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Do the poll then.
It's actually very interesting to me. Just what is it that gets in the way of us hearing that "extra realism we seem to be missing". If you are after that extra realism, there's little sense in chasing transparency when the source itself cannot account for the missing realism. Hard to say where the problem lies (playback or capture or both), but certainly something is missing. We listen to music (suspension of disbelief) much like we do when we watch movies on a TV. It works good enough, but to chase transparency with regard to it seems to be a very small half-measure.
dkinric
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So, like virtual reality will be a big leap for video realism, we need a similar leap for audio. Audio VR.
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whatever happened to him?
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how about the analog amp section?
It is, and if you haven't studied it (and clearly you haven't), it will be very worthwhile to do so. Then you can actually grasp how truly impressive it is.
It's for your benefit, not mine.
Robin L
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Looks like Corey Greenberg might have run into some ethics issues when he was reviewing gear for the Today show while getting paid by Apple to tout their products elsewhere. He also touted their products on-air at NBC. This was around 2005. He is still registered at the Hoffman forum but hasn't been active thee since 2018. He was a fun writer but he also enabled other audio writers to attempt to go gonzo by virtue of his example The Gonzo element appears mostly to function as a hyperbole multiplier.
A quote from Stereophile's archives [2009]:
Corey had a superb talent both as a writer and a listener. When I first encountered him, in 1989, he was the house engineer at a radio station in Austin, TX. He wrote for Stereophile from 1990 through 1994, after which he joined Home Theater Technology, the predecessor to Home Theater magazine. He flared brightly there, then crashed and burned in spectacular fashion, trashing, I am told, the magazine's viewing room in the process. He had a column in Stereo Review for a while and promoted the magazine on speaking tours before becoming the editor of Audio magazine for its final 18 months.
After the Today Show's gadget guru was fired for cocaine abuse, Corey took over that gig, and did very well at it, until it was discovered that he was taking kickbacks from companies to promote their products on the TV show.
You can still find his writings at http://shaveblog.com/ .
John Atkinson
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Corey Greenberg Revisited - And You Think Gordon Holt Was Funny?? | Stereophile.com
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If you are equating the second law of thermodynamics with time travel (as in your earlier post) then it would well behoove you to read the first book in the Feynman series. It is well-written and provides a great introduction to basic physics that pretty much anyone can grasp.
As for @SIY you might want to look him up before calling him a "salesman".
Helicopter
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Indeed Helicopter! We are honoured to have the likes of JJ, SIY and ScottW (for example) here to converse with. I am not fit to stand in their shadow (although I was once honoured by SW as he asked me to review one of his mic preamp articles for Linear Audio). To see any of them called a "salesman" by a random internet person with no relevant or equivalent decades of background and experience is egregious (and if you do have such decades of background and experience, then out yourself). These people have developed much of the basis (DSP algorithms, chips and IC design and amplifier design) that we rely on for high-quality audio. While I think all of them would brush such a ridiculous slight off, posters here should have a better understanding of who they are dealing with. Not everyone here is a random internet nobody...He might want to look @SIY up before trying further to outfox him too.
To be honest, I had not looked up SIY until just now, but I could tell he was an expert by what he says and how he says it.
Appeal to authority is a common cognitive bias, after all.
But we are indeed honored to be able to learn from, chat with, and even argue with people whose talents and experiences we revere.
The Internet, which gives random bozos like me a voice, also makes it possible to get to know people who are not random bozos. That coin has two sides. But we have to make sure that the tarnish on the random bozo side doesn't bleed around to the shiny side.
Rick "who does not participate in forums where he is not a random bozo--too much like work" Denney
Appeal to authority is a common cognitive bias, after all.
But we are indeed honored to be able to learn from, chat with, and even argue with people whose talents and experiences we revere.
The Internet, which gives random bozos like me a voice, also makes it possible to get to know people who are not random bozos. That coin has two sides. But we have to make sure that the tarnish on the random bozo side doesn't bleed around to the shiny side.
Rick "who does not participate in forums where he is not a random bozo--too much like work" Denney
Raindog123
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dkinric
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Click on their name to go to their member profile, then the "about" tab. For those that have filled it out. Also good to see listings of their activity and other posts.
I find it pretty funny when a newer member starts to argue with someone who is a published expert or has extensive experience going back decades in the field. ASR is not your usual audio forum, we are lucky to have such experts among us.
I find it pretty funny when a newer member starts to argue with someone who is a published expert or has extensive experience going back decades in the field. ASR is not your usual audio forum, we are lucky to have such experts among us.
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Raindog123
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...tried "Raindog123/about" as a test... absolutely nothing impressive... a random internet joe shmoe from Florida.
Florida Man is a major internet sensation. Wear it proudly!
Raindog123
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Perhaps it is you who should "behoove" yourself to open your mind before you give unsolicited advice to others. But its irrelevant anyway, because neither physics nor time travel had anything to do with the discussion whatsoever at any point.
http://cosmology.com/PopovicConsciousTime.pdf
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...un-afoul-of-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/04/03/599122774/time-travel-with-your-fridge
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q...l-a-violation-of-second-law-of-thermodynamics
dkinric
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I have lost the ability to tell if someone is intentionally trolling or unintentionally ignorant
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