Recent content by h.g.

I choose to post anonymously (well semi-anonymously given a couple of people have spotted me although not here on PFM as far as I am aware) for the usual reasons. It is your forum to run as you see fit and if I am not welcome I am happy enough to move on.

I have always made it clear that my interest in "audiophile foo" threads is why some audiophiles believe nonsense from dubious sources in preference to the type of information they were taught at school from reliable sources. I am normally just as baffled at the start of a thread as the end...

Nailed it! BTW is anybody interested in the actual physics of stands under loudspeakers?

I think you are assuming the thread to be a bit more rational than it is. What is being floated to see if it might be accepted by non-technical audiophiles seems to be more to do with equipment racks for things like solid state amplifiers rather than stands under speakers or shelving for...

Interesting. I would have expected reducing undesirable low frequency motions to show up as an increased clarity particularly in the midrange where we are most sensitive. Here is a note from just before the time pretty much everything to do with turntables went a bit silly. It is measurement...

Indeed. It isn't rational but a form of reasoning will be taking place. Trying to work out what it is the challenging and fun part of the thread for some of us.

When patenting there is no requirement for something to work or for the explanation of how it works to be a technical one rather than a magical one. In fact the more ridiculous an invention the less conflict there will be with other inventions. Patenting something can have significant marketing...

Are you referring to calling energy a force a grammatical error? If so, that might be getting us somewhere. If someone said 2+2 = 7 I presume you wouldn't call that a grammatical error? And if 2+2 = 7 was their explanation for what they were promoting would you view it as dishonest? Or a mistake...

Some more information on the kind of thing some of the more committed audiophiles believe but nothing that I can see on why. Would their BS-filters be as blocked in other areas? Or is committing to a particular audiophile belief (for reasons not understood) responsible for creating a fairly...

What determines if the damaging vibrations will want to follow the path? Force of personality, faith, or something a bit more along the lines of what was taught at school? (Setting aside questions of what vibrations might be and what is and is not transported.) Devices that isolate are devices...

Why not? You must be using something to come to this albeit tentative conclusion? By companies employing competent engineers like Neumann, Genelec, KEF and the like? By companies that require their customers to be ignorant of basic technical information in order that they can be persuaded to...

The problem is that there is little understandable meaning which will require people to not only lack technical understanding themselves but to consider whoever is inventing or passing on this drivel to be of higher status than those with the relevant technical understanding. What makes this...

Hasn't been an issue but then the photo shop was pretty much always used for paper copies of photos when we had low cost inkjet printers and before. In truth the paper copies of photos have been largely sitting in unopened card boxes and albums for fair few years. Almost always use a memory...

What thing is this? Can you point at a diagram or a paragraph explaining what is being proposed? Yes I understand that people adopt different ways of reasoning but what is at the end of your links appears such an extreme example of technical ignorance (note technical not necessarily other...

Why does it need a vibrating transformer and why does it have to be in the speaker rather than external on the back?