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In Reply to: RE: A million years is a long time posted by drlowmu on March 15, 2013 at 08:59:26:
It's a kind of mindless mental exercise, oxymoronically speaking.
Anyway, regarding the 200mW thing, there was a discussion recently about the current limits of Dennis's driver and Dennis himself explained that he sacrifices large-signal linearity for better sonic performance at low power. I floated the notion of 200mW being the limit of the sweet spot for this amp, to which Dennis did not disagree. Hence my comment above.
Now, you said I couldn't build an amp as good or better than Dennis's in a million years. I think it's perfectly plausible that I could, in fact, do exactly that, given so much time to experiment. So I dispute your claim to the contrary. As always, though, I would be happy to see you try to prove me wrong.
Concerning the two logical fallacies, I claim it's obvious by inspection that both are untrue. I welcome your rebuttal, but kindly request something more than proof by vigorous assertion. Precisely how do you demonstrate that a) Dennis's amps are the best in the world, and, b) you and Dennis are the final arbiters of subjective taste? I say you can't. Prove me wrong.
I believe the expression you're trying to quote is, "Those who can't do, teach." I find this to be an extraordinarily stupid and cynical saying, that is largely a reflection of the paradoxically low standing teachers have in society on account of their low salaries. This, in turn, IMHO, is due to the extremely short shrift children and their caregivers receive (e.g., pediatricians, to one of whom I am married), and also to deeply entrenched historical/religious traditions that dictate that teachers are obliged to be poor and live on handouts from their students.
All of which is completely ass-backwards in my opinion, since good teachers are some of the smartest, most hard-working, and most valuable members of society.
There is another saying, popular in the medical profession: "See one, do one, teach one." And the message there (ignoring the controversial issues of how medical training is conducted) is that you don't really understand something until you can teach it effectively to others. In my opinion, a much smarter and more relevant expression.
But what I think what you're really saying is that you're so overawed by Dennis that it's impossible to conceive of anyone matching what you perceive to be his skill and accomplishment. This, of course, is nonsense. I think what you really need to be asking yourself is why you have such a deep psychological need to attach yourself to dubious authority figures. Surely this reflects some kind of personality disorder. I would be interested to hear the details of your childhood, especially of your relationship with your father.
-Henry
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