Oy. Where do I begin?
Dert, thanks once again for the contribution. I think we've all concluded that your "real" ads are remarkable enough, so I don't expect any ads for toaster-ovens or Dustbusters any time soon. ;->
Elizabeth, this time (!) I agree with you. As I've said several times before, the bifurcate joy/pain of high-performance audio is that EVERYTHING matters. That means that great improvements can be wrought at low cost (especially if you read and utilize Jim Smith's book), but it also means that some of those improvements may well be inexplicable, bordering on the mystical or magical.
I was trained in mechanical engineering, and I've seen/heard tweaks where my initial reaction was, "there's no WAY that can make a difference", and then have clearly heard that it DOES. The next step of course is where we have the tweak equivalent of Miss Cleo : pure fakes. Does that mean that some mysterious tweaks DON'T work? No, not at all. To me, it just means that dogma is not all that useful when it comes to audio.
You will be seeing changes in what you see on Audiogon. I should point out in our defense that there are LOTS of items submitted to us which are never allowed to see the light of day (or a monitor--I suspect that a lot of our members never SEE the light of day).
And, Elizabeth: I probably shouldn't have allowed that word with the asterisk in your penultimate sentence to go up. Our credibility isn't enhanced by letting one member do things like that, and then prohibiting others from it. I'm just sayin'.
C1: thank you. I appreciate appreciation.
Robyatt: thank you, also. Dunno to whom you're referring: I don't have TIME for beatings! ;->
Ferrari: whatcha gonna do? I'm getting old too, but I'm still trying to make a difference. I'm probably more dismayed by ads than amused by them; it's kind of like watching COPS, except there are fewer tattoos and mullets here. Hang in there, and thanks for the comments.
4est 4 the trees: we share your concerns, and we have been talking to a number of our advertisers. We're tryin', dude.
Thanks to you all for reading, and for caring enough to comment.
Dert, thanks once again for the contribution. I think we've all concluded that your "real" ads are remarkable enough, so I don't expect any ads for toaster-ovens or Dustbusters any time soon. ;->
Elizabeth, this time (!) I agree with you. As I've said several times before, the bifurcate joy/pain of high-performance audio is that EVERYTHING matters. That means that great improvements can be wrought at low cost (especially if you read and utilize Jim Smith's book), but it also means that some of those improvements may well be inexplicable, bordering on the mystical or magical.
I was trained in mechanical engineering, and I've seen/heard tweaks where my initial reaction was, "there's no WAY that can make a difference", and then have clearly heard that it DOES. The next step of course is where we have the tweak equivalent of Miss Cleo : pure fakes. Does that mean that some mysterious tweaks DON'T work? No, not at all. To me, it just means that dogma is not all that useful when it comes to audio.
You will be seeing changes in what you see on Audiogon. I should point out in our defense that there are LOTS of items submitted to us which are never allowed to see the light of day (or a monitor--I suspect that a lot of our members never SEE the light of day).
And, Elizabeth: I probably shouldn't have allowed that word with the asterisk in your penultimate sentence to go up. Our credibility isn't enhanced by letting one member do things like that, and then prohibiting others from it. I'm just sayin'.
C1: thank you. I appreciate appreciation.
Robyatt: thank you, also. Dunno to whom you're referring: I don't have TIME for beatings! ;->
Ferrari: whatcha gonna do? I'm getting old too, but I'm still trying to make a difference. I'm probably more dismayed by ads than amused by them; it's kind of like watching COPS, except there are fewer tattoos and mullets here. Hang in there, and thanks for the comments.
4est 4 the trees: we share your concerns, and we have been talking to a number of our advertisers. We're tryin', dude.
Thanks to you all for reading, and for caring enough to comment.