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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 17:10:28 GMT
No need. It was simply my way of saying I can not better your post
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 17:00:11 GMT
Pinch first you hussled me now you stole my post. Pinch indeed
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 15:34:32 GMT
Well at least they must have worked , amphetamines weight loss properties are beyond doubt
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 15:28:24 GMT
I am happy to accept the difference you heard pinky . However , you will never know if the effect of the second clean was just the effect of the second clean
If I was an objectivist I would of course be saying that all the time and trouble you went to making your own vacuum machine lead to an expection bias but of course I aint an objectivist .
Edit - I suppose it you wet cleaned it alone six times and then did a vacuum clean and it was better ,I may begin to concede the efficacy
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 14:35:43 GMT
I did conceded the convenience point vis a vis rcm Gents , are you suggesting the addition of a vacuum pump reaps SQ rewards , if so then I have difficulty believing it . it is also impossible to prove . You can't clean the record both ways and finding two identical used records is impossible . You can technically buy 2 new records [ if you believe cleaning new records benefits these as well ] , but nobody's as done that have they
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 13:23:20 GMT
brush for cleaning the dimond/cantilever Accurate tracking weight device cartridge alignment tool - vinyl engine free ones are good enough if your tt as a d.c motor - rpm counter - free strobe disk is good enough
----------- Anything else is not needed , but can be more fun if that way inclined .
RCM's in my opinion save time/hassle , they do not impart magic cleaning properties that aren't available to the hand washer .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 12:22:51 GMT
They interviewed the head of drug testing for the Olympics and he made the brilliant irrefutable point . Before we can test for cheating , the form of cheating must be known and it is a fact , the cheat is invented first , the test after . I give you EPO .
Kolo was banned for taking water tablets to control his weight given to him by his wife. They had a banned substance in them .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 12:17:02 GMT
My - limited -understanding is static is a temporal/transitory charge - caused by friction between a insulator and conductor and it can not be stored . Where you doing the soft shoe shuffle ?
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 12:13:27 GMT
YEP and they said Lance Armstrong was clean and he was the most tested cyclist there was .
kolo toure was banned last year for testing positive for a none recreational drug .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 11:17:03 GMT
cyclists get paid several millions for riding a bike , high as a kite .
uk football as a significant number of drugs test and is favourably comparable if not better than any sport on the planet .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 9:54:36 GMT
Sue has just found this whilst clearing the loft in anticipation of a move - inside "Genesis - the evolution of a rock band" by Armando Gallo My first HiFi at Uni - before I bought the Stax headphones and PT turntable Well well pinkie, I ripped up Armando's book and had them plastered over my wall as a 1st year on campus student , though judging by your photos you went to uni considerably earlier than me .My hifi was Phillips cd player , aracam amp and AR speakers .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 7, 2014 8:36:59 GMT
Bar Collins/Thompson on Seconds Out , drummers attempting a solo should be shot .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 22:29:20 GMT
OK, I see the HFS mafia are on my case. FWIW I love music and bought an LP12 over 25 years ago; my love is not money driven. Perhaps some sour grapes are yet again being aired, I guess not being part of the Brit Hi-Fi scene when it exploded must still hurt, bad! Please make sense . two people cant be a mafia . I have a job and i am far two young to care about what happened 25 years ago .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 22:25:48 GMT
Marco , you could of have called me Paul Auster , if you search the pfm archives you will find at least four posts in which you vehemently agree with me and use the phrase nail on head . That was of course before I was unfairly banned and reinstated as Gerald Seems you no longer agree with me . Alas . As for Gerald being Daniel Quinn , that is common knowledge .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 22:14:53 GMT
"Can I ask why it is that you think £1,500 kettle leads are absurd, is that because you have listened to them and can't tell the difference or because your scientific knowledge predicts that they sound the same as a £1 one?"
Thats easy , its cause they cost £6.22 to make .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 22:09:32 GMT
Dave c. I said no pedants. And in response I give you serge. Paraphrasing 400 of years of intellectual theory sacrifices nuance .losenot what more evidence do I need but my ears. Need to refine your definition. A drop in the ocean and proof that I'm probably right. I don't approve of labels and then others describing them. Dave Dave by the unanimous vote of the members of my family who are still up watching holland and drinking prosecco [ thats 1 out of 6 ] i am the cleverest person on hifi fora , but even i cant argue with your one sentence sophistry
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 21:57:42 GMT
I believe that Andrew was merely expressing his opinion as an audio enthusiast and LP12 owner, which he's entitled to do. Marco. Richard [dunn] may not be a diplomat ,but he takes extreme care not to express opinions that may be misconstrued as self promotion . If he [god forbid ] made a lp12 add on , he would be on here telling you the turntable was shit but his add on made it better , if you dont agree send it back for a full refund , but in his opinion you would be better off spending your money on Direct drive .
He makes amplifiers he passionately believes in and considers to be better than anything available for the money at reproducing recorded music , but he will not brag about them and will only ask if your interested to listen . He is brutally honest and holds himself to the same accountability and standards he holds others to , that is why he can be perceived as an arse and difficult and why even when i wince at is occasional obstinacy and belligerence .
MODERATION: personal reference removed i am happy to accept i may be wrong , but it is what i believe . I also believe that any opinion expressed by Richard Dunn is his truth and I would have no hesitation about taking it seriously . And for a hifi manufacturer , I think that may be unique.
I say this because , H/S justifiably may prejudice perceptions and I perceive some of these prejudices effecting perceptions . Do what I do , read the post, decide what you think about it and then see who wrote it .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 21:24:40 GMT
Dave c. I said no pedants. And in response I give you serge. Paraphrasing 400 of years of intellectual theory sacrifices nuance
.losenot what more evidence do I need but my ears. Need to refine your definition.
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 10:18:43 GMT
o pinch , you hussled me for what's its worth , whilst the music signal is clearly electrical , I think there must be more to it than the sum of its measurable electrical parts and as such i don't think it is necessary to broaden the objective investigation to pyscho- acoustic elements . Many differences heard in an individuals listening room i think are amenable to others and dont require that blody phrase "expectation bias" to explain them . Hifi is ultimately a solipsistic experience so ultimate proof or explanation is a chimera . My answer is forums and people sharing their experiences , if you ignore the extremes then a consensus and working truth arises and people can use this as a means to inform themselves . I am sanguine about people using £700 mains leads and hearing differences as long as those differences are honest and have perspective, the only caveat I have against this is people charging thousands for materials which can he had for pennies and pounds without explaining the cost and with no explanation I can only assume the cost is premised on profit motive rather than efficacy .
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Post by danielquinn on Jul 5, 2014 9:06:04 GMT
Well pinch , that sure is a onerous task you request – but to put it simply of the top of my head – so please no pedants
Ontology is concerned with what is and the nature of things and epistemology is the theory of knowledge ,its status , foundations and how we know what is .
Objectivists believe there is a world that exists outside of consciousness and language and that workings of that world can be known for sure and what can be known is independent of our language and consciousness. Their preferred model is that of science – deductive nomologoical explanations based on scientific method - theory , experimentation , prediction and repetition .
They believe that knowledge derived from this method is true , objective fully explains a world which can be known .
Now science as largely got on with its job and not worried about the theoretical foundations of its knowledge our how it is acquired , there focus as been on pure practicality .
However philosophy and the social sciences have attempted to appropriate objectivist theories to explain the world , this as given rise to many theories with an objective foundation , functionalism , structuralism, structural Marxism and even Freudian psychoanalysis .
However this simple objective empiricism as been attacked by a plethora of theories that can be loosely termed subjective and essentially they argue the world can not be known to us definitively because it can only be know through language and there is no way of knowing that our knowledge is true or all there is to be known . Our language attempts to make an explanatory purchase on reality but we can only know the world through language and thus it is always subjective. There is an unbreakable hermetic barrier between language and reality . Red is red because of language rules not any inherent aspect of reality .
Additionally , repetition and prediction are not guarantees of truth and there is no guarantee that our explanations are true or the whole story . Thus a theory may allow prediction and repetition but there is no guarantee it explains 100% of the phenomena being explained and measurement may correlate with phenomena but again there is no guarantee the measurement explains it all . Acceptance and the end of scientific investigation in to any phenomena is largely practical
This gives rise to theories/studies which shows how human beings construct reality through language , from ethnography to Wittgenstein .
In essence , language is subjective and language is our only means to understand the world and there will always be an epistemological gap between language and reality and scientific knowledge is nothing but a special form of useful knowledge but it is not true .
In turn , This gave rise to the sociology of science , in which studies of how scientific knowledge became accepted were undertaken and emphasised the social element , rhetoric , culture , status , financing were as influential in the dissemination and acceptance of knowledge as actual pure scientific method . Thomas Kuhn argued that science was dominated by paradigms and these paradigms stopped enquiry or explanation outside the paradigm – they acted as normative barriers to enquiry , until eventually there was a knowledge revolution and all old knowledge was abandoned and taken over by a revolutionary new paradigm
Karl Popper in an attempt to save knowledge from this subjective black hole and maintain the status of scientific knowledge against what he considered the claptrap of marxism came up with theory of falsification , which is a concession to subjectivist principle of an unbridgeable gap between language and reality meaning there can be no such thing as truth . Nothing can be known for sure , scientific knowledge retains a special explanatory status because it as not yet been falsified .
All explanations of the world must have an ontological and epistemological foundation and therefore must have a place on the objective –subjective axis .
Now in terms of hifi , much of this debate as been poorly appropriated , but to put it simply , an objectivist will argue that the reality of the music signal can be known 100% through measurement . The musical signal is a real abstract entity made up of physical properties which can be known and predicted through ,measurement . A subjectivist will argue that much of the science of music as been appropriated and it does not have a 100% handle on the musical signal or of the reality of listening to music . Listening to music is a subjective experience , our scientific knowledge of what is involved in the reproduction of the music signal in your listening room is poor and ultimately is analogous to explaining my love of Francis Bacon by measuring the canvas .
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