The best and worst Audiogon poster's

I would like to thank, in no particular order, Carl, Craig, and Trelja, for helpful comments in past threads. Carl, I recently taped Galactic (good jazz/funk band from NO,LA, they're on Capricorn records, FYI) at the House Of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC. Schoeps tubed mics! (not mine) They sounded great. Had a blast. Perhaps we should look into a trade, I bet I've got something you'd like. Joe

I'll listen to anyone who has the knowledge to back up what they say. I'm not impressed with someone who gets defensive over a piece of equipment that they have only read about in Stereophile. With that said, not all "great" equipment is going to sound "great" in everyone's system because of the components that other person may be using. I think it does everyone a service to know the CONTEXT behind the opinion. Most AG posters are very good at doing this: Albert Porter, Tubegroover, Carl, Garfish (and a whole bunch of others). On the bad side are the ones who leave posts like "This piece will blow that away..." or "That sucks!" - with no elaboration!

Thank you for the kind words, Gthirteen. I don't have any one favorite, but a list of people who regularly contribute insightful(not inciteful comments). You would be included on the list. Others(off the top of my head - in NO order): Tubegroover, AlbertPorter, Carl_eber, Tm12, Garfish, David99, Brianmcgargon, Sedond, Sdcampbell, Avguygeorge, etc. Apologies to the long list my feeble memory cannot recall at this moment.

Is this the Jerry Springer show on "I hate you cuz your an audiophile pimp"? Gooooooood Loooooooooooord! Go Audiogon, Go Audiogon, Go Audiogon, Go Audiogon, wowowo! ugh, Lets try to keep it to music, and can't we all just Get along?

Tm12, as I've said, I was simply attacking you in the way you attacked me and my postings, to show how rediculous you are being (I could tell that "killing you with kindness" would likely not work). Was it not pleasant for you? You shouldn't have taken it THAT seriously, I've never met you or your family, so why would you think any comments I made about them would have any REAL meaning? (I knew that they wouldn NOT for me, afterall.) Stop your seathing already. You need to calm down, before you have a heart attack (really). And stop thinking that you are the only one holding the "undeniable truth of music" all the time, I can't stand that. Based on my experience with them, you're dead wrong about MIT, and you have zero right "on this earth" to be upset about the many fine people who enjoy their cables. Absolutely zero right! Who in hell are you to tell me that they're no good at all, when I, and many others, know the opposite is very true. If you've had bad experience with them, that does NOT give you the right to proclaim them a horrible company, and to "feel sorry for the fools that buy them", as you've vomitted forth. I too have tried the same interconnect that you didn't like, and I didn't like that one particulary either. But the model one up from it is very nice indeed, along with several down from it. I didn't just hear that one only, and decide that the "company sucks", like you've done.....................When you apologize about MIT, I'll apologize to you. All you've done here lately is snipe about products you personally don't like, and this only ruins any meaningful discourse that can be had on those subjects. It is you who should take a break from this forum for a while, not me...It certainly is not positive for the forum for us to continue in this way (duh), so this is my ONLY reply to you. I think you'd be better off if you didn't take such a personal interest in badmouthing a particular product line. I tried that once a few months ago (also a cable product), it had no effect, so I moved on to sharing about what I've had positive experiences with (mostly), and that has had a net positive effect..................Things can get ugly with me on here sometimes, and like I said, I do take partial responsibility for them. It takes two hotheads to really "go off", though, and there has been zero contrition on your part...rather, quite the opposite. You should take a pill, or something, and try to be happy at least while you are listening........Carl