This, I think, is the problem. It’s not really outright name-calling or harassment, as that would be moderated. The problem is the posts that sound reasonable, individually, taken at face value, but which are in reality twisting facts, repeating debunked misconceptions, or, in the worst case...

Neither does Sound Science advertise itself as a research journal, but that's beside the point. "Science", or the principals it represents, aren't something you simply turn on and off when you feel like it. Certainly there's nothing stopping someone truly dedicated to understanding the world...

The problem is not understanding the difference between a hobby and a profession. The problem is squaring someone who’s “dedicated [their] life to science” with reviews devoid of anything resembling it. It doesn’t help that you come in making a lot of noise about how most of what goes on here...

This is literally quantum mechanics in action, visible at the macro scale. (Pretty cool, isn't it!)

Well, that is a hard question. (I mean, what is a discussion, anyway. It’s just so hard to be certain in a proper scientific setting.) But… I don’t know. We could go with “R2R/multibit vs Delta-Sigma - Is There A Measurable Scientific Difference That's Audible”.

I don't want to take this too far off topic, but if you're interested, I highly recommend this series: https://www.pbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/. If you can, start from the beginning, as it frequently builds on previous episodes. I'm afraid I know just enough about gravitation, general...

Strictly speaking, gravity accelerates.

@KeithEmo, come join the fun here!

I'm honestly not quite sure what you mean by this. I introduced some specific concepts for clarity, but the actual points I was trying to make were very broad. I tried to avoid getting bogged down in details in order to avoid criticism of the technical aspects of the post. Much appreciated and...

I agree with your sentiment, but I wish you'd tone down the rhetoric just a little. It detracts from an otherwise valid point. @Wyville, from my perspective at least, the problem isn't that much of what you said isn't strictly correct, it's that you're arguing from a very high horse, so to...

@gregorio, I'd really like to respond to your post (particularly the questions you posed), but the way you clipped a few segments from multiple posts out of context and responded to what was a fairly high level, philosophical argument with an extreme level of technical detail makes that rather...

Hopefully it was clear that I agree the statement "Audio cables do not make a difference." is not strictly correct. But that's not what my post was about; I was trying to explain why a statement like that might come up in a thread, and why it might even be reasonable in the context of the...

I think the portion you quoted actually gets at some of the fundamental disagreements that come up repeatedly in the context of high end audio. Consider bit depth and sample rate. Mathematics tells us that, given a certain bit depth and sample rate, we can perfectly represent a continuous...

In the spirit of this discussion, it would be interesting to see examples of exactly what you're referring to. I'm certainly guilty of making such sweeping, generalized statements on occasion, but that doesn't mean I don't know such a statement is inaccurate. I do this precisely because, in the...

Could we at least start another thread with a relevant topic if we're going to do this again? I nominate "Subjectivism vs. Objectivism", which could actually be an interesting discussion (and would, hopefully, clarify the entire point point of having a Sound Science sub-forum). Unfortunately...