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Rajappa Iyer writes:
(David E. Bath) writes:
I myself feel it's a totally appropriate topic for RAHE. As mentioned
by others, it's not the DBT advocates that are the ones keeping the
debate "eternal" since they have not started any of the current
threads. And there is an ongoing moratorium on injecting DBT into
threads that aren't about it or have it invoked by the con-DBT side.
That's as far as I personally am willing to go. Some of the ones who
were the most vocal against DBT discussion on the rahe-discuss list
have actually started DBT threads, so they have no one to blame but
themselves.
Would you consider expressing an opinion such as "SACD sounds great"
as inviting a discussion on DBT?
No. What was agreed upon is if the post said something like "and I
don't need a DBT to prove it", then we would allow the pro-DBT folks
to respond.
If so, I'm at a loss to understand
what exactly can be discussed without inviting DBT harangues. I mean,
it would be nice to discuss the merits and demerits of different
equipment / media without having to be constantly and repeatedly
subjected to the same old mantras (e.g. "since you did not have a
controlled test, you imagined the differences") harangues.)
That is exactly what was agreed to, a subjective discussion of
equipment will be left alone as long as they leave blind testing out
of it.
more audiophile-friendly site and give the hardcore debaters their own
(unmoderated?) site
I disagree that the group is currenly less than friendly to
audiophiles.
Well, it certainly is far less interesting to read as a result of the
preponderance of DBT threads.
As has been mentioned, go to groups.google.com and look at the
current DBT threads, 99% have been started by the anti-DBT crowd.
More importantly, it's far less useful to
read.
That's your opinion, but obviously not everyone's or there wouldn't be
any DBT threads.
If we believe that objective measurements are the entire story,
then we might as well pack it in. Most of the mass market electronics
have equal, if not better, objective measurements. Which does beg the
question: what is so high end about high end?
A good subject for a thread IMHO.
