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  1. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    +2. Pseudo-intellectualism and intellectual dishonesty in full bloom, to state nothing of the lack of neutral moderation.
  2. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    You're clearly ignoring my question and answering one(s) I never asked. I won't ask you the question again. I wish you the best of luck and success in your endeavors.
  3. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    I understand to a large extent the degree of junk science which exists since I deal with it on a daily basis in my livelihood. As I think you readily acknowledge, however, none of that invalidates the scientific method, to state nothing of the overwhelming abundance of, shall we say, *non-junk*...
  4. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    *If" I am supposed to read each and every post here as just an opinion, sure. Micro, I enjoy reading your posts but in this one instance, well... I'll just leave it alone.
  5. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    No one with intellectual honesty stated it did not apply. It is indeed axiomatic with the scientific community, at least those with an understanding of the scientific method and intellectual honesty. Why should what I stated not apply at least equally to an audiophile? I would suggest an...
  6. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    lol:D
  7. Ron Party

    Axpona 2017 - Who's Going??

    Yup. So, so true. Great products from a great guy.
  8. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    How bout we start a friendly WBF poll/wager right now: for which team will Blake be playing next year? Winner gets a 20th anniversary edition of:
  9. Ron Party

    Comparative Listening Tests

    Around 20 percent of the people on the planet believe the sun revolves around the earth. A substantial number of people are climate change deniers. Statistics are a funny thing. So is circumstantial evidence. But the scientific method demands higher rigor. Falsifiability is sorely absent...
  10. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    Phil, fly out here to the home of the Dubs and watch with the whole city as they march toward their second trophy in 3 years.:cool: Oh, and Draymond. My man Dray Dray. LOL. He's the best defensive player in the league by a country mile. Who else can not just guard but stop D. Lill and...
  11. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    For an extremely worthy interruption of what seems to be the inevitable decider in the best 2 out of 3 finals between the Dubs and Cavs, please read this fantastic article: https://www.si.com/nba/2017/04/06/monty-williams-wife-ingrid-family-tragedy-spurs-thunder-pelicans
  12. Ron Party

    Summer Concert For Steve

    Steve, your name's written all over this summer concert at Dodger Stadium:
  13. Ron Party

    Jimmy Page on EQ

    Wait a sec. Discussion about drummers and no mention of Ginger Baker? And for more contemporary ones, Mike Portnoy; seen him live a few times and his chops are up there with the best, no doubt.
  14. Ron Party

    Why do high up-sampling/ over-sampling rates (DSD,) kill PRAT and aliveness of music? Any ideas?

    Caesar, you're not alone in your thoughts/opinions on DSD. I've posted the following before. It is on point. Around the time of the inception of WBF I attended a demo at my local high end audio shop in Berkeley. In attendance, amongst others, were Yuki Sugiura of Sony, a genuinely nice...
  15. Ron Party

    Doctor's Orders-Part Two-The New Listening Room Of Steve Williams

    I suppose terrible is in the eyes/ears of the beholder. I worked a Lou Reed show at The Warfield in San Francisco on Halloween some 30+ years ago. He killed it.
  16. Ron Party

    How does one get "trained" ears?

    So I'm reading the title of this thread and am thinking back to my trip to Kenya and Tanzania almost 30 years ago and I've decided <<<THIS>>> is what is meant by *training* one's ear. Any WBF members have *trained ears*? Does the OP mean something else? Well then. Can someone tell me...
  17. Ron Party

    Doctor's Orders-Part Two-The New Listening Room Of Steve Williams

    I just looked at the pix of the racks/stands in your room. Wonderful. Big step up from what you had in Danville. Hope they give you tremendous joy.
  18. Ron Party

    Toward a Theory To Increase Mutual Understanding and Predictability

    Great post, the fundamentals of which sadly are too oft forgotten or in the exercise of arrogance and/or intellectual dishonesty are casually dismissed. Heaven help the one who challenges a person guilty of such, for sometimes the challenger and not the guilty are outcast. Flavor choices are...
  19. Ron Party

    RIP Greg Lake ... from ELP

    What a voice. From The Beginning was one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar. And ITCOTKC is one of the greatest albums, not just prog, of all time.
  20. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

  21. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    LBJ is amazing. Combination of so many attributes that makes a great. Shooting accuracy is his only deficiency.
  22. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    I remember watching that game as if it was yesterday. What Magic didn't do, he gave to Silk to do... I think he scored 35.
  23. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    He wasn't. He scored 26 in game 1, to go with 8 assists and the Dubs win. Then he let Delly push him around in game 2 and *only* scored 19. He scored 27 in game 3 but Cleveland went up 2-1. Then we had the coach's decision that changed the series, inserting Iggy in the starting lineup. Dubs...
  24. Ron Party

    New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

    Yep. That's the Klank Thompson I've been watching too. He's a streak shooter. He's got no hops. Then there are the klayups... oh my:eek: I've not missed a Dub's game in about 4 years. Curry played the finals at about 60 percent. He seriously injured his leg in that spill he took in the...
  25. Ron Party

    The ***Official*** Progressive Rock Thread

    1972 gem, Khan (Steve Hillage), Space Shanty
  26. Ron Party

    Is the big rig too good for our own good??

    I've backpacked and car camped down in Big Sur more times than I can count. That is God's country. Mike, I'm with you, brother. Southbound Highway 1 from Carmel to Big Sur is about as good as it gets. '64 MGB with some good tunes... man, I'd take that experience over almost anything, easily...
  27. Ron Party

    Peter Gabriel, The Veil

    In the spirit of his anthem to Stephen Biko, Peter Gabriel's new song:
  28. Ron Party

    We ain't gettin' any younger

    A few others still putting out great music and/or touring: Mavis Staples 77 Maria Muldaur 73 Pete Townshend 71 Rod Argent 71 Colin Blunstone 71 Rod Stewart 71 Hugh Masekela 71 Al Green 70 Bryan Ferry 70 Mick Fleetwood 69 Frankie Beverly 69 Jimmy Cliff 68 Brian Eno 68 Donald Fagen...
  29. Ron Party

    We ain't gettin' any younger

    Also still prolifically touring and/or making great new music John Mayall 82 Buddy Guy 80 Dion 77 Herbie Hancock 76 Eric Burdon 75 Jorma Kaukonen 75 John McLaughlin 74 Jeff Beck 72 Roger Waters 72 Steve Miller 72 Boz Scaggs 72 Robin Trower 71 Jon Anderson 71 John Fogerty 71...
  30. Ron Party

    The ***Official*** Progressive Rock Thread

    Happy Sunday! First up, today, is the hauntingly beautiful album by Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun:

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