Audiocluelessness in the Forums?

[highfihoney]

That being said, I am amazed at the number of "enthusiasts" on this site giving advice to others who have no practical experience with some of the products either being reviewed or asked about. If you have obviously no practical experience with the gear (or like gear) that someone asks about in a thread, why are you responding? Are your thoughts really going to be helpful? If a $35 power strip from - insert wholesale outlet here - works for your set-up, great. Recommend it to people with similar gear. But, for goodness sake does it belong in a thread about a high-end dedicated theater room? It is close minded and not helpful to people who are actually looking for something different than what you own.

The recent JLAudio F112 review thread is a great example of what I am talking about. Great product, intended for a certain type of market (the review even said as much) and people just start trying to bash it because they chose to spend less (some times astronomically less) or could spend less and satisfy their individual needs. They aren’t trying to add anything tangible or discuss their real life experiences with the product or anything even similar to it. Are people really that insecure with their purchases that they feel the need to justify their choices? Do you really need to state that it isn’t a good value if A: You’ve never heard it, and B: You’ve never owned anything in the same product category?

I had to quote these paragraps because i 100% agree with every word in them,people should not give advice on gear they are clueless as to how it performs or sounds just because they understand how their system works & can read online specs.

I have seen quite a few instances where in the fever to bash anything that is not mass produced at low cost posters have given terrible advice (based on reading specs) that would not benifit the OP's system needs.

Reading online specs & then offering advice will not help anybody achieve maximun performance from their system 99% of the time.

 

[highfihoney]

A reasonable person will not look down on others but I can assure you that if one doesn't exhibit good writing and speaking skills in an interview he/she will be passed over for the job.

Hi mds.

I am in the position of giving interviews & hiring people & i assure this is not the case at all,i agree about speaking skills but spelling skills are worthless in most professions in this day & age,spell check has done for spelling what the calculator did for mathematics.Take my case for an example,i cant spell worth a damm but i have a high paying job that has me in charge of millions upon millions of corporate dollars every month & believe me spelling had nothing do do with why i was promoted over highly educated people,also when my reports hit the corporate office they are as professional looking & spelled as well as anybody elses who can spell perfectly thanks to spell check programs.

My requirements for hiring a person are based on the hands on skills they can demonstrate & their ability at problem solving in real time conditions,i only briefly glance at a prospects resume then i want to see how this person reacts to tasks i give them & how they solve problems that can have more than one outcome.

After hiring & firing men for over 15 years now ive learned to look right past things like being impressed with a persons dress,spelling,color,hair,breath ect & focus on their hands on skills that pertain to the job in question .

Im not saying that there are not recruiters who focus on spelling but i am saying that there are just as many recruiters who look past spelling & focus on things like problem solving & common sense,i am one of the latter.