Muralman, don't say nasty personalized things to people that you are afraid to be heard. If you talk with different degrees of nicety depending upon your audience vs. anonymity, well, we're back to that self-reflection thing again. I told you, given my accepting of your "Peace" gesture, that your continued nastiness in private was "tactless" and told you, on that basis, that I wouldn't talk to you privately any longer. Yes, I can see why you wouldn't want to talk about it. Now, insinuating drunkeness, that's petty - and I would say, once more a symptom of what I've been saying about your credibility and inability to put your views forward authentically, shifting contexts when it suits or when you don't want to respond in a forthright manner. My, what a memory.
On your system, once again you are putting words in my mouth, even though I've told you before differently and you know so. Specifically, I have told you before that I respect the Pass stuff, and your own amp too. I've also said that I liked your Jolida, especially with the NOS tubes - a nice 'lil piece (and a very good buy at $900 and a good choice IN THAT CONTEXT). But again, my citing of your system and its limitations - which you still have not conceded or sufficiently addressed beyond a quote from your neighbor, and now saying that any speaker not ribbon-based is inherently inferior and implying that all tube gear by its nature can not get you close to the source - is the point, and especially given the context of your absolutist statements concerning wire like the Dominus (even though now you seem, in between statements of converting others, to be backing away from).
This was never a thread seeking to warn "budding" audiophiles away from the evils of over-priced wire, nor did it ever exclude consideration of wire such as the Dominus; in fact, discussing Dominus and Dominus-like wire was its main thrust. It was an in-depth discussion of many issues, many of which you engaged in. To now claim, after your assumptions and empiric methodologies have been questioned, that it was always something else is, again, a manifestation of your inauthenticity.
Yes, I can loose my patience, but most always with people who act like you do, publicly or privately. Its a disappointment given your intellect and intelligence.
Now, shoo shoo, fly away.
