How much does it cost to be an audiophile?

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27 minutes ago, GUTB said:

I’ve read somewhere that IQ has gone up over the decades (correcting for factors like changes in economics, ethnic demographics, etc). But when I look at the technology developed with nothing but slide-rulers and scribbled math I can’t help but wonder if our measure of IQ is full of crap.

 

Of course it is, especially in those who can not accept that our senses are above and are more developed than much of what the oscilloscopes (and other instruments) tell us may not be right...

 

Much of the construction of scientific theory is based on measurements with these devices unfortunately, until then another scientist arrives and changes everything.

 

We are in this in the hands of us men and not Gods as some claim ...

 

I would be more inclined to measure emotional intelligence. EI instead of IQ ... !!! And also the hearing ability, why not?

 

I have seen many audio and AC cables that do a horrible job (and others that do not), regardless of their price ... For my ears, of course!

 

Roch

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1 hour ago, Solstice380 said:

 

Sadie’s has the best Carne Adovada.  It’s a nice , newer building that they are in.  Started out as the restaurant in the bowling alley down the street.  After it got to the point where there was always an hour wait they built their own place.

 

Please tell Sadie not to disfigure the Spanish, they must use the name Carne Adobada and no Adovada ...

 

Adobada (Spanish) = Marinated (English).

 

Adovada (Spanglish) ?

 

Spain and each Latin country uses different names for the definition of the same thing, but I do not like how they change the spelling ! Although that meat has very good flavor ?

 

Roch

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On 6/9/2018 at 4:19 AM, Solstice380 said:

 

You like the way they do that, huh?  The Spanish left the Americas centuries ago.  Things have changed a little since then.

 

The Cubans use adobada and the Mexicans use adovada.   At one Cuban restaurant in Miami I got served one huge, marinated pork chop!  Most everywhere else in the world I’ve had it, it was cubed and marinated in the red chiles. 

 

Either way it makes my mouth water just to think about it.  Yum!

 

But I do not finish thanking Spain for the Paella.
Family and friends say that mine is the best, but they know that if they do not say that I will not invite them again ?

 

Roch

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Last news regarding IQ !

 

https://www.care2.com/greenliving/new-study-finds-iqs-have-been-falling-for-decades.html

 

Please stop the junk food because artificial intelligence will replace us (even more) ?

 

Roch

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Personally would define IQ as "the state of happiness".

 

I once commented in this forum that I was married to a clinical psychologist. When she was doing her practice she decided to use me to do her first IQ test. I had a tremendous flu, it was late at night and I was very tired, however I decided to take it ... The next morning she had the result, I was the closest thing to a donkey ... and added, "that it's because of you smoke and drink a lot and you work like a donkey ... " OK", I replied, "but I'm a happy donkey ..." ?

 

Roch

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1 minute ago, mansr said:

Happiness is great. It is, however, not equivalent to intelligence. Indeed, stupid people are quite often happy. Ignorance is bliss.

 

Then I prefer to be stupid and ignorant. Unfortunately I still have some moments of enlightenment?

 

Roch

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9 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

good name for a cable company!

 

https://www.gentec-intl.com/brands/iq/

 

Roch

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6 minutes ago, esldude said:

 

 

Love this film !  I have a copy on DVD.

 

Roch

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14 minutes ago, mansr said:

All true, but an IQ test doesn't account for the effects of long-term experience. Reaching one's limit in a particular area of problem solving can take years.

 

This is called scientific obsession.

 

Like me, trying to figure out why USB cables sound different ?

 

Roch

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2 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

Have you tried that $6,000 one yet ?

 

They stole it from me at customs ?   Maybe they thought they had diamond inside and it was just Litz cable with 99.99999999% purity, very rare. Dr. krishnamurti from India spent 9 years, 9 months, 9 days, 9 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds manufacturing it.

 

But the truth is that I am very happy with my Lush ! 

 

Roch

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7 minutes ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

 

Smartness isn't the same as happiness (unless you include emotional IQ I guess). You could have either or neither.

But the donkey reference reminded me of an Einstein quote "Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig."

 

 

My comment was just an irony, but if I have to choose ...

 

You need to be smart to be happy, although it seems a redundancy.

 

No pain, no gain is cruel  ?

 

Roch

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1 minute ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

 

There is recent research that says the opposite.

 

Talking about recent researches you remind me of my ex...?

 

The presidential elections in my country just happened, and the millennials won. A joke was made about this generation, who called it "the generation that did not know the Merthiolate ..." When I was young, many, many moons ago, when you suffered a scratch or wound they put Merthiolate, which hurt more than the wound.

 

On reflection we need some pain !

 

Roch

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5 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

not it - 

humans can out run any other animal

 

...under certain conditions

 

Long distances - in the heat, with plenty of water - 3 factors often found in Africa, where humans evolved

 

BTW, tribesman in E. Africa used to run down cheetahs to capture them

 

people often take their dogs for a jog, and unfortunately sometimes kill the dogs

 

 

The dogs do not die when they chase, for long distances, to their bitches.

 

Those who die by their masters doing jogging commit suicide ?

 

Roch

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1 minute ago, Audiophile Neuroscience said:

 

Is Roch married to a usb cable?

 

I have a harem, but Lush is my favorite ?

 

Roch

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7 minutes ago, beerandmusic said:

after 33 pages i am still trying to figure out how much it costs to be an audiophile...and who do we pay to join?

 

For me, a lot of money, if "time is money". I spend a lot of time on Google Translators !!!

 

Roch

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6 minutes ago, daverich4 said:

Just curious what any of this Intellectual Masturbation you guys are doing has to do with the topic this thread is supposed to be about?

 

In my particular case is just Intellectual Disturbation because of my ex-wife who qualified me so low in the IQ test ?

 

Roch

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3 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

The Mongols were stopped as soon as they started hitting forests rather than open plains where they could find a lot of open feeding ground for their horses.  They did penetrate somewhat into Europe, but not far.  If we're giving out book recommendations here, a good book to read is Genghis Khan and the Making of The Modern World.

 

Does not match the Netflix series !!!

 

Roch

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1 minute ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

Ahh Netflix, that paragon of intellectual rigor...

 

Of course!  And Dr. Mercola for medical guidance ?

 

Roch

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2 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

You're going to live to 200 Roch!

 

Only 200?    I've got few left! ?

 

Roch

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3 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

300?

 

If 300 (I asked my health insurance provider) the prime I have to pay is higher than the benefits.  My break-in point is 250 years, but for that I have to live in Dr. Sears Longevity Clinic in Florida (for the rich & famous that I'm not) and so expensive than I rather quit smoking now!

 

By the way, there are still hopes for smokers and I live according to this article:

 

https://www.phillymag.com/be-well-philly/2013/01/23/smokers-guide-health-fitness/

 

I am also shortening the length of my cigarettes. Here is a picture of me when I was stressed:

 

 

No wonder, stress is killing more people than cigarettes !

 

Anyway be carefully how you interpret statistics... If 67% of tobacco smokers die because of tobacco smoking, 33% don't...  Everything in this life is a risk, a calculated one and I'm an optimist ?

 

I forgot to tell you, three days after the IQ test that my ex-wife submitted to me, she told me that she had made a mistake in the calculations (she was never good at math) and that I had had a normal result. I went to see myself in the mirror and I did not notice any change in my face ?

 

Then, be carefully with all kinds of test, even the medical screen test.  I f something is out of your normal (or statistical) range, repeat it and, if possible, in a different lab !

 

And, of course, be carefully with statistics. Normally, trying to save money, they use very small samples and on the other hand, many of the subjects in the studio lie. I have worked in that some time of my life !!!

 

Roch

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Maybe not audiophile bu with great ears:

 

 

-Firulais, ¡where are you!  Bark,

please...

-¿Meow?

 

 

 

Too much pollutant today...

 

Roch

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6 hours ago, gmgraves said:

If only in your head... ?

 

George, do you know any other place where perceptions are given? ?

 

Roch

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4 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

see the Freedom of Screech thread...

 

I'm sorry, I can't follow you.  Language barriers?

 

Roch

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25 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

 

today on another thread, George was talking about freedom of speech...

 

Of  *his*  freedom of speech? ?

 

Roch

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7 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

The patients aren't the problem, its their parents... ?

 

 

 

Give a tranquilizer to parents before treating their children ?

 

Roch