In Reply to: the "what's the best . . ." question and how to conquer it posted by Hi-Fi Nut on May 13, 2012 at 01:40:29:
Um why is that a bad question? Things are often better and worse and that would lead to a best for numerous items. Certainly for items that don't require subjective preferences.
You might have to add qualifiers - What is the best printer. Maybe becomes what is the best all-around home user printer in terms of price per page, speed, accuracy, and photo quality.
Certainly that is a fair question and they measure printers for all of those aspects. Way back when I was buying a printer it turned out that Canon won on all points because when you ran out of yellow you could pay $10 and replace just the yellow tank. The HP if you ran out of Yellow (all the colours were in one tank) the whole tank had to be replaced. The Canon's speed was more than 2X the speed of the HP and was deemed to have better photo and print quality. So in that price class - at that time the Canon murdered everything else. Tomes change - could be the complete opposite now and some brand I've never heard of is kicking butt. Or maybe Canon is still the top.
Telescopes I know little about but presumably quality of image and how far away you can see through it would be things that can objectively measure. Hubble?
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- RE: the "what's the best . . ." question and how to conquer it - RGA 21:28:08 05/13/12 (6)
- RE: the "what's the best . . ." question and how to conquer it - Hi-Fi Nut 01:52:16 05/14/12 (5)
- RE: the "what's the best . . ." question and how to conquer it - soulfood 04:46:06 05/14/12 (4)
- RE: and the fan(s) of fellow-three-sox kick in again (no text) - Hi-Fi Nut 06:06:19 05/15/12 (3)
- RE: "lying" is not up to your mentor's standards. (no text) - Hi-Fi Nut 06:09:04 05/16/12 (1)
- No matter how often you say it, it's still unsubstantiated lying. -nt - soulfood 07:25:58 05/16/12 (0)
- You would not need such diversions if you'd just stop lying. -nt - soulfood 14:24:24 05/15/12 (0)