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Logan Nolag
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The RME forum is amazingly good. Very knowledge about employees/principals from RME often participate. Benchmark also participates on forums and has an amazingly high level of technical expertise.
Contrast RME and Benchmark with Denon/Marantz. It's doubtful that D/M has anyone in the U.S. who actually understands their AVR's/AVP's at the technical level. Certainly D/M doesn't participate on any forums.
Note on the following: I live in the United States.
The lack of measurements in most audio reviews in the U.S. is most likely due to typical American's being too ignorant in the area the technology to understand the measurements, to disinterested to learn. and hostile to technology because they feel insecure due to their ignorance.
The difference between the German site and sites like this one or especially the AVSForum is striking. The general level of technical knowledge shown on the German sites is much higher. This higher level of knowledge in Germany reflects the significant difference in the levels of STEM education and knowledge between the two countries. The U.S. is horrible in this regard.
Often people who don't understand something like to criticize those who have mastered a subject. They like to pull the others down. Instead of working to obtain the same knowledge they try to imply faults with others who know more than they do. They also feel insecure. Clearly your reference to "German" fits this description.
A very representative example of the amazing level of technology ignorance in the U.S. was a sorry small piece of a discussion I had with a Junior in High School recently. Of course this was in California that must have the worst schools in the U.S. Hopefully other states are better.
Somehow the year 1948 came up in a discussion. I noted that 1948 was the year the transistor was invented by three guys a Bell Labs who won the Nobel Prize for their efforts. This person said what is a transistor? Not what does it do or the like. This person is an "A" student in high school and yet hadn't heard the word transistor. Another ignorant technophobe in the making.
Mastering the use of a smartphone does not imply any short of technical knowledge.
Oh I can assure you that California definitely does not have the worst schools in the country. In fact I haven't looked it up but I would be surprised if they weren't near the top. I live in GA and some of the people here are very stupid. For example I once met someone who didn't know what the word "instead" meant and English was supposedly their first language.