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Perspective, how about this:

Posted by kuribo (A) on December 8, 2003 at 01:04:02

In Reply to: Re: Why are you declining to participate, John Curl? posted by john curl on December 7, 2003 at 23:09:17:

I'm not the one running around making claims like "your cables are full of micro diodes" and "cables exhibit measureable distortion", which have not been verified by anyone, either experimentally or theoretically. You are on your own here, and it is up to you to either back it up incontrovertibly, or back off.

You continue to insult ("teenager?" I wish!), obfuscate (just what the hell does my testing experience have to do with YOUR results, huh?), and avoid the issue by babbling on about old cables and god knows what. You want to control your own measurements? I don't recall anyone offering to run your equipment for you...

I know the scientific method as practiced by competent scientists and engineers when I see it, and more to the point in this case, when I don't. You not only show a gross inability to comprehend this basis of scientific inquiry, but you call into question your own credibilty by running away from an opportunity presented to you to put your money where your mouth is. Smacks of cowardice, and gives the impression that you are too small to risk the possibility of error.

You have blustered, insulted, attacked people's education, and generally been a bore and a bully when others have questioned the basis of your measurements. Now, when actually confronted by the results of someone you can't dismiss because he hasn't a college diploma, and has used equipment a generation ahead of yours, you are going to run and hide? Reminds me the scene where Toto finds the real wizard....

Too bad you have invested so much of your ego in this that you can't face up to the possibility that you might be proved wrong, because no matter what the truth of the matter is, it would have helped advance the state of knowledge, and that is something that all music lovers would have benefited by.

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