Where's NwAvGuy?

Discussion in 'Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units' started by mtoc, Nov 19, 2015.

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  1. chakku

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    This actually made me a little curious as I didn't know he posted there at all.

    I have to say the O2 thread somebody made (long after NwAvGuy had already stopped posting on the site) made me lose quite a bit of respect for spritzer. The entirety of his input in the thread with people trying to discuss the amp was insults being thrown both at his board design and him personally, as well as taking every opportunity taken to spread rumors such as going commercial being his ultimate plan and whatnot.

    I applaud Tyll for (mostly, some of the more angry posts made me chuckle heartily) calmly pointing out when somebody was out of line from both sides of the ring. I wonder if you know regret not taking him up on that offer he threw at you for blind-testing, but who knows if he would have folllowed through with it given his anonymity.
     
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    I think I just saw him wearing a red and white striped... wait... that was someone else.
     
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    I talked to him on the phone a couple of times...it wasn't Jason.
     
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    He used one of those Vader voice translators

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  8. Tyll Hertsens

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    Nah. I had his address at one point as well..but I've trashed everything and forgotten. I figured I'd respect his privacy.

    He seemed like a nice enough guy talking to him. Mostly tech talk.
     
  9. purr1n

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    The dude was ultra paranoid. He's posted on CS, but via proxies. BTW, all proxy servers are owned by the USA government.
     
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    When someone, anyone, feels threatened mainly for his/her opinions and contributions, right or wrong, I feel something is wrong. No need to be paranoid.

    If someone is mistaken or way off, it should be relatively straight forward to prove this person wrong. Many times we may grow and learn if that person is just partially wrong and right in some other ways. Sometimes it is we who are wrong.

    A hobby should be a place to learn and have fun.

    I understand NwAvGuy made some folks uncomfortable. But in some ways he was not entirely wrong. If fact I can say I learned (or re-learned or whatever) from him. And do miss his contributions.

    As far as his O2, I will say this. In my mind Cmoy did not invent the non-inverting op-amp. That thing is in any electronics text book and you hit that anytime you start reading about op-amps. Right after becoming acquainted with the diff amp which is it's building block. My read of what he is doing is a voltage gain stage followed by a current buffer which are actually two paralleled buffers for more drive. The DC blocking caps are between the voltage gain and the current buffers so that they see a large resistance and have a low frequency roll off (around 1.8 Hz). The amp is also somewhat regulated. I like what he did. Is it perfect? No. But I think is pretty good for $80 if you include a half decent chassis like Massdrop did.

    Again. Some may not agree with me. But I would love to see him again. This time in a more down to earth environment where we can discuss shit and laugh.
     
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    Do you hate him so much because he said something negative about Schiit? lel
     
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    No, I dislike him because he spawned mindless idiots like you (I've noted in your total of three posts that you have posted nothing of substance - in fact, only the opposite) and then went back to his hidey hole. :rolleyes: TBH, I don't even know what he said bad about Schiit. Contrary to what people may believe, I don't keep up with the drama.
     
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    My deepest apologies for questioning your superiority and infallibility.
    I, a mindless puppet, will now return to my NwAvGuy shrine, where I'm going to make love to my modified o2-Fleshlight edition.
     
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    That's to be respected. I've no real wish to see him "outed" against his desire.

    Isn't that what the Tor thing comes in handy for?
     
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    Wasn't there some talk about him working for (or being) the JDS guy? Since JDS magically got some fancy measurement gear shortly after he disappeared. The O2 gushiness in the jds blog and similar writing styles were also suspect.

    I read some of the initial posts on headcase. Maybe there were a few parts where he was skeptically well received, but he was also a dick in others with lots of unnecessary phallic flagellation and posturing and calling people out.

    He made repeated attacks/criticisms on Ti Kan and Schiit. To bring something up once is one thing, but to repeatedly beat a horse on a private blog while simultaneously proclaiming how your secretawesomesaucethatsactuallythousandislandsandrelish is better is dishonest and underhanded. Especially when you use big fat numbers and graphs that frankly most people don't understand. But hey, graphs and numbers make you an authority right? Especially when there's so much yammering prose around each one that no one actually reads it.

    He built his reputation by slagging on well known names and riding on their coat tails. His blog and his vaunted specialsauce would be nowhere near as popular if he didn't start off his career by attacking big name players.
     
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    Yup, Tor is nice for people who live under repressive regimes to communicate to the outside. In the film industry, there are actually legit businesses in banana republics who need to use Tor in order to download legit content. Haha. It's funny because we would prefer to block Tor, but we simply can't because it's being used for legit business.

    I've blocked CS users who used Tor on a consistent basis in the past. The exit nodes are known and published. I know who comes in under proxies or Tor here. Generally, a red flag are raised if they do so. (This is nothing secret or illegal here). For some reason, nwavguy minions tend to use Tor or proxies.
     
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    I came along after the NwAvGuy saga was over. Did read his blog in its entirety. It so happened that I own/owned some of the components he discussed. To say that I disagreed with his sonic assessments would be an understatement. Then, there's the O2, the single worst sounding component I've heard that was aimed at a discriminating audience. It's as if the man is literally deaf. This brings about the question as to why this individual is receiving a lot of attention, when the only he has going is a big mouth?

    Edit: typos
     
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    Woah he made an Objective Fleshlight? Hopefully it doesn't clip. That could be painful.
     
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    One size fits all!
     
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