Thanks Alex_T
Thanks DrG, that's a good amount of typos missed bits!
I accept and agree with most items, they have been changed.
The "Buy whichever type" bit is in because the article is specifically relating to two different types of technology.. I'll think about that and see what the others involved feel about it also.
Hey listen, and sincerely, I want to respond to that...because I think that your response to my comments are appropriate, nicely phrased and sound sincere. You asked for input and some was provided. I appreciate the acknowledgement and response.
I have done a good deal of professional scientific writing over several decades, publishing a relatively large number of reports in peer-reviewed scientific journals. A much larger number, if you include, collectively, numerous tech. reports, white papers, proposals, briefings and presentations. Of course, I have been a reviewer for the same.
In some respects, sometimes, I am a decent writer....but it NEVER has come easily. It has almost always come from a good deal of re-writing and critical evaluation and with a great deal of time and effort.
To this day, however, my reflexive response to any criticism of something I have written is....%$#@ you %$#@ your XXXXXX and %$#@ the XXXX that %$#@&* your XXXXXX to give birth to you. Through necessity (you would be surprised at how many people don't care to hear my reflexive response
) I learned to give my reflex a bit of time and then ask myself honestly whether or not the suggested change improves the writing. I do not believe that for most people this is an easy place to get to and that is why I am mentioning as much. You are, apparently, already there and I hope you would agree. If someone can not get to that place, they will find it very difficult to improve their writing (maybe they can just use software and not have to deal with humans at all).
So, I wanted to get that out.
As for the general idea of the site - sure - why not? Debunking through education is a hallmark of critical thinking. I hope that I will always be for that!
As for a caution, know that if it becomes successful, it will be a HUGE time sink for you...a trap.
As for suggestions...not being an audiophile but being a long-time lover of a great deal of music, two things I would like to see...
1) An honest and credible discussion of human hearing written by someone (not me) with the required SME. As I already posted, I have a hard time getting over the realities of that, relative to what can be some comparatively minor differences in equipment - but, again, I am not an audiophile - think Silvertone, not Marantz.
2) An honest and credible discussion of mp3 and those lossless standards/protocols. While I think that all of that EE experience is obviously valuable, it is also from being part of the evolution of the industry and keeping modern (state-of-the-art as you said somewhere) may be important for attracting the under 100 crowd.
After all - even that bone phone has become modernized:
TOKYO, Jan 21, 2004 - Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of Internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls...
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