cases just plain destructive. There are people who hold the opinion that the fact that the earth is round, the fact that life evolved or the fact that we are in the midst of climate change created by human polution are not true. But those opinions are wrong and are not deserving of equal standing to the actual facts. They are myths. Myths promoted as having equal validity as the facts are destructive. The idea that scientific facts and myths should be treated as equal because everyone is entitiled to an opinion is a terrible idea.This runs completely contrary to the very principles of science that lifted us out of the dark ages.
"Newspapers often develop a story in that way, to better inform the reader. Grundman is a well credentialed authority, so his opinion is worth including , in contrast to the other statements."
I never said the article should not have included Grundman's incorrect assertion of fact about the audibility of a digital step. I said his assertion is wrong. The problem I have with his assertion is that it gives creedence to an anti-scientific position that is at the root of a mythology about vinyl sound quality. Were it not for that very audio myth that he is helping to promote this very contraversy would not even be a contraversy.
"one can contradict an opinion with facts, or support it in the same way."
No, not really. One can contradict incorrect assertions of fact with facts. Opinions are inarguable. Facts are not subject to opinion.
"I think you blew it all out of proportion . the man is entitled to his opinion."
Yes, Bernie is entitled to his opinion. Opinions like a tube cutting amp sounds subjectively better than a solid state one or a little EQ on this or that recording will sound subjectively better than none. Promoting audio myths as facts is not the same thing. Bernie is entitled to *believe* audio myths and he is entitled to express his beleifs in those audio myths. BUT...those beliefs do not deserve to be treated as equally valid as actual objective facts. They should be called out for what they are, audio myths.
And that is what I did. And that is the point you missed.
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- On the contrary, you missed **my* point entirely - Analog Scott 23:27:20 08/06/22 (0)
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