lak " ... Seems mighty easy for the naysayers to call products 'snake oil' when they never tried the product.
Before you bash something and say it can’t work you should try it for yourself, and then state your thoughts based upon your experience, good or bad ..."
I think you're correct, lak, but you miss the point. The naysayers you mention are mostly interested in touting their expertise and prowess, not in actually going to the trouble of trying a product. Some of these self-proclaimed experts will even profess to know how a poster's entire system will sound - they insist they can do this because of their familiarity with such a wide variety of equipment, their unique engineering skills, their intimate knowledge of circuit design, and so on. We have one contributor here who insists he alone has identified a critical form of distortion that no one else has ever detected and that even he himself can't measure. But he's designed a circuit that can "correct" this elusive, immeasurable, unfathomable distortion.
You and I can't change the behavior of these pretenders to a throne, lak. Really the best thing to do is to just ignore them. Their proclamations are sometimes so absurd that it's hard to remain silent, however. I get that. When their posts verge into the name-calling and profane, the best thing to do is alert the moderators. I've had excellent cooperation from the moderating team here.
Before you bash something and say it can’t work you should try it for yourself, and then state your thoughts based upon your experience, good or bad ..."
I think you're correct, lak, but you miss the point. The naysayers you mention are mostly interested in touting their expertise and prowess, not in actually going to the trouble of trying a product. Some of these self-proclaimed experts will even profess to know how a poster's entire system will sound - they insist they can do this because of their familiarity with such a wide variety of equipment, their unique engineering skills, their intimate knowledge of circuit design, and so on. We have one contributor here who insists he alone has identified a critical form of distortion that no one else has ever detected and that even he himself can't measure. But he's designed a circuit that can "correct" this elusive, immeasurable, unfathomable distortion.
You and I can't change the behavior of these pretenders to a throne, lak. Really the best thing to do is to just ignore them. Their proclamations are sometimes so absurd that it's hard to remain silent, however. I get that. When their posts verge into the name-calling and profane, the best thing to do is alert the moderators. I've had excellent cooperation from the moderating team here.