Recent content by Dave_

It's also somewhat ironic that those that are the most critical of YT videos (when their subjectivist views are challenged, usually) are some of the most frequent posters of them...

Why is it certain members feel the need to start hyperbolic threads about products they've neither seen nor heard? Budget killer. Bloodbath. It's all just complete bollox....

Lots of forums do that, they could also rate limit the number of posts that are allowed in a given time frame, but SHaines has made it clear nothing's going to change in the way they do things . They're clearly happy for forum members to be greeted with spam for Weed and Coke every time we...

Unless of course you're using it purely as a transport to feed into DAC/Amp/AIO actives or whatever....

Sigh!

I wasn't advocating for a private forum exclusively for the use of existing users, just to be absolutely clear. Just that WHF admin take a more pro-active approach to its prevention, rather than a reactive one. And nobody expects that, but the excessive spamming that has plagued this forum...

Not watched the video because I'm not remotely interested in Victorian methods of playback frankly, but I'm warming to his videos purely based on the kind of people they wind up....

Straight up audiophoolery should be called out for what it is, and those perpetuating it, relentlessly mocked as far as I'm concerned....

Are WHF going to continue burying your heads in the sand and pretending like locking down the forum is a worse user experience than continually being greeted by Spam every time you visit? The forum is being inundated with it at the moment and it's unacceptable to just to rely on the volunteer...

I always use online chat when possible, saves wasting time sitting on hold, plus you get a transcript of the conversation.

I know full well why they offer them. I was rhetorical, in response to your post that seemed to imply that coz some hifi manufacturers include balanced connections that some how legitimises their use in a domestic setup...

Precisely. It's about what they can sell to gullible audiophiles!

That would be subjective reviews....

Why do they bother with expensive cables, and pointless devices like reclockers, "audiophile" ethernet switches and PSU upgrades etc...

Because it's the correct application for them. They're not necessary in a domestic hifi setup with the short cable lengths used