Why aren't the older members still active ?

I think there are much better organized technical sites without the endless repetition seen here. After answering the XLR vs RCA interconnects question for the seven hundredth time it all begins to feel rather pointless. The other aspect here is the irrational way most things are presented as being exceptionally better than something else. I recall the poster who had gone through 11 DACs and, of course, the last one he had was the absolute best he had every heard and came highly recommended. Then on the next post in the same thread it turns out that same person had just SOLD that absolute best he had ever herd DAC....go figure, I mean how trustworthy is that opinion???

I'd suggest that some folks like Tvad, simply got wise and realized that any effort to help people here is a largely a waste of time, as the discussions quickly get buried and lost in a multitude of similar discussions and inevitably, next month one will see the exact same question raised again.

Hey Rja,

I will disagree with you about amps. Blind folded, I could tell the difference between the Spectral DMA180 with the DMC 30sl pre-amp and the Audio Research D115 with SP 8 pre-amp with the Avalon Radians 100% of the time with an audiophile recording. Did that comparison a zillion times. Now with a crappy CD full of MP3 files no I could not tell the difference.

But in the long run does it really matter; the only thing that matters: are you grooving to the music that you are listening? Right now I am listening to a killer version of "Hungry" by an obscure 60s garage band, the Raunch, that probably if the mp3 recording hits 12kHz, the recording is doing good. I am playing it on a $20.00 set of Sony computer speakers with 16 gauge cables which if it is lucky hits 80Hz low and 14KHz high with probably 5-10% distortion. Am I still grooving to it even though it is not being played through Audiophile equipment; you betcha!!!

So Shadone, where is everybody going now for fun audiophile posts without it being boring trite and repetitive all the time?

I still lurk to help with music but even then I find so many folks don't really want the music so much as they just want great sounds on their newly acquired set up to validate their purchase. I pass on these inquiries as well as most equipment oriented posts - it is just pointless.

I will venture out on set up issues on occasions when I think it will be helpful. I doubt that I have posted over a dozen times in the past year.

The more I learn the less I have to say, or so it seems. Aside from that who wants to correspond with a newbee anyway. :-)

My point is, so many times when a discussion gets started someone comes in and announces that there are no differences between cables, amps, whatever. Then they say that there is no science behind these supposed differences so show me the proof. Then the discussion usually get nasty.

This gets old and tiresome after a while. Why do these people participate at all? I don't get it.

Maybe some old timers decided it just wasn't worth the trouble wading through the crap of what could otherwise have been a reasonable, sane conversation.