Not a disagreement over headphones. I do not know, do not care, and probably could not figure out what headphones the folks at SBAF believe are the best.I agree with this, disagreeing over headphones doesn't justify this kind of revenge.
And it never goes away.Stuff you post on the internet is real and has real consequences.
Past statements can always be disavowed, and I think we should be forgiving if someone decides to stop behaving abusively.And it never goes away.
I was referring to the HR dept trawl you were talking about, someones current employer might not care, or check, but if you apply in the future to the sort of large company that does care, and does check things you said years ago might stop you getting a job.Past statements can always be disavowed, and I think we should be forgiving if someone decides to stop behaving abusively.
All issues with personal attacks and just plain meanness aside, this is the kind of thing that bothers me about SBAF.
What Marv states is that beyond a certain point, standard audio measurement metrics are mostly irrelevant. At some level, I agree with this, we've long since figured out and exceeded the minimum test standards by which a bit of audio kit can be heard to be coloring or degrading sound reproduction. What he implies is that only human ears can hear these ineffable (time domain, spatial cues, microdynamics) improvements that anachronistic architectures like R+2R can provide better than D\S. It is with no trace of irony that he claims that there are no extant methodologies for measuring and documenting these qualities, while simultaneously shitting on ABX and anyone who is skeptical of his assertions. He's got good cronies in Stoddard & Moffat who simply smile, nod and wink knowingly when that community is raving about the plankton that the latest Schiit box has resurrected from their FLAC files, but never go so far as to really display any theoretical or empirical proofs of what they do better. Not saying Schiit is shit, they have gear that sounds good, too, but if you wanna say "it's better", some substantial whitherto's and whyfor's are in order.
I guess what I'm saying is that they come off as all science-based and rational at first, but if you scratch their surface, it's the same thing as all the other audiophoolery sites, minus the burden of slobbering on the highest-cost audio jewelry. Still, challenge their claims and they'll get mean.
Did you ignore that they have history over harassing people who like stuff they hate?. Why are you defending a known creep and telling others to shut up?,.
It’s ultimately an epistemological debate. It’s completely fine to disagree, even strongly. .
It is not doxxing if the behavior is public. Purr1n does not seem to care if people know about the ugliness of his online behavior.just going to point out that I’m not particularly willing to go as far as doxxing, just cant do it.
Technically, you're correct, the issue I mentioned is epistemological in nature, and after hearing Rob Watts give a few lectures, the degreed engineering credential does not impress me as it once did. I try to avoid epistemological debates because they are often unproductive and not well supported by data, in my experience, unless those in the debate are noted experts in a field and packing along a sheaf of research results.
As our dear departed Hitchens was so fond of stating, "that which can be asserted without evidence can be discarded without evidence", especially when the person making the claim is also a jerk. In that scenario, avoidance of the jerk is my preferred response, and I'll even go out of my way to warn others that the jerk is, well, a jerk.
His forum is declining in popularity, and the best thing it can do is fade into internet oblivion.
Hitchens was a jerk, too.
I remember two things in early Win (3x through 98x) iterations that frustrated me most: sound, and crashing. Because of the latter, I moved to OS/2 (circa Win 3x), and then Linux (crica 1990). OS/2 was something of a bizarre hybrid, and pretty hardware intensive for the times, but I never encountered sound problems with it. That I can remember. Linux didn't crash often, but sound was still a problem. I mean, just getting sound. Back then I remember how installing Nvidia drivers (dropping to console, unpacking a tar, editing the config file, and all the rest) was less frustrating than sound. Sometimes I think sound and computers are not made for each other.Atomicbob for example wrote this whole thing about someone not understanding the windows audio stack and hence, testing using it, rather than a bit-exact interface. Little he knew that my team at Microsoft wrote the entire audio stack in Windows.
Yep, and keyboard cowboys will say things that would get them knocked on their asses in person.Face to face communication is very different to that experienced on forums. The latter is somewhat impersonal and interpersonal nuances are lost.
Let's not single out SBAF, the internet is full of audio sites that don't know their butts from a hole in the ground. Head-Fi has a Sound Science header, just don't get too objective on it, along with it's DBT censored Cable header. Things are the same at WBF and it's "Measure Based" header, don't get too objective there and I won't go into it's history or Amir's and mine there. Not much better at CA/AS, put on the gloves if you want to talk science there. LOLWe at ASR don't take it all as seriously as purr1n/Merv/Marv does, and we don't hurl abuse all over the internet. I just find it very odd that purr1n/Merv/Marv feels comfortable posting this stuff under essentially his own name.
Yep, and keyboard cowboys will say things that would get them knocked on their asses in person.
Then there is the tone and style. We are raised to more or less know how to conduct ourselves in person in public. Such education does not exist for online behavior. Parents did not teach their children what to say and how to say because they did not live online. Nor do they read what their children are posting. When insulted personally, I often as the person to print their post and show it to their spouse or mother. None would remotely do so. I on the other hand, post as if my family and friends and co-workers read my posts. Well, it turns out they do! So best to act professionally at all times.
You've learned a lot since then.There was only two of us here at the time mind ha ha