I prefer just a B-A. Put something new in for two weeks. Switch back. You’ll know in moments if you’re keeping the new thing.
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I prefer just a B-A. Put something new in for two weeks. Switch back. You’ll know in moments if you’re keeping the new thing.
Ummmm, Steve, I perceive tho hast openeth up rabbit holes.
1. Surely you would agree there exists superior as well as inferior tweaks and accessories and methods just like there exists superior and inferior components, speakers, rooms, etc. And as usual, the number of inferior versions greatly outweigh the superior. At the very least the law of probabilities is not in anybody's favor.
2. We should always be suspect of everything and everyone, especially in a overwhelmingly subjective audio-only hobby.
3. I've had a few visitors request to hear the system without my "tweaks" and "accessories". I mention to them the 5 months it took for my amps to settle in using my extreme mounting method, the 18+ months for my line conditioners to settle in using an even more extreme mounting method and 3 years later still hearing an occasional little improvement, my rack 8 months to settle in and it hasn't budged one mm since October, 2011, etc. And then I say, sorry but that's just not going to happen. Before I mount a new component in place, I first install a cryo-treated fuse and open up the lid to check every possible connection and fastener I can find for tightness, because once it goes in, if it's good enough it's not coming out until it dies. Shoot, if somebody asked, I wouldn't even remove my little custom speaker cable lifters that took 4 days to settle in. Not to sound insulting, but nobody is worth going thru such efforts. Except maybe Katie Perry and even then she'd better be wearing a short skirt with her hair in pig tails.
4. As somebody mentioned in a tweaks thread a while back something about you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear, my reply was,
"Show me an out-of-the-box SOTA-level playback system and I'll show you a me-too hi-fi system aka a sow's ear. Show me a humble but extremely well-thought-out playback system fine-tuned with certain superior "tweaks" and "accessories" and methods and I'll show you a playback system with levels of musicality few if any can match aka a silk purse."
Or something like that.
Anyway, chances are pretty good, if it's easy to install and uninstall and re-install it's probably not very benefiical, otherwise everybody would be doing it.
I had to google translateNoli contra ventum urinare
I couldn't resist that one
Steve williams
Site Founder, Site Co-Owner, Administrator
Hi Tim, and welcome!
Two things drew me to this site: The intelligence and brotherhood of the members. When I read posts here, so many times I feel like I'm reading the words of genuine experts, and such is not the case on most internet fora (<- my new favorite word). Also, this site is home to an exceptionally refreshing combination of deep passion and "live and let live". For instance, people here don't put down those who spend significantly more or significantly less than they do; it's much more of a brotherhood.
In my experience the founders/owners of an internet forum are the ones who set the tone, and Steve and Ron set really good examples.
I have consistently felt that my kind are welcome here (in contrast with some other sites), and far as I can recall industry members do not tend to be self-promotional, though we may believe strongly in this or that. But please take anything I post with as many grains of salt as necessary.
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Be careful, there is an old Latin saying ...."Non facere traho toga superhominem" which roughly translates to "Don't tug on Superman's cape"
.There was also the one about don't pull the mask off the ol' lone ranger and don't mess around with
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Fora moment I thought you were serious.
Nice play on words!
Got it, sarcasm directed at me.
Maybe it was the 4 years of Latin I was forced to do at school or the roman catholic upbringing. I am used to sarcasm on other forums but never about the declension of nouns. That's a first. I am not from USA or Britain but I appreciate words can be unfamiliar depending on one's background. Sometimes attributed to George Bernard Shaw "Britain and America are two nations divided by a common language".
Thanks. Not really at you. I like words.
I vaguely remember conjugating Latin at 7:30 in the morning.
By the way ...
Is that first word an adjective or a noun?
The only Latin I know is Bon Jovi... or is that Franco-Portuguese??... anyways it means good happy!
Again, nice call. I also like words. It was meant to be ambiguous. Cheers
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IMHO we do not need Latin to debate tweaks - plain english is enough to show how hard the subject can be. Sometime ago we had a thread trying to define tweak and the disagreement on the suggested definitions was very clear.
Anyway, thanks to the internet everyone, even those as me that only remember rosa, rosa, rosae, rosae rosa, rosam and rosae, rosae, rosarum, rosis, rosis, rosas from school times can be latin experts
https://bestlifeonline.com/latin-phrases/
My preferred for this great hobby: "Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt."
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My preferred for this great hobby: "Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt."
Agreed!
Here is another that could also apply in conjunction with the one above: «?? ???? ??? ????? ????» (why not throw in some greek while we're at it
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