In Sound Science lately there’s been enough hot air to levitate us all like a balloon!

I would find it cathartic to move the xxxx on. When he is posting it’s one thing. But continuing on after he’s stopped just encourages him to come back for more fun at our expense. It’s been six hours.

We know all that already.

The low level trolls are allowed to continually defy science and insert insults against the participants in this forum as a whole. They tread the line carefully and it ends up being "death by a thousand cuts". I think that someone who refuses to respect the scientific method, established science...

The admin team at Head-Fi have seemingly expressed no interest in our forum. I think it needs to be someone who follows this forum like Castle. It's hard to drop into a back and forth that goes back multiple pages and know what's going on. And as I said before, I think there needs to be...

Yes. It was just allowed to go on longer after it hit critical mass. It was clear where he was headed from the beginning. He was emboldened by not getting in trouble and ramped it up quickly. It's easy to think that attacks on other people are less serious than attacks on you and yours. I have...

I can’t believe anyone would think that was an anomaly. This forum is dysfunctional and it isn’t because the forum members can’t resist feeding the trolls. I’ve been accused of that in the past and I was no more responsible then than you are now.

Welcome back.

Find people to interact with that you respect. Follow your bliss. Don’t look back.

You were invited to start a thread. In this thread, you should lurk until you understand its purpose. Don’t square up for a fight.

That is completely unfair. People come in here with the specific purpose of making us mad, then they cry that we are “a bunch of meanies” when we return it in kind. There are two alternatives… 1) Admins moderate the forum consistently to minimize conflict, and 2) in the absence of moderation...

TOS 1, 2 and 5… 1. Be polite. No attacks. Attacking the members in this forum as a group is done all the time by these trolls. “The people at sound science are stupid/deluded/drinking the kool aid, etc.” That isn’t a one on one attack, but it’s still an attack and it’s a pretty good barometer...

It’s just that starting a specific topic in here is going to get lost in the meta convos

Sunjam wasn’t entirely straightforward. He knew what he was doing. He did it before and had run into trouble. He didn’t care.

No, I’d like to see a group of volunteers get together and work up a strategy and guidelines that they all implement. Admins are always volunteers. Putting it all on the shoulders of one person isn’t fair.

Please start a thread. It would be good to have a topic that is free of land mines.

Absolutely. This isn’t castle’s fault. Perhaps it’s time for more of the regulars to be given admin status, and a back and forth discussion among them can be started to establish what will and won’t be tolerated. I think there should be consideration of light punishments up front, rather than...

If trolls get the message that if you troll they will delete you, they’ll think twice about wasting their time. That is EXACTLY what we need to get across. This is the sound science forum. It’s where we discuss sound science. If someone wants to talk about something else, they can go somewhere...

Exactly. It shouldn’t have been allowed to get that out of hand. Imagine sound science where we don’t have to constantly debunk basic concepts that are self evident… a forum where we discuss sound science, not do battles with trolls all the time. I can imagine what that would be like. It would...

PLEASE don’t let trolls get that far. Use temporary thread bans to enforce civility. These guys telegraphed where they were headed from the very beginning. If someone starts out rejecting sound science as a concept and as a forum, and immediately starts getting aggressive with regular posters...

I thought he was comparing cables, but it seems he’s comparing android and apple. In any case, he has too many variables in play to know anything at all. To compare android vs Apple, you would need two cables feeding from the two phones playing the same file into a preamp for level matching...

I’m not sure what you’re trying to test for. If you are testing DACs, then just test DACs, don’t let different headphones muddle up the test. Isolate what you’re testing for. That said, doing ABX tests of headphones isn’t just difficult, it’s pointless. Even two sets of cans of the same make...

Then your level matching wasn’t accurate enough. What you describe as the difference perfectly matches a slight level imbalance. And different headphones are always going to sound different.

In order to compare, you need to level match. Different DACs will have different line level. And it's possible that the EQ function only works with the same brand of phone.

If your sub is powered, crossing over at 80 instead of 50 will take a load off your mains. Bass takes power, and you want to use the sub to make it easier on the mains.