Talk but not walk?

glupson
geoffkait,

Since I posted my last response to you, I noticed that you changed your previous post to include MG's OP. You are right, I took them seriously and I abide by them. He started with "This isn't meant to start the fight" and I have been successfully avoiding any fight here. He also ended his original post with "be polite" which I am also following to all eight letters.

>>>>I was actually referring to his admonition to those who only talk the talk when I said you probably took it personally. 😬

I do not call people crazy, cows, clowns, grasshoppers, stalkers, or anything else that freely flows in this thread. I try to stay within the topic discussed, even if it is not always related to the original post.

>>>>Well, aren’t you special? 

jf47t,

I was not kidding at all. Your description of what you heard was quite impressive. I mean, it seemed that differences were impressive to the point of disbelief when reading about them. As you described it in a way I simply did not have enough imagination to translate it to myself (instruments feeding off of each other, or something like that), I thought I could ask. I really have no clue what that meant although it seems clear that it was something good. The part about karaoke machine was what first came to my mind when I read that just one of the instruments disappeared. I have never heard anything similar so I am curious. I could understand, better to say that I can accept, that some instrument disappeared as I could imagine how it sounds then, but that feeding part I just could not grasp. Presence, I got.

geoffkait,

I am not special at all when it comes to not calling people on the thread cows, crazy, grasshoppers, etc. Most of the posters refrain from that. Even Michael Green and prof, at the height of their argument, abstained from such descriptions despite obvious disagreement and annoyance by each other. They were much more inventive and entertaining even at that lowest point. Or, should I say, highest point of their argument.

As far as talking the talk goes, I have not taken Michael Green's original post personally at all on that level. At least in part due to the fact that I do not consider myself an audiophile and would not argue other person's dedication to something she/he likes to do while I am not that passionate about it. As Michael Green requested, I am not here to start the fight. However, I do read the thread carefully and try to learn from it. It places me in a position of being able to ask questions for which I do not have preconceived answers.

All of that brings me to more questions that I thought of while driving for a couple of hundred of miles earlier today and that are related to this thread. What does it really mean "talk" and what does it really mean "walk" for the purpose of this thread? Thread got broadened and we all got away from that "talk or walk", some being accused of only "talking". Even I did admit a few times quite openly that I am probably a "talker" despite having a SONY Walkman that I use quite often (NW 35 A, or something like that, lime color). However, what is it all about? I understand that those who construct their own amplifiers are probably walkers. That is easy. What about those who buy finished products from someone who worked to invent/make them? Are those just "talkers" or they are also "walkers"? Most of the people do not have time to sandpaper their speaker enclosures or stretch wires to make cables. Not even to cut cubes out of whatever the preferred wood might be. Are they just talkers? They do nothing but give a credit card out. They obviously "walk" in some other field to be able to do it, but they do not do much in some audiophile world. I am honestly asking that. Of course, who and how gets to decide who is the walker and who is the talker? My friends would tell you that I am an audio walker while my whole system is not worth a pair of cables many people discuss on Audiogon and most of the time I listen to an old iPod Touch via $50 iHome Bluetooth speaker. So, what is "talking" and what is "walking"? Could you provide examples? I am curious.

You sure can talk. I’m still thinking about the question. 🙄

geoffkait,

Thank you for considering. Take your time.