1-Everything has a 'culture'. So yeah, it's unavoidable in absolute terms. 2-I'm venerated somewhere?! Thou shalt NOT worship false idols!!
or I don't kill Tyll and vice versa.
It not just busting your chops, it's taking the effort to show the BS. Here is a recent example: http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,2613.msg74262.html#msg74262Rather than argue with words based on "thought exercises", best to demonstrate or actually try it.
As as reminder from 2012: http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,487.msg8923.html#msg8923Probably the closest thing to a vision document. Supposedly Jude was really pissed off at this. I am not sure why.I actually have an update, but not sure if I want to publish it. Some things have changed. Most things not so much.
At one point, the tagline was "too objectivist for subjectists, too subjective for objectivists"That would be the Captain - me - with help from everyone else here. Few people really know that Changstar has actually changed throughout the years to reflect its member-base. From time to time, I do steer Changstar in a certain direction, the rest take it from there. It's true that early on, we tended more toward objectivist. I felt this was necessary because there were absolutely no objective reference points on HF back then. At this point in time, at least people know that Goldenears, Innerfidelity, Sonove, Changstar, exist to get additional data points in terms of measurements. This is a HUGE change from the "dark ages".Somewhere along the way, coinciding with the rise of nwavguy, a few of the crazy type of objectivists landed here (presumably because they had the same initial perception that you had). So I started to steer Changstar toward a more subjectivist stance. Part of this is because these crazy type of objectivists were felt that they needed to impart their views upon others by force via incessant posting and stupid arguing.Also sometimes we've acted "meaner" to keep people away. Other times we've acted "nicer" to encourage people to come. The main consideration for this was actually server CPU and bandwidth. So far, we have decent capacity... until the end of 2015.Basically, it's maintaining proper balance. You'll hear me say not too tight and not too loose. I think this applies to everything in life. It certainly applies to driving cars on the track, raising kids, or building headphone audio systems, etc.Changstar is not truth. It's method. I actually kicked / banned one guy who said that the reason he was here was because we were about "truth". Truth is about as true as wire-with-gain. The people who have been around here a while understand that Changstar is "method". This is why OJ doesn't kill n3rdling and vice versa or I don't kill Tyll and vice versa.This is also why religious people of the crazy type who think that their religion is absolute truth want to kill everyone else or convert them to the "true" church.
Wait...this is an option? Must rethink my stance....
Anax. The Vatican just called. They need your full name, and they wanted to know if I had seen you do any miracles. I think you might be up for canonization man.
Why? Why would people not like you? If it was not for your website I would not have joined this crew of audio pirates.You are one of the people who keeps this hobby alive with a good dose of common sense.
