Resident Loser
08-24-2004, 08:39 AM
...and counting...probably more like 600 or better, but owing to some c0ck-up on the registration front and my changing monikers(used to go by jimHJJ) in mid stream...here we are...
As this is my first "voluntary" submission to the LABOROTORY(in my best Bobby "Boris" Pickett voice) I'll try to make it a doozie...
I am here to philosophize, to opinionate and otherwise spew forth my own anecdotal audio malarkey...all in the guise of an attempt at an entertaining romp thru audioland...
I miss the real technical stuff that was contributed by my late, lamented partners-in-crime. This place is a shell of itself without them...instead we have to endure even more mis-information that goes relatively unchallenged..relatively, well maybe 'til now...
In an effort to keep the place all warm and fuzzy as THEY want it to be, I've decided to post here, far from the scene of the crime...we're gonna play nice-nice and they won't delete this...RIGHT!...Besides look at the traffic...three or four threads and a handful of replies...who's gonna' look here?
No names, no faces... just some very audio-related observations...
There was a real poppin' post that got answers that were so ridiculous, they deserved ridicule...but alas I am not a liberty to provide such. Even after the poster informed us all the trouble was with his gear, there were still those who by force of habit or whatever, suggested a power conditioner might be the answer...Is reading and comprehension a lost art?
First off, the initial poster provided incomplete info...well, yeah...sure, it COULD be the unit itself, but when we are told(to paraphrase) all I did was change rooms and speaker wire...you tend to look for the likely suspects...even though a "short" in the wiring is really "out there"...but is a guided tour of turn-on/turn-off sequences a viable answer? Then we have the "power conditioner"...how in the name of Ampere can this play any part in the situation as described...
I digress(yet again)...the main crux of my biscuit is but another post re: some aftermarket wiring...when confronted with some questions, and in a fit of pique, I have responded "...look at your manual etc..." In this case I asked(again, to paraphrase) were you not provided with the required info? Didn't the salesman explain?
Now whenever I see a question that holds some interest, I try to visit the manufacturers site to get the info required, directly from some portion of the horses anatomy...I find these sites informative and highly entertaining as they are a great part of my never-ending file of what I see as pure hogwash...this one was no exception...again no names, don't wanna' rattle any chains...Laugh...ROTFLMAO is more like it...I still ache...
Suffice it to say, no name is required...save for some "proprietary" nomenclature, they are quite interchangeable...there are the requisite designs and graphics used to illustrate the "architecture"...an explanation of their specific "geometry"...some acronyms that stand for some whiz-bang "technology"...frequent mention of "proprietary" manufacturing process...unfortunately it is someone elses "proprietary" process of which anyone may partake...and other psuedo-scientific "factoids" such as a statement similar to "all drawn wire exhibits directionality" Huh? ANY charts, graphs, tests, studies? Not a one, so it seems...the only thing missing was my all time fave, mention of some obtuse relationship to NASA and the US space program...
But all is not lost. In addition to all the snake oil and voodoo and just plain doo-doo, we have a new term. I have actually seen it used in a post to this site...the term is "run-in"... Now anyone left, knows I have had a running battle with re: to the term "burn-in"(not to mention the the entire concept)...as we all know, "burn-in" is the time period required for the item under test to fail...has been so, will always be so.PERIOD..."break-in" is related to shoes and automobiles...cars used to be delivered with "break-in" oil and I've never seen anyone dump a quart of thirty-weight into a loudspeaker...so now we have yet another "-in" term which cannot seemingly have a case made against it...seemingly...they seem to say pretty much the same things, but have changed the name to protect the innocent...sorry folks, but isn't "run-in" what Mike the cop used to threaten Lou Costello with?
jimHJJ(...now THAT was funny...)
As this is my first "voluntary" submission to the LABOROTORY(in my best Bobby "Boris" Pickett voice) I'll try to make it a doozie...
I am here to philosophize, to opinionate and otherwise spew forth my own anecdotal audio malarkey...all in the guise of an attempt at an entertaining romp thru audioland...
I miss the real technical stuff that was contributed by my late, lamented partners-in-crime. This place is a shell of itself without them...instead we have to endure even more mis-information that goes relatively unchallenged..relatively, well maybe 'til now...
In an effort to keep the place all warm and fuzzy as THEY want it to be, I've decided to post here, far from the scene of the crime...we're gonna play nice-nice and they won't delete this...RIGHT!...Besides look at the traffic...three or four threads and a handful of replies...who's gonna' look here?
No names, no faces... just some very audio-related observations...
There was a real poppin' post that got answers that were so ridiculous, they deserved ridicule...but alas I am not a liberty to provide such. Even after the poster informed us all the trouble was with his gear, there were still those who by force of habit or whatever, suggested a power conditioner might be the answer...Is reading and comprehension a lost art?
First off, the initial poster provided incomplete info...well, yeah...sure, it COULD be the unit itself, but when we are told(to paraphrase) all I did was change rooms and speaker wire...you tend to look for the likely suspects...even though a "short" in the wiring is really "out there"...but is a guided tour of turn-on/turn-off sequences a viable answer? Then we have the "power conditioner"...how in the name of Ampere can this play any part in the situation as described...
I digress(yet again)...the main crux of my biscuit is but another post re: some aftermarket wiring...when confronted with some questions, and in a fit of pique, I have responded "...look at your manual etc..." In this case I asked(again, to paraphrase) were you not provided with the required info? Didn't the salesman explain?
Now whenever I see a question that holds some interest, I try to visit the manufacturers site to get the info required, directly from some portion of the horses anatomy...I find these sites informative and highly entertaining as they are a great part of my never-ending file of what I see as pure hogwash...this one was no exception...again no names, don't wanna' rattle any chains...Laugh...ROTFLMAO is more like it...I still ache...
Suffice it to say, no name is required...save for some "proprietary" nomenclature, they are quite interchangeable...there are the requisite designs and graphics used to illustrate the "architecture"...an explanation of their specific "geometry"...some acronyms that stand for some whiz-bang "technology"...frequent mention of "proprietary" manufacturing process...unfortunately it is someone elses "proprietary" process of which anyone may partake...and other psuedo-scientific "factoids" such as a statement similar to "all drawn wire exhibits directionality" Huh? ANY charts, graphs, tests, studies? Not a one, so it seems...the only thing missing was my all time fave, mention of some obtuse relationship to NASA and the US space program...
But all is not lost. In addition to all the snake oil and voodoo and just plain doo-doo, we have a new term. I have actually seen it used in a post to this site...the term is "run-in"... Now anyone left, knows I have had a running battle with re: to the term "burn-in"(not to mention the the entire concept)...as we all know, "burn-in" is the time period required for the item under test to fail...has been so, will always be so.PERIOD..."break-in" is related to shoes and automobiles...cars used to be delivered with "break-in" oil and I've never seen anyone dump a quart of thirty-weight into a loudspeaker...so now we have yet another "-in" term which cannot seemingly have a case made against it...seemingly...they seem to say pretty much the same things, but have changed the name to protect the innocent...sorry folks, but isn't "run-in" what Mike the cop used to threaten Lou Costello with?
jimHJJ(...now THAT was funny...)