[net.audio] suggestion

rostain (11/16/82)

	I would like to make a general suggestion.  I know some recent articles
have become too technical for me, and I suspect this is also true for others.
Can we get off the subject of re:re:re:re:re:re:re:dynamic range, and move on
to other less confusing issues?  --- Alain

shauns@sri-unix (11/18/82)

    ...warning-flame follows...

    The reason a lot of these technically oriented articles have been appearing
    on the net is apparently because rabbit!jj and others get inundated by
    poorly informed statements and reply to the net to clear up the matter for
    EVERYBODY.  I feel that this is a useful service, the abusive language
    nonwithstanding.

    net.audio is net.audio and not net.music or net.records 
    exactly so that technical discussions about audio can have a proper forum.
    Eliminating technical discussions from net.audio would render it little more
    than a product review column, which, if you read the various slick rag
    columns on that subject, tends to be boring, boring, boring.

    One of the big problems with the audio industry is rampant technical
    quackery which unfortunately is kept alive by consumers with insufficient
    desire to be critical or with inadequate information on which to base
    their judgement.
    Discussion of technical subjects on the net does much to offload the
    excessive audio cowboy baggage that this hobby seems to carry.

    Incidentally, in the interest of increasing the consciousness of audiophilia
    everywhere, why don't those posters who are mailing their comments to
    rabbit!jj post them to the net and give everybody a chance to comment or
    at least figure out what rabbit!jj is commenting on? The topics appear
    most interesting!

    ...end flame...


				Shaun Simpkins

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davy (11/21/82)

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pur-ee!davy    Nov 21 00:38:00 1982


	Warning.....more flaming......

	Sure, net.audio is for technical discussions.  But couldn't we
	keep it down to a somewhat easier level?  I don't understand 
	all this Decibel-Whojamawhatsis-Wave Theory stuff, simply because
	it's TOO technical for me.

	I don't mind reading technical stuff, but it helps if I can under-
	stand what the hell the other guy is saying.  If you're going to
	submit something technical, try to explain things well enough that
	people who aren't quite as well-versed in the subject can still
	understand.

	I think that's what was Alain was really trying to say.

--Dave Curry
pur-ee!davy