I always wonder whether those to the next level improvements are perceived as linear or exponential by the listener. You know: is it a 3% improvement that's jaw dropping, or is it 3 orders of magnitude?
It's like the old joke about the old J.C. Whitney catalogs for gearheads back in the '60s and '70s. If you bought all of their wacky car tweaks and installed 'em all, your old jalopy would do zero to 60 in 0.3 seconds and get 12,000 miles per gallon!What amazes me are the audiophiles (e.g.on audiogon) who use every tweak in the book, upgraded power cable, cable risers, new AC outlets, power conditioner, audiophile fuses in their amps, footers under their components and on and on. And with every tweak there is a reported lowering of noise floor and removing of a veil. It's as if audiophiles systems have a virtually unlimited dynamic range and audiophiles have hearing with no limits, able to hear "lowering noise floors" into infinity. I have a feeling some of these audiophiles will have improved their acuity to such a degree they'll become bothered by the background radiation from the Big Bang. Luckily, there'll be a product to help with that
Haha, have you met fractals?What amazes me are the audiophiles (e.g.on audiogon) who use every tweak in the book, upgraded power cable, cable risers, new AC outlets, power conditioner, audiophile fuses in their amps, footers under their components and on and on. And with every tweak there is a reported lowering of noise floor and removing of a veil. It's as if audiophiles systems have a virtually unlimited dynamic range and audiophiles have hearing with no limits, able to hear "lowering noise floors" into infinity. I have a feeling some of these audiophiles will have improved their acuity to such a degree they'll become bothered by the background radiation from the Big Bang. Luckily, there'll be a product to help with that
Review is normal terminology for a moderated comment system, I wouldn't read anything else into that descriptor. I can see your "keeper" joke there (under the XVX review) but that may or may not have been the post you were referring to? I don't generally like WAF references, but I did get a chuckle out of that one.
I wasn't a wiz in science - indulged too much in contraband my last couple years of HS and first couple of college. But I was reared on Audio and Stereo Review in the late 60s and through the 70s. Can't remember when Audio went under, but I had a subscription to SR until it became little more than an advertising vehicle. Since the 90s, rags like TAS and Stereophiles seem to have dominated the audiophile market and then transitioned over to the Internet. At the very least their perspective on audio seems to inculcated the succeeding generations of audiophiles with their audiophoolery and paved the way for the SRs of the industry.
Clearly, you have never met a patent examiner.
No, I have not, but I used to have to look at medical equipment patents every once in a while and although I have to admit to being surprised in this particular instance , I did know that your $10K or whatever the price is or was would usually get you a patent.
Some patents are obviously good, and some examiners are presumably competent. However, there are enough incompetent ones that getting a nonsensical patent approved is trivial.No, I have not, but I used to have to look at medical equipment patents every once in a while and although I have to admit to being surprised in this particular instance , I did know that your $10K or whatever the price is or was would usually get you a patent.
Remember Albert Einstein was a patent examiner before he got famous.
