This is probably a grand non-sequitur, as I have not been reading the thread for a couple of weeks and therefore have no idea what you're currently discussing. But it is on-topic in any other reasonable sense of what is on and off topic. Revisiting Zeroth Things Zeroth Why though? I'm taking a...

Not quite right, according to my dictionary. Or Wiktionary. Or my understanding of language. Follow the links, keep all noted meanings in mind and see if you understand me a bit better then. Very well stated and I fully agree, I'm sorry if I've been unclear enough that someone would think I...

Thankyou for that link, that is an awesome collection of top quality puns!

Whether a completed product contains 100% your own technology always depends on where you draw the limit between technology and components. And that is a slippery slope: specific function IC:s, microprocessors, transistors, resistors, base materials? It is technology all the way down! So where...

According to 15 year old memories of something that was 20 years ago, thus doubly untrustworthy... they did not have a list price in Sweden but were calculated from the price in DKK upon order. And that was in the vicinity of 400,000 DKK. If that is correct, then according to HifiShark the used...

I find jargon that I don't know to be nonsense and confusing upon first contact, but not meant to confuse or mislead. Like almost all of language, the purpose is to enable and ease communication, not hamper it - however, it is created within a small group and by default not readily understood by...

I see your point, but I don't fully agree, as I think still doesn't quite capture it correctly. Maybe "able to adequately recreate dynamics in quiet passages". But "adequately recreate" may be wrong if it is possible to have too much of this, exaggerating these same dynamics. Yes: we don't...

Some recent postings caused me to remember my favourite tune by Meja: https://tidal.com/track/490404 Which in turn caused me to think about my favourite album of hers: https://tidal.com/album/242295108 ---- On jargon: eventually, some of it settles into terminology. Which can be crucial to...

The FR-1 is the largest sounding on-wall speaker I have ever heard, it is seriously impressive with good amplification. But I can't quite stand the lack of a ribbon. My brother likes them a lot though, having had them for a couple of years. He does not miss the ribbons. We do hear differently...

Huh? How do you figure? I'd expect it won't happen unless they happen to hire an engineer on the digital side that somehow happens to be both good at writing and willing to take on the challenge.

I enjoy them a lot, for their dual ribbon/dome tweeter configuration. There is something about the top octave or two that dome tweeters have veeeeery hard time with, according to my ears. Mentor 2 at my place, Mentor 6 at my parents place, Ikon 7 that was previously at my parents place now at...

Just wanted to say, the last few pages of banter have been hilarious! Thanks to all for all the laughs. Then again... what do you think a stranger to the thread would think of us, if this giant heap of sarcasm and ribbing and vintage in-jokes happened to be their first contact with the thread?

The defensive artist is loudly sticking to their guns. Groupthink is the opposite problem, people quietly bowing down. But both of those are equally on the same wrong end of the spectrum of what I'm speaking of: how facts-based and open and non-judging of a discussion climate there is in the...

I can try again, but the latter part of that post was my first attempt, so this may be a bit of repeat. Hopefully with more clarity? I choose the words in part due to the forum we're in and that phrase having been used recently in the thread, but also in part because the art in the engineering...

That more or less included all scientists. Philosopher is a lover of knowledge.

Well, science is not meant to be a religion at all. So mistreating it, misrepresenting it or misapplying it as if it was religion - that if anything is a false religion. Science is not a religion and technology is not magic! Science is meant to be practiced and perused by critical thinkers...

Rational thinking and logical thinking are important tools to a programmer, but so is abstract thinking. Perhaps most important in this category is to think of logical, rational, abstractions. But the most important thing that can be learned in higher education, especially in engineering, is to...

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Is there any reason not to go to Midgard style metal? For a fully passive, "balanced Sys", I thought that was a given.

"in comparison with" would be correct here. "to" is correct in another usage, when saying that there are similarities. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/compare

Only time-travellers and higher beings and such. Refer to Jason's law, or Murphy's.

Sounds good, but what about the client? A music library needs to be browsed, if you ask me. Both from my phone and from my desktop. And the latter needs to work quite differently from the former! If you don't give me table view where I can choose which columns to display, and easily sort and...

From really really close to when I hit post reply, yes. In my local timezone (CET) so a few hours more for America. I ended up less than 10 seconds off IIRC, don't remember which way. Could probably work it out from logs but that seems... excessive. I get time in seconds from now to the...

If you're counting time by the hour, you're not really fixating. It is really 2 498 150 seconds to February!