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"Steven Sullivan" wrote in message
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Fella wrote:
Arny Krueger wrote:

Busy day at the office, Steven? You must have wet your pants at the
opportunity to attack me, after wandering into this thread and posting
no less than three responses in one day, if not one hour. Let me guess:
you're what they call an "objectivist", right? Well, I'll give you your
little troll biscuit, since you've been so patient in waiting to post a character attack
on me. Here it is.... enjoy!

Actually, I'm an order of magnitude worse than a mere objectivst. I'm a god-damned
*scientist*.

and you.. Bugs Bunny voice *on* YOU, are a *mental case*.

In my study of "objectivist audiophilia", I too found that it seems to
differ not at all from other faith-based belief systems. Despite using
the crutch of "science", which you know little about, to pretend that
your religious beliefs are anything but.

well, I do like a good controlled study...I don;t think it's reached the level of a *religion*
though, given the proven track record...

What right do you have to criticize him? It's all about what we hear, not
numbers and measurements. I bet your system isn't revealing enough. You
probably bought it at Best Buy.

You see, I wouldn't say that. What you hear is important, but whether
you bought your system at Best Buy or not, isn't. Please refer to my
thread "Tip for Open Minded Audiophiles" to see what sort of a system I
was able to tweak and hear improvements on. If any of you gearheads in
this thread have a system that's worse than what I described, then I
truly feel sorry for you for more reasons than your ignorance about
audio and life.

Um...I'm afraid you haven't appreciated the full flavor of that particular bit of 'Best Buy'
satire. Probably because you haven't been around 'subjectivists' long enough.

Whereas I'm pretty sure you don't know anything that you speak of,
particuarly when you try to speak on behalf of others. I'm more than
aware whom I'm replying to here. If I don't do things the way you like,
that's too bad for you, isn't it.

well you have me first aligned with Arny, then with Fella, so no wonder my head's
a-spin.

To recap, Fella was slamming you and Arny comes mildly to your defense..and you slam
Arny.

That's only your opinion, which surprising as it may seem to you, isn't
even close to fact. Firstly, Arny was not "coming to my defense" at
all, in my opinion. Arny only defends Arny, unless you're a religious
so-called "objectivist", and he thinks you might help his political
agenda to brainwash everyone into thinking everything in audio sounds
the same, because DBT tests say it is so. Then he may defend you as
well. If you don't contradict him, at which point he'll stab you in the
back and leave you to bleed on the ground.

You remind me of one of those old toys, were one pulls a string, and a gush of
words comes out. (I suspect now they;re all digital.)

Anyway, if Arny, or anhyone in the 'virtual' world, were to 'stab' me, I think I'd survive.
Somehow.

Secondly, I am not a person who needs Arny, or anyone, to defend myself. I can do so fine
on my own, regardless of what you think. As for "slamming Arny", well I sure hope so. But I
doubt I could ever hit him hard enough to knock some sense into him. Ten years of people
trying to do that gives little hope that this psychopath troll friend of yours will ever
come to realize how abhorrent and misguided he is. Not just about audio, but basically,
about everything.

You are quite the poppin' little firecracker, I'll grant you that.

All part of your dastardly plot to make subjectivists look nutty, no doubt.

Yea, "no doubt", kook. Since you want to insist on dividing everyone
here up into little "subjectivist" and "objectivist" groups, well you
BOTH look nutty to me. You would to any sane, rational individual.
Particuarly the way you nutbaskets prattle on about paranoid conspiracy
"plots" that you think every one in the world around you is engaging
in. My God how small your worlds are. Here I thought it was just your
mind.

Excuse me, did you say something? I'm listening to The Flaming Lips in surround at the
moment, which is distracting. Anyway, no, I'm not REALLY proposing a conspiracy --
that was tongue in cheek. In fact, you've convinced me that you're a *sincere* mental case.

I never said anything about "curtains effecting sound". That is simply ridiculous.
I didn't say anything about "veils" either. Have you looked into the effect of
veils on a speaker?

No, have you? Today, I happen to be looking at the effect of panty hose
on a speaker....

Personally I much prefer to study their effect on women's legs. But to each his own

Curtains in another room, if that room is open to the listening area, could
conceivably affect the sound....I don't think anyone would dispute that.

Okay, I'm disputing it. Please explain how pinning the corner of a curtain that is open to
the listening area, could conceivably affect the sound.

But I said nothing about 'pinning the corner or a curtain' etc. I simply said the presence of
curtains in a space open to the listening area, could affect the sound. And that has to do
the potential high-frequency absorptive properties of curtains, nothing more. Much would
depend of course just how the space relates to the listening area, as well as the placement
and thickness of the curtains. Please consult Everest's text on acoustics if you need to know
more.

Don't just give me your personal opinion, that's worthless on this opinion group. Please
provide peer-reviewed substantiations for your claim; JAES would be acceptable, and perhaps
links to articles by respected authors that support your assertion. I don't want to see any
of this "anecdotal evidence" crap, you understand.

I think I need to put on the Bugs Bunny voice again...

Now, what if we embroider those curtains with animal figures? Food for thought.

My guess is that you would probably just have curtains embroidered with animal figures. I
could give you some other ways to tweak your curtains that may be more effective than
embroidering animals on it, but you know... "pearls before swine", and all that. The problem
is, all you gearheads ever do is talk about audio and pretend to think about it. No
kidding you know so little of any merit about it, and you never learn anything new.

An inability to either recognize a joke is a a hallmark of a sociopath, do you
realize that?

The rest? LOL! Prove your "LOL", Mr. Krueger. Where's your carefully
controlled DBT evidence that the tweaks don't work? By standard scientific
practice, the burden's on you to prove that they do, alas.

Alas no, the burden is on he who wishes to prove the claim.

So, if I claim that purple unicorns romp nightly in my back yard I'm OK as long as I don't
wish to *prove* that. No doubt some will find that news heartening.

A *hundred* people a day? You're not counting the voices in your head, are you?

So you now you think that Kreuger is hearing voices in my head, besides
the ones in his head, and that I'm part of a vast conspiracy plot to
create divisions among subjectivists and objectivists on this
newsgroup? LOL! Nice rant, kook. I guess this is what happens to people
when you stick around here too long.

Er, no, the 'hundred a day' quip was directed at you. Pardon if that was unclear.

not work to improve your perception of sound quality. But if you want a
little guidance to get you started... you don't even need to move the
plant. Just slip a blank piece of blue paper under the pot.

Thanks. I wasn;t planning to move the plant, but the blue paper mod is priceless.

I suspect that talking to the plant may also help.

Whereas I suspect you also said that to be sarcastic, and inadvertenly
prove how ignorant you are. Plants need carbon dioxide to grow, and
when you talk to a plant, you breath on it, giving it an extra infusion
of CO2.

Oh, so you *can* recognize sarcasm! Well, I guess there's always hope.

But how would a CO2 boost for the plantae improve the sound? Wouldn't I be better off having
plants scattered about the room, to serve as sound diffusors?