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respice finem
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The obvious sarcasm aside, to answer the thread question: Yes, sometimes I'm, well, disappointed, seeing "moderately terrible" parameters of stuff. Some manufacturers probably think that we still live in the 80s and they can gaslight everyone with "audiophile lyrics", instead of selling proper hardware. Doesn't happen often, but happens. Thus, we shouldn't be too optimistic, thinking that new gear is generally audibly transparent. Stuff happens all the time, and that's why independent measurements are so important.
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Amir’s poetry game is pretty weak.
No Stephenson’s veilometer measurements for number of veils lifted.
no equipment rundown list and cable name checks. He could be doing anything in that room for all we know without an equipment list.
No early 60s mono jazz mofi reissue seals broken so it’s basically impossible to tell how Clark Terry sounds in his room.
No details on how 1970s singer songwriters sound on the equipment.
No stories about buying an original copy of Vandergraf Generators 3rd album and how this is now his reference for equipment tests.
Just some squiggly lines on a graph and a panther. Hopeless
No Stephenson’s veilometer measurements for number of veils lifted.
no equipment rundown list and cable name checks. He could be doing anything in that room for all we know without an equipment list.
No early 60s mono jazz mofi reissue seals broken so it’s basically impossible to tell how Clark Terry sounds in his room.
No details on how 1970s singer songwriters sound on the equipment.
No stories about buying an original copy of Vandergraf Generators 3rd album and how this is now his reference for equipment tests.
Just some squiggly lines on a graph and a panther. Hopeless
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And a decapitated panther more often than not 
kemmler3D
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I'd say audio subjectivism that rejects measurements counts as belief in the paranormal... They constantly assert they're hearing things that either can't be detected by the most sensitive equipment, or are actually precluded by how the equipment works. It's a durable belief in something science says is basically out of the question... More mundane, but not so different than asserting things about Bigfoot or ghosts.
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This thread is getting progressively sillier
Steve Huff and many of his peers have found alternatives to modern measuring devices
Steve Huff and many of his peers have found alternatives to modern measuring devices
No....and Reddit
Reddit has no overarching policy about audio posts.
Everything there comes down to who moderates a particular subreddit.
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I didn't know that term until I read Geoff Emereck's book (Beatles engineer)... I've never heard anyone the U.S. using the phrase that way...
A new boss came-in and they had a meeting where he told everybody they would have to shape-up and get serious, etc. One employee stood-up, and said, "We're all 100% behind you, sir", then he bowed. Emereck said, "The boss didn't know he was taking a piss" and he knew then that the boss was an idiot.From what I recall, the new boss didn't last very long.
IME with Brits it's generally phrased 'taking the piss'
No occult quantum physical encantations à la Geoff Kait
No prattish invocation of PRAT à la Martin Collums
No warning against the demonic audio effects of having any metallic objects in listening room, à la Enid Lumley
No being a invincibly smug ignoramus à la the entire TAS roster.
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Fish in a barrel. Steve Huff is too derpy and linkbait even for the Steve Hoffman forum, where any mention is likely to bring up Huff’s paranormal channel (1.6 million subscribers), where his most recent video features his conversation with his dead dog.
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Yes, please don't confuse 'Take the piss' (as in 'take the piss out of') with a 'Take a piss', that probably won't end well!
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Nor 'pissing in the wind' / 'pissing into the wind'
This thread is summed up by these
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Sar-Cas-AH-me-ter.
Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
It’s fun to tease self-appointed reviewer goofballs like Steve Huff but I gave up with it. Hifi is an industry where people don’t want to let the facts get in the way of a good story. If it’s not hifi it would be something else.
olds1959special
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Yes, now I'll go back to Steve Guttenberg and cheapaudioman reviews.
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holy shitpost batman
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