Rob,
I'm struggling to get a sense what zerogain is about. How would you describe it?
Joe
That in itself is a strength IMO.
I'd say it certainly sits more on the objective/scientific side than many others such as AOS, PFM, WW, Subjectivist. It is also free of any 'earth' bias, or perhaps baggage would be a better word than bias. Baggage shouldn't be taken as 'bad' in this context - indeed for many the opposite is true.
The way I see things, there is need of a forum that offers cold, hard, science based solutions to system problems.
So for example, when someone opines that their system is a tad bright, most forum answers will advise tinkering with the cables or supports in order to fine tune the system, or worse the exchanging of one flat amplifier for another.
Science demonstrates this to be ineffective, but you'll never read a suggestion to simply 'turn down the treble' or place a sheet of tissue paper in front of the tweeter dome.
Real solutions to a real problem but perhaps not the common view.
I can only speak personally and the example above indicates the direction I'm trying to push ZG. At the end of the day, the members decide so it is always very much 'push' and never dictate.
All of the online file comparisons, the cable testing, the measuring of TT feedback tests, the tube roll recording, the lossy file testing etc - all designed to take away the guesswork, supposition and bias and inject some objectivity.
The suggestion I made to you when you had no bass from your Tannoys on Naim - to insert some power resistors into the speaker lines - that's another example of what is sadly missing from today's forums.
Time will tell if there is sufficient interest for this approach.
One thing is for certain though. As I mentioned on PFM recently, this is very much seen as eliminating the mystique and feeling of belonging to a special club that dominates on forums today, and the audiophile industry more generally IMO.
As such we are never going to have 50+ active threads every day by doing something different. Think about it - when you arrive at a point where all competent amplifiers sounds very similar, cable differences are shown not to exist etc, you by definition cull much of the peripheral discussion.
Six months ago I said that if after 12 months we had 10 genuinely interesting and thought provoking threads running each day that would be success in my book.
Well things are a lot better than six month ago, albeit we get days with perhaps twelve active audio threads and others where it falls to one or two.
The above shouldn't read as a two fingered salute to those out on the far wing of subjectivism. It just means we've got a different slant here, and that statements that might perhaps pass as 'accepted' elsewhere will get challenged here.
No point having a dozen forums all doing the same thing.
