There is a huge disconnect between these hoodoos and sound quality. I think there’s more of a connection between these products and the desire to pick the pockets of gullible consumers. Imagine if medicine by crowd sourcing impressions. We give you a pill for free, if your cancer feels better...

The loudest sound ever recorded was 194dB. It was the eruption of Krakatoa, and it was heard as far as 3000 miles away.

Word salad aimed at stupid gullible people. All bells are optimized for sound. Making sound is the primary purpose of any bell, and it doesn’t take Einstein to figure that out.

Well, at least they’ve slowed down a bit. I have to admit. That post really doesn’t require a reply. Self evident.

That won’t stop him. We’ve seen that in the past.

He has been thread crapping. We have several trolls doing that right now.

Ten years away and then the first thing he does is incessant trolling? That just doesn't sound likely to me. If I was an admin, I would start logging IP addresses and when I applied a ban, I would do an IP ban, not an account ban. (I've been an admin for a high traffic entertainment site in the...

It goes back to 2014, but look at his posting history. He posted once in 2014, then no more posts until he landed on us.

I don't think Watts is dumb. I think he knows exactly what he is saying and why he is saying it.

I wonder why he doesn't have a past reputation in this forum?

If he has nothing new to add to the conversation, just dismiss him. Quotes and replies are for carrying on a conversation. That isn't possible with these trolls. He isn't the guy he claims to be. He is spoofing and the admins are lazy enough to not check.

A suggestion... the longer the reply you make to him, the more opportunity he has to generate even longer replies to you. One sentence with as few words as possible does the job as well as paragraphs, and it doesn't invite engagement. Don't ignore him, don't engage him, just shut him down. Don't...

Sit down and shut up.

That isn’t his website. He’s spoofing.

I’ve been here a long time. Sound Science didn’t used to be like this. We are definitely under attack.

That’s because the forum keeps getting co opted by loudmouth contrarians who want to argue basic things like the scientific method and controlled testing, and extremely specific, cherry picked irrelevancies that they flog over and over, ignoring all replies. They liberally sprinkle their...

It isn’t hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. The problem is the admins aren’t doing it.

He won’t stop if we ignore him. That has never worked in the past. The only thing that has ever stopped these guys is for it to build up to a head where the admins step in. If the moderation came earlier and lighter in the beginning, these guys wouldn’t be emboldened to thread crap like this...

It’s easy to be completely wrong when you dismiss knowledgeable input and the tools to determine the facts and rely on half baked theories that are nothing more than wishful thinking and fantasy. It’s even worse when you try to sell that baloney to other people. It’s not going to get him far in...

If moderators would moderate to keep the conversation on track, it wouldn’t keep ending up like this. A gentle nudge in the right direction early on would prevent it from becoming a car crash that requires draconian clean up much later. Don’t worry about the comments being taken out of context...

And even if Vangelis or Tomita decided they wanted to create a “symphony for square wave”, by the time you popped the CD in your player, it wouldn’t be a square wave any more. You’d need something other than digital audio to play it on.

I want to add witch doctor to the description as a used car salesman.

It’s a song from Can Landed. That album is great. It’s like Remain in Light and Before and After Science long before those albums existed. Holger Czukay was Can’s bassist and engineer. Eno learned his tricks from him.

I’m sorry. You are not anywhere close to Einstein. You’re more like a used car salesman than a scientist.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - H. L. Menken If I was you, I would be ashamed.