Re: Rx for DBTs in hobby magazines ... LOt"S ;-)

"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" <artyguy04@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 13, 6:13 am, "Arny Krueger" <ar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" <artygu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> So do you use reviews of equipment from audio magazines
>>> in your buying decisions?

>> Generally no.

> Therefore the two biggest advocates of DBTs for
> subjective magazine  reviews do not use reviews in their buying
decision.

Reason being that magazine reviews are cheap slapdash affairs, whose 
fabricators can't be bothered with the trouble to use adequate procedures
to 
back up their recommendations.

>>> If "yes" which ones?
>>> If "no", why are you so concerned about how they're
>>> done?

>> Public safety and welfare.

> I don't but based on reviews either. Who are you "protecting"?

I'm not protecting anybody. However, I am against abusing people by
foisting 
off opinons based on inadequate evidence.

>> Also, just having fun shooting holes in a target
>> at least as big as the side of a barn.

> But you aren't.

Delusions of omniscience noted. How do you know whether I'm having fun or 
not?

>That's the funny part.

What's funny is watching you abuse logic and reason, ****R.

> Isn't it true that a DBT only determines if that
> individual can detect  a difference in that setting?

That would be true for DBTs involving just one individual. If that one 
individual is me, then the results would be completely relevant to me.

>> I think every person who is interested in honesty and
>> reason should have a
>> punching bag about the size of John Atkinson. ;-)

> So in your opinion magazine reviewers "lie" when they
> write reviews.

I think that many of them are so poorly-informed that they are probably 
sincere about the bilge they write and have published under their names or

aliases.

> Are you envious of the success JA has in the audio
> industry?

Do you seriously call what John has done to his reputation in serious 
technical circles "success"?