AudioBanter.com - View Single Post - Q. Does anyone have anything but LIES to say here?

On 20 Apr 2006 17:09:03 -0700, wrote:

Sander deWaal wrote:
said:

7. The few people who did try my tweaks and found that they do indeed
work, are stupid. Well except for Sander, who gets the lion's share of
respect because:

a) He's a working audio engineer and
b) He's one of the friendliest types on RAO, he has the "correct
RAO-approved sense of humour" and thus is well liked by all.

That's not entirely correct.
Arny doesn't like me sob
Dave Weil and Paul Packer also seem to dislike me, lately.

Of course, I have my theories about that too. The very idea that the
alternative tweaks and audio products are serious, and do in fact work
as advertised, makes an awful LOT of people here angry. Angry and
scared. Well, angry, scared and defensive. Okay, angry, scared,
defensive, and paranoid. Maybe even angry, scared, defensive, paranoid
and hostile. Just asking them to "think outside the box" brings up all
those nervous, scary feelings, and they don't much like that. Having
considered you "one of them" for so long, they feel "betrayed" (yes,
there I said it: "BETRAYED"!) by you. Betrayed because you stepped foot
outside the box, and left them inside.

...Yeah so anyway, that's my explanation of why Dave Weil and Paul
Packer don't like as much recently.

You still haven't got my message, Mr. Sound. My message is that I
don't care if the tweaks work. Having read a couple of your links,
especially the review of the strips of foil, I'm inclined to believe
there may be something in some of it, but I don't care. Why? Because
I've already spend the last 30 years trying tweaks, and one thing I
know about tweaks is that, whether they work or not, they can become a
black hole of obsession that distracts one permanently from the music.
Now what you're presenting us here is a mix of things, some of which
may or may not improve the subjective reception of sound, but most are
open ended---that is, once you've discovered, or think you've
discovered, that the little L-shaped thingies work here, then you need
to try them there, and over there, and just above the mantle-piece
and....hang on, didn't it sound a bit better sitting on the right side
of the vase rather than the left, or was that because the wife was
hoovering around my feet at the time? And that cream, how many places
can I find to smear it, and how often do I need to re-smear it, and
does it matter if it attracts dust and looks like the under-side of a
rural pick-up---is it still doing the job? I can well imagine someone
following the whole Belt regime and actually getting better perceived
sound, but the amount of fiddle-arsing before any degree of
satisfaction could be achieved, and then the wondering....wondering if
just another strip of foil here, another smear of cream there...could
it be just a bit, a tiny bit better...where does it all end, Mr.
Sound? And Sander, while you're luxuriating in all this wonderful
sound, aren't you constantly wondering what next? Will you ever be
able to rest until you've tried every possible permutation, every kind
of animal picture, until you have bits of foil flapping all over the
room, cream smeared in every crevice and all over your glasses. It's
just not a road I want to go down, thanks.

He's a thought, Mr. Sound: why don't you tell us about every tweak
you've got in your system and the improvements they've made, and we'll
decide if we want to follow your lead. And if you're not a Belt
salesman, better tell us how much it all cost as well.

See, I can write a long post too, and all with the hunt-n-peck method.