From: David Taylor on
On 2008-06-21, Raymond Keattch <ray.keattch(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 21/06/2008 20:07:17, The Real Doctor wrote:
>> On 21 Jun, 17:33, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, look. A website set up to flog a myriad of expensive car cleaning
>>> products. I wonder why they'll be stressing the benefits of using a
>>> myriad of expensive car cleaning products?
>>
>> Odd, that. It's like the way people selling hi-fi always seem to be
>> able to hear differences which the rest of us can't. Even odder, the
>> differences in both cases seem to be directly proportional to the cost
>> of the product.
>
> That will be why I chose the �30 interconnects over the �150 ones.

But bought both....

--
David Taylor
From: Brimstone on
David Taylor wrote:
> On 2008-06-22, Raymond Keattch <ray.keattch(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am not the manufacturer trying to blind you with science and
>> neither do I gain financialy from you agreeing about the product.
>> However, I am an individual who has used the products discussed on
>> my own car over the past year.
>
> But you have proven yourself repeatedly in this thread to lack any
> sense of objectivity. It's all wooley subjective richness and
> deepness and clarity...
>
> Which have all been proven, repeatedly, to be complete bollocks when
> the same people are asked to compare products under scientific
> double-blind conditions (i.e. where their pre-conceptions _can't_
> affect the result).

How does that explain his wife's and son's comments?


From: Clive George on
"David Taylor" <davidt-news(a)yadt.co.uk> wrote in message
news:slrng5sb47.td3.davidt-news(a)outcold.yadt.co.uk...
> On 2008-06-22, Raymond Keattch <ray.keattch(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On 21/06/2008 22:41:05, The Real Doctor wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> As I recall, he said he had to travel four hours each way to do the
>>> job for you. Did he not make any charge for travelling time?
>>
>> I still didn't pay for my car to be washed.
>
> He didn't even wash it!?

And not even twice after it got mowed on :-)

I wonder if the polishing man was paid a fixed pre-arranged price for the
job, or time and materials. Ray?

From: David Taylor on
On 2008-06-22, Brimstone <brimstone520-ng02(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> David Taylor wrote:
>> On 2008-06-22, Raymond Keattch <ray.keattch(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not the manufacturer trying to blind you with science and
>>> neither do I gain financialy from you agreeing about the product.
>>> However, I am an individual who has used the products discussed on
>>> my own car over the past year.
>>
>> But you have proven yourself repeatedly in this thread to lack any
>> sense of objectivity. It's all wooley subjective richness and
>> deepness and clarity...
>>
>> Which have all been proven, repeatedly, to be complete bollocks when
>> the same people are asked to compare products under scientific
>> double-blind conditions (i.e. where their pre-conceptions _can't_
>> affect the result).
>
> How does that explain his wife's and son's comments?

They weren't made under double blind conditions.

--
David Taylor
From: Steve Firth on
David Taylor <davidt-news(a)yadt.co.uk> wrote:

> You've bought two sets of interconnects, totalling �180. Yet you're
> using the �30 ones. Thus totally wasting �150 (well, more like �175,
> but still).

More than that TBH. I've been using "interconnects" although for some
reason we call them "leads", for signals that are a damn sight more
demanding than audio for many years. We tend to knock them up ourselves
and the quality is generally better than any off-the-shelf stuff. I also
make up my own HiFi leads. To make something that works well is simple.

The bollocks about "open sound stage" and "transparent listening
experience" etc is just that, bollocks.

I had an argument with a cretin at Currys about the rip-off price of
their HDMI leads recently. He tried to tell me that the superior quality
of the their leads would enhance my listening and viewing pleasure. The
fact that HDMI is digital seemed to have escaped his attention.

Similarly, some plonks are paying Denon �500 for a "HiFi interconnect",
which is an ethernet cable, because it improves the sound.

No doubt the same individuals are out sacrificing goats at midnight and
smearing the blood on their CDs.