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I don't want him dead. He needs to spend decades in jail, especially as after killing a mother and two daughters, he won't be very popular with other inmates who have daughters of their own.
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The comments on audiosciencereview.com
I know it’s the internet, and a perfect microcosm of it at that. My recent explorations have stumbled across many a 30-page discussion resulting from a test of an amp, speaker or even a channel switcher. The absolute hatred of anything that doesn’t receive high scores is incredible, even though implicit in the whole thing is the complexity of acoustics, the difficulty of testing & the subjectivity of hearing. Such dogmatic views are kinda sad.
p.s. not talking about tests that show zero degradation (at all price points) of electrical signals on certain, erm, wires, that power or join together hifi components.
I know it’s the internet, and a perfect microcosm of it at that. My recent explorations have stumbled across many a 30-page discussion resulting from a test of an amp, speaker or even a channel switcher. The absolute hatred of anything that doesn’t receive high scores is incredible, even though implicit in the whole thing is the complexity of acoustics, the difficulty of testing & the subjectivity of hearing. Such dogmatic views are kinda sad.
p.s. not talking about tests that show zero degradation (at all price points) of electrical signals on certain, erm, wires, that power or join together hifi components.
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That is definitely not the site for me. I don’t see the point of obsessing over testing and performance results and graphs. What really matters is what kit sounds like, to your ears, in your home.
Those people have lost sight of what it’s all about, enjoying listening to music.
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Whereas those obsessing over bits of wire, fuses, furniture, bits and sample rates, etc, etc, and any other pointless snake oil you care to mention haven't? *
*which is pretty much every other hifi forum , including this one. Incidentally.
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It’s a fair point. I presume that site has loads of other topics, but google only brings up the testing threads.
And the fact I felt the need to call out a difference between testing cables for signal loss vs something like speaker response shows where my bias lies: I trust measurements that reinforce my beliefs.
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Confirmation bias in other words?
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Where did I say that those obsessed with testing, are the only ones who have lost sight of what it's all about?
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Me, I fear.
Being followed by a Corsa on the way back from hols a week or two ago, along a very long stretch of dual carriageway. Whenever I was stuck behind something that was slowly overtaking a lorry, the Corsa glued itself to the bumper of Mrs 12th's car. When the way cleared, I'd put my foot down to get up to speed, get past and then pull into the nearside lane - as per highway code etc. Each time, a substantial gap opened up between us and the Corsa.
I started to notice that whenever I did this, and no matter how many hundreds of metres of clear road ahead there was, the Corsa never moved out of the overtaking lane. It just sat there, gradually being wound up and glacially catching up after having been dropped. Each time I moved over to overtake something, I seemed to end up behind another vehicle that was doing likewise, but always slowly. So each time I ended up with the Corsa stuck in my rear view mirror, and each time it then refused to get out of the overtaking lane no matter how clear the other lane was.
I'm sorry to say that after a while I made a bit of a game out of it - ensuring that as the gap got down to 50m+ or so (i.e. it was perfectly safe to pull out, given the glacial rate of gain), I was always at the point of having to pull out to overtake. This went on for about half an hour. Not noble, I know. I'd like to pretend I'm not proud...
Being followed by a Corsa on the way back from hols a week or two ago, along a very long stretch of dual carriageway. Whenever I was stuck behind something that was slowly overtaking a lorry, the Corsa glued itself to the bumper of Mrs 12th's car. When the way cleared, I'd put my foot down to get up to speed, get past and then pull into the nearside lane - as per highway code etc. Each time, a substantial gap opened up between us and the Corsa.
I started to notice that whenever I did this, and no matter how many hundreds of metres of clear road ahead there was, the Corsa never moved out of the overtaking lane. It just sat there, gradually being wound up and glacially catching up after having been dropped. Each time I moved over to overtake something, I seemed to end up behind another vehicle that was doing likewise, but always slowly. So each time I ended up with the Corsa stuck in my rear view mirror, and each time it then refused to get out of the overtaking lane no matter how clear the other lane was.
I'm sorry to say that after a while I made a bit of a game out of it - ensuring that as the gap got down to 50m+ or so (i.e. it was perfectly safe to pull out, given the glacial rate of gain), I was always at the point of having to pull out to overtake. This went on for about half an hour. Not noble, I know. I'd like to pretend I'm not proud...
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The Beeb's coverage of the Olympics. Wanted to watch the swimming, but the decided to stick with Murray's tennis. And this was also being show on the red button as the only other live option. When swimming became available on red button, this then switched to showing the hockey. After quitting iPlayer and re-entering a few times, swimming finally became an option again, but only after two events had actually happened.
Given that it can stream a vast number of things in this way, please just stick with what you say you are going to show...
Given that it can stream a vast number of things in this way, please just stick with what you say you are going to show...
Think I read somewhere the Beeb has actually sold the broadcasting rights to a third party...might be something to do with it.
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I hope not, but who knows? I'm just hoping they won't muck up the athletics too - that's the real Olympics for me.
They did not sell it. Warner Brothers bought the European broadcast rights for £1.3billion, from the IOC, which is a tad beyond the BBC budget. Because it is a protected event for public broadcasting under UK law they were sold 2 streams from the original package, and that was all the BBC could afford. The BBC have to choose which 2 to show at anytime.
The WB deal lasts until 2032.
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Hot, humid weather. For me, about as welcome as stinging nettles in a nudist colony.
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I have just binged through nine episodes of Dark Matter on my streaming service (Apple+ TV), great Sci-Fi. How likely is it that a multiverse exists and there is another version of you or maybe thousands of you, coexisting in a parallel universe.
Don't want to spoil it for you but if you haven't watched it yet, worth putting it on your viewing list, or better still, read the book.
View: https://youtu.be/j6ucGt_Xp14?si=Y6UWZdY3E78kD2db
Don't want to spoil it for you but if you haven't watched it yet, worth putting it on your viewing list, or better still, read the book.
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You’ve been watching too much Futurama…
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Hey, don't knock it, Futurama is awesome!
That chick with the one eye is pretty hot! 🤣
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When our eyes met, it was a threesome 🤣
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Oh yeah absolutely, a real rip off. I got the tin box special edition of UHD 4K Blade Runner 2049 and I was made to cough out £40!
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