Is Amir nwavguy

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  1. Cspirou

    Cspirou They call me Sparky

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    Short highly speculative answer is that he's NWAVGuy.

    Longer answer is that this isn't an aberration with one brand. There are many many many causes over several forums that he has somehow attached himself to and he needs to push his view on it as much as he can. This goes back to HD-DVD vs Blu-ray, and he was hated back then too.
     
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    There's almost no chance that Amir is Nwavguy.
    1. The style of their writeups is vastly different
    2. There's no motive for someone with a long history of posting under his own name to switch to alias and then back again. They weren't even active on the same topic at the same time so Nwavguy can't even have been a sockpuppet.
    3. Even if you disagree with his conclusions, Nwavguy knew his shit way better than Amir
    This is basically the opposite of Jimster480's conspiracy theory that Jason is allowed to post under Jude's account...
     
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  3. Cspirou

    Cspirou They call me Sparky

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    Well this is all circumstantial evidence but this is my reasoning:

    1. Both are from the pacific northwest
    2. Both would go to several forums for unsolicited argument to spread the gospel and got banned
    3. Both constantly link back to their own site
    4. both believe that everything can be determined from objective measurements alone
    5. both do not like Schiit
    6. both think paying for a more expensive DAC for SQ is useless
    7. both really like their color coded labeling

    Now this doesn't amount to a smoking gun, but it's not unreasonable either. As far as them not being the same guy because nwavguy was better, it's been 5 years and people do change. Maybe he was just more careful back then. Is this conspiracy theory territory? sure. But it's a mistake I can recover from if the real NWAVGuy decides to reveal himself.

    I will however just call him Amir going forward, which shouldn't occur too often since this thread should close the discussion of ever taking him seriously. Even if he suddenly makes good measurements and better conclusions, he's poisoned the well too much for me to read his stuff again.
     
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    If Amir is nwaguy then he has gone down hill in the last few years. Which is saying something depending on your opinion of the latter. The fact that Amir is using his real identity online also fails to add up.
     
  5. purr1n

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    Maybe nwavguy is Amir's son, son of Amir.
     
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    Reading some of the take-down reviews on Schiit components, this Amir individual is surprisingly ignorant. The criticisms of Schiit soldering is just wrong (at least in the pics he posted on the Sys). Further, he thinks the holes in transformer laminations are bolt holes for mounting the transformers to a PCB (Lyr takedown).

    P.S. He also doesn't know about the soft metal shaft of the ALPS RK27. It's more than sufficient with a set screw, as long as it is adequately tightened. In my experience, the full diameter soft metal Alps shaft is much more stable than a D shaft, especially a D shaft with set screw. It's a real job to ever get a knob misaligned on an Alps shaft because the set screw "drills" into the soft metal.

    I'll just leave it at that …
     
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  8. Forza AudioWorks

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    Aye, this might be the case.
     
  9. ButtUglyJeff

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    This is where having a HF staffer among us would be beneficial. We used to be able to ask Currawong stuff like IP addresses between different "members" of the community.

    edit - I get that many here would deem that "not worth the grief", just to get to the bottom of this odd little mystery...
     
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    I don't think he is Nwavguy.

    Amir has been always a troublemaker, for extremely long time.

    I am so utterly surprised you guys do now know about him. Anyone who is active in AVS forum and Whatsthebest forum should acknowledge him; he has been like that, for very, very, very, very long time....

    ...Looooonnnng before Nwavguy ever showed up. There is no incentive for Amir to use different name.... I mean he really does not care, if his actions at those both forums (and many others) have any indications.


    Plus : Oh yes, he was perma-banned from Whatsthebest forum, despite the fact that he was one of ppl who created that forum. That really should tell you guys what kind of a person he is.
     
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    It is also very unfortunate. I mean he is (or was) not stupid as everyone here would think. After all, he was the one who worked with Microsoft to create Windows Media Audio formats in 2000s. He is definitely not some random dude who has no background.

    But then, he pretty much went downhill as time passed.
     
  12. GoodEnoughGear

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    Propose moving this thread to How to win friends and influence people, it has no real worth.
     
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    Amir is partially responsible for the existence of .wma files? Say no more.
     
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    I would not say he is 'responsible' for the format, since there were a lot of people working on the format in the first place. It is not like a single person can do all the jobs.
     
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    Fair enough. Edited to "partially responsible". The point is, he most likely had at least one opportunity to come to his senses and destroy all traces of the project.
     
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    Well, that’s kind of a trans generation neurosis, and it’s very interesting point of view. But have you thought about that maybe Amir it’s Nwavguy male Sexy wife? :rolleyes:
     
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    Just because a person is experienced or an expert in one area of a subject does not mean they are experienced or an expert in all areas of a subject.
     
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    At that level of leadership it's not about technical acumen, it's about driving the teams.
     
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    Yeah, I remember his very voluble commentary about HD-DVD and Blu-ray, back when that was a going controversy (as a VC-1 guy, he was a huge HD-DVD proponent). There'd really be no reason for him to bother using a pseudonym for audio electronic stuff when he was publicly posting inflammatory things about the stuff that he was working on at Microsoft.
     
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    There is evidence both ways, with evidence against being different writing styles and that Amir seems like a lot more twisted and degenerated than nwavguy.

    I still think they are the same person. It's not difficult to write in a different style. I've done it before and fooled others. The more twisted and degenerated aspect of Amir compared to nwavguy can simply be explained as the logical progression of his mind over the years of nwavguy's absence.

    The strongest indicators are the following: NW - northwest; AV - Amir was active on AV boards; same MO, rhetorical techniques; and hate for Schiit.
     

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