[keithr]

Patrick Turner wrote:

Andre Jute wrote:
Patrick Turner, and outspoken Australian, wrote:
Being of sound mind
because I do try to keep an open mind I would hazard a guess that not
all of what "ultrafidelista" might hold as the truth and nothing but the
truth is in fact not the truth at all and might be just a series of
maybe maybe statements.
Yo, Patrick, you're making the same mistake I made when I first ran
into the ultrafidelista: quoting science at them. You'd do better to
quote the Bible at them; have a greater effect, very likely. The hard
core ultrafidelista knows what he believes in and you're wasting your
breath explaining the truth to him.


Indeed you are corect. The Ultra-F believes his own bull****.

So do those who cannot accept that evolution was and remains a fine a
way to some kind of god to allow species to develop.

The Bible teaches us a lot, or should, so that we are wiser, regardless
of or moral disposition.

It doesn't have to be technically correct.

Wheras the Radiotron Designer's Handbook can have zero global
moralizing, and be nothing but technical.
Also, it to should make a reader wiser, no matter what his technical
disposition is.

I know guys who'd never ever allow their personal selves or their pet
audio theories to be tested for being either true or false, or somewhere
in between.
They are such bores, and I waste no time talking to them.
One in particular believes an AB test only tests the test, and never
tests the listener or the gear.

He likes the gear I make, but it was all developed using leap-frog
methods of quality comparisons; if latest speaker A sounds better than
older speaker B with some varied use, and usually because measurements
confirm it, and other more tolerant listeners confirm it, then there is
a need to adopt the new and throw out the old idea unless it can be
improved. Sometimes you cannot. There isn't any chance you can make a
cheap $2 Chinese made speaker driver with appallingly large magnetic
clearances sound as detailed and clear as something good from SEAS in
Norway. I know, because I tried that one. Only so much can be achieved
with crossover design.
And I find people who say they know it all usually know very little. I
don't care if some don't like me, and I'm happy who I ain't.

Were you out last Monday or just too busy to pick up the phone?

Keith