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On a positive note, the best way to deal with clueless self proclaimed "experts" that argue incessantly with self aggrandizing, self promotional blather and nonsense is to simply ignore them. Every forum has them and for newbies, it can be a little daunting trying to decipher between those who are legitimate subject matter experts and the village idiots.  In general, the village idiots are the ones who never come up with solid information on their own but spend most of their time praising  the anointed "experts" while antagonizing any who offer "new" or "different" information. The other form of "village idiot" that constantly antagonizes others while no one ever seems to respond - it's pretty safe to assume that as most everyone has given up communicating with them, it's probably a good idea not to bother trying yourself. Another helpful hint in avoiding needless conflict with village idiots or people who do nothing more than contribute anger, frustration, and argument is to check other similar online forums with similar sounding member handles. A member search on forums like DIY audio, Stereophile, AudioHeritage will often reveal that such village idiots have a long, proven track record of unchecked stupid, aggravating, or otherwise annoying behavior.  Armed with these tools, we don't have to always get sucked in to the next stupid argument. As they say, it takes at least two....

I'd say if your desire is learning, there are better resources. Mr. Carlson's Lab on YouTube. Diyaudio.com. Passdiy.com. The Burning Amp lectures. Just to name a few. Reading people discussing the finer points of gain device characteristics is a much more fascinating endeavor than reading amatures rattling on about exotic fuses. 

There are quite a few people on this forum that come to learn.  Yes, often they are misguided while learning because they don't have a complete grasp or understanding of the original subject matter.  Several people have gained a real education here.  Probably not village idiots in the beginning, but definitely not as time goes on. 

This would be about the last place I'd go I'd I was trying to troubleshoot foldback current limiting, crossover slopes, or thermal management. A large segment of this crowd goes batty when you begin talking measurements and formulas. 

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I’d say if your desire is learning, there are better resources. Mr. Carlson’s Lab on YouTube. Diyaudio.com. Passdiy.com. The Burning Amp lectures. Just to name a few. Reading people discussing the finer points of gain device characteristics is a much more fascinating endeavor than reading amatures rattling on about exotic fuses.

>>>>It appears there are a great many folks who are extremely “circuit-focused” and who refuse to even consider there’s anything else to this hobby other than measurements and circuits of gain devices. That group, as manifested over on DIYAudio (and elsewhere), comprises some of THE most closed-minded and dismissive people I’ve ever seen. Any topic or concept that’s more than 1 Sigma away from the group and the moderator there is quickly attacked and deep six’d. The Blowtorch thread over on DIYAudio, where John Curl holds forth (at least John himself is not nearly so hyper focused) is up to what, 3 million posts? Including his disciples, the ones with glistening eyes. 😳 That’s 3 Million posts, people, not views. Can you say Hyper focused? He-loo!

Knowledge can be defined as what’s left after you subtract everything you forgot from school. The education system has been broken for like forever anyway,

have a nice day 😃