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De?: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] De
la part de David Kirkby
Envoyé?: vendredi 5 août 2005 20:21
À?: John T. M. Lyles
Cc?: amps@contesting.com
Objet?: Re: [Amps] audio black magic TSPA
John T. M.>> http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/audiophools.pdf
Lyles wrote:
> Following is an excerpt from a 1998 Stereophile
> magazine review of a particular Kinergetics power
> amplifier, to explain what I am talking about:
>
<snip>
But that is most unlikely to happen again.
The very valid point made by the author of
http://www.g8wrb.org/useful-stuff/audiophools.pdf
is that the publishers of audiophool magazines have a conflict of
interest. It is not in their interest to tell you what a waste of money
the speaker cables are when the companies selling to the audiophool
market provide the publishers advertising revenue.
It's like all the computer magazines tell you how you need 64-bit
computers. None seem to point out that for 99.9% of uses, a 64-bit
computer is a complete and utter waste of time. There was a 5 or so page
article in Personal Computer World about a year ago, telling us that
64-bit computers do floating point calculations needed in games faster
and more accurate than 32-bit computers. Funny enough, when I wrote and
said that all Intel CPUs that have floating point support in hardware
(i.e. 8087, 80287, 80387, 486, Pentiums) all use 80-bits internally, and
64 bits to store the number in memory, that letter was never published.
It is clearly in the interest of computer magazines to push 64-bit
computers, so their advertisers will place adds in magazines telling you
how good they are. No computer company is going to place adds in
magazines that are telling you that buying a 64-bit machine is a waste
of time for the vast majority of people.
PS
I am using a 64-bit computer, that's around 7 years old.
--
David Kirkby,
G8WRB
Please check out http://www.g8wrb.org/
of if you live in Essex http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/
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