Hugo9000 Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Kibbitz might better describe what goes on here. haha! 请教别人一次是5分钟的傻子,从不请教别人是一辈子的傻子 Link to comment
Popular Post Hugo9000 Posted August 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2019 We are responsible for our own violation of confidences. To blame others for our own posting behavior and attacks is ludicrous. A certain member consistently attacks broad classes of people and professions. He/she consistently attacks specific members. These attacks may sometimes go unnoticed by general site membership due to thread cleanup that hides some very egregious behavior (not saying that was the intent of the site or thread moderator, but it's at least a side effect that affects perception if no one sees these horrible attacks before they are removed, and it allows people to overlook behavior that perhaps they wouldn't otherwise). He/she repeatedly talks about how nasty others are, yet never acknowledges his/her own posting history of sharing personal and private information, illegal sharing of copyrighted material (sharing it in a PM or email is illegal, it just allows public deniability), etc. When someone disagrees with this member, even in the most polite terms, he/she uses private correspondence in what appears to be an effort to shame others into silence or into public agreement, or to try to reduce their credibility in the eyes of others. If someone says they no longer agree or feel they were in error, or they say they believe you took their statement out of context or read more into it than they meant, then please be respectful and let it go, not post a hundred times about how you have PMs from the past where this person once agreed. Just because someone might appear to be rude to this member doesn't excuse the above behavior that he/she consistently engages in. Perhaps someone was outright nasty to him/her ten years ago on another forum. No one here needs to hear about it. If it's being done here and now, other members will see it and can judge for themselves. I assume I am opening myself to attacks now, or accusations that I am part of a (insert derogatory term for a profession or class of people) cabal, or accusations that I idolize this or that person. I'm not a member of any clique. If I "upvote" a post, it's because I think it's a valid point for me to consider in the thread topic, if I "like" the post, then I might agree with it, if I use "thanks" then it might be something I hadn't thought of or it was unknown to me and it's now valuable to me, or it might be "thanks" for saying something that I didn't have the courage to post myself, or that someone said better than I could have, or it's like "you're welcome" if it's in response to a post thanking me for sharing something. I use "off topic" if I think it's off topic, not because I disagree, and I use "disagree" if I disagree with the post content. I generally don't bother commenting or reacting at all if I simply don't like or respect the poster. I am a subjective when it comes to my music, but I try to have some objective information when making decisions on purchasing or setting up gear. There is so much equipment out there, and so much disinformation/FUD, that I need something to assist me in whittling down what gear to look at and what to listen for. Measurements can be a valuable tool--I personally don't understand why anyone wouldn't want as much information as possible, while I am not able to make those measurements myself. I own an old Fluke 16 and a Fieldpiece clamp meter from the same era, other than that, I own no test gear of any kind. I do have 3000+ music CDs/SACDs, and I listen at least three hours per day, with my full attention on the music. My only "idols" in life are a few musical ones: a tiny number of composers, singers, instrumentalists. So I hope no one will accuse me of being in one of these little feuding groups, that may or may not even exist here, but are used as distractions in the negative posting of some members. I hesitate to post this, but perhaps there is someone else who, like me, would normally keep silent or just vent privately, so perhaps this is slightly useful for this point of view to be expressed. I suppose some will call this post an attack, and hypocritical, and perhaps the worst offenders won't see themselves in any of this, but rather will see their own "enemies." I suppose some will think this is just civility policing, although I think the types of behavior I criticized above are actually far worse than someone lashing out in brief anger with an expletive that might result in an automatic ban. Sigh. Back to music, and on topic, it is on digital media (CD), and I believe that it's a case of "bits is bits." But perhaps I lack the expertise. It sounds glorious, however, even though Neil Young's new book would say it's only 25% of the information that could be on a vinyl LP (which his graphic shows as "Hi-Res Analog" and is rated at 100% of the data in the recording). lol The recording is Verdi's La forza del destino, sung by Leontyne Price. When I play my ripped files via my USB cable to an outboard DAC, it sounds identical to my ears to the CD playback. I also have the LP set, incidentally, and it is clear to my ears and brain that the CD and the digital rip are superior in resolution to the LP hahaha! But then, I guess my LP rig was always crap. lol mansr, marce, Teresa and 5 others 5 2 1 请教别人一次是5分钟的傻子,从不请教别人是一辈子的傻子 Link to comment
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