Eeyore wrote:
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You must not be so parochial. Think the wide web, think the world wide
training of audio professionals. They are all indebted to the great
teaching resource about negative feedback this thread represents.

I dare say you reckon you're fabulously better placed to comment on audio than a mere professional. Would you also get your next-door neighbour to perform surgery on you in view of this revalation ?

Graham
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Dear Mr. Eeyore. It seems that I caused offence and you're leaping into
the breach to defend your profession that I supposedly attacked. Where
exactly did you see me say that I'm."...fabulously better placed to
comment on audio than a mere professional" ? On the contrary I deplored
that the assembled professionals of the RAO indulge in endless
mud-slinging contests instead of enlightening us about their job. Shall
I quote some of your own comments?
Of course the sample we get in RAO may not be representative. To
illustrate let me answer your rhetorical question: "Would you also get
your next-door neighbour to perform surgery on you in view of this
revalation ?". The answer is :Yes, given no other choice I might go for
a commonsensical neighbour rather than some "surgeons" I had seen. A
degree is a licence to practice , not a guarantee of good practice. In
medicine, unfortunately, it may be a licence to kill. As one of my
Univ. teachers used to say: "With your degree you're given a little
private cemetery and you can set out to fill it for the rest of your
professional life"
But your snippet brings in a wider issue: In the end it is the consumer
who decides. And consumer are just as varied as the engineers serving
them.
Your more primitive colleagues on RAO assure us that they represent
"Science". They "prove" that all transistors are better than all tubes,
all CDs.bettere than all LPS and that all their double-blind judgements
are better than all those of K. Rubinson's, J.Atkinson's, Gordon Holt's
etc if sighted..
There are just one or two little problems. To a layman- consumer it
appears that many leaders in your profession do not write for RAO but
are busy creating different wrinkles for amps, preamps, cd players etc.
that your "scientists" say should all sound the same. Whom to
believe? Who is the voodoo scientist: Manley and D'Agostino, or Bateman
of the RAHE and the usual shrill suspects of RAO?
If you add that these gents proclaim the infallibility of their
voodoo, magic "test" that they never bothered to validate by a properly
designed experimentation- what is the poor consumer to do but rely on
his preference?
By all means explain to us how things work but leave us with our
preferences because neither we nor you have an infallible tool to
measu better from worse.that works for anyone other than ourselves.
And keep filth out of these pages..
Ludovic Mirabel