Lay Off the Newbies!


I always try to keep my posts constructive, but there is something that regularly goes on here that I think is detrimental to our hobby - A newbie has a simple question and a bunch of neurotic geezers (of which I include myself) jump on the guy with a million rules and rituals he must follow to achieve his goal, which ends up discouraging the guy right out of hobby. There was one analog thread on static where I recommended Gruv Glide and you geezers started in with so much BS- humidifiers, move to another climate, expensive gimmicks, etc, that GG would kill him and his records.  The end result? By the end of the thread, he sold his analog rig because he couldn't deal with the stress.  In a recent digital thread, you guys are recommending a newbie buy 20 year old transports.  All this does is just make newbies so stressed out that you'll drive them to MP3s.  Newbies need simple answers, commensurate with their experience level.  Buy a Rega table, screw in a Rega cartridge and play records.  They have plenty of time to turn into us.  Somehow we survived, listening to our Sansui receivers and JBL L-100s in bedrooms thick with pot smoke and spilled Boone's Farm.  And we made it.  Sometimes I'm amazed as well.  Let the young have fun while they can. Be well.  
chayro
All I can picture is a naked man. Leaking from below.

Because that’s all old heavy mechs are capable of, "leaking from every orifice of their bodies" especially their mouth.
Cheers George
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tvad wrote:

" The best recommendation I can offer to newbies is to search the threads. Yes, it takes a little more work than creating a new thread and allowing responses to collect. However, the effort will be rewarded by returning an unmatched richness of content and discovery."

+1

+100 

the search bar is your friend

:)
Jonny!
I was a very young mechanic for Henry and Ian at Lolita Automobile Developments for 3 years before getting heavily side tracked into audio electronics and started building huge self contained water cooled Class-A solid state amps that even NP (god) acknowledged.
And there’s no problem with what I perceive.

Cheers George
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