"Dennis Moore" wrote in message news:xmg0b.149774$Oz4.41175@rwcrnsc54...
Do you think the name of RAHE could be changed to
rec.audio.dbt?

Looks like this wasn't an original idea of yours. :-)


Sure seems that by far the great bulk of the messages end
up about dbt's. You could look with that 95% confidence
you will mostly be reading about dbts. Pro's and cons, believers
and non-believers etc. etc.

Since the beginning of August, according to Google, there have been
197 posts that contained any of the terms ABX, DBT, or blind. There
have been 603 posts that contained the word "the." This surely
understates the incidence of posts on the topic, but I think a safe
estimate would be that if you picked a random post, you'd have only
about a 50-50 chance of running into one on the Great Debate in any of
its forms.

Furthermore, these posts are concentrated in very few threads. I count
fewer than 15 of the last 100 active threads that, based on their
subject line (and my recollection of them) would have discussed this
topic at any length.

That's no accident. RAHE does have a rule against posts on this
subject in threads otherwise unrelated to it. Now, that's a tough line
to draw, but it clearly has an effect.

Finally, take a look at those offending threads. For the most part,
they are started by the very people who object to all this
objectivism. Others are started by people asking "Why biwire?" and
"Can amp stands make a difference?" Surely the results of blind tests
on those very questions are a legitimate response.


How about it? Would be more honest than calling it high-end
when the practices of the high-end industry are regularly
denigrated by posters here.

Who says the high-end industry should own the term "high end"? This
newsgroup is about optimizing the reproduction of sound, especially
music. To the extent that members of the self-styled "high-end"
industry produce less than optimal products, shouldn't they be
denigrated? Or would you prefer that posts only be allowed by industry
shills? By the way, this group is currently open to posts *defending*
the high-end industry. Perhaps you'd like to step up to the plate.

And the moderators don't seem to
be high-enders for the most part.

[Moderator's Note: That's news to us. RD]

A simple change in the FAQ could make it all clear too.

Seriously,
Dennis

Get serious.

bob