1) The world is a very small place. I have learned that I have commonality with people from all parts of the globe. Those brought up in political or social environments very different than mine, yet music is universal.
2) We all have our own tastes and listening preferences, yet non of us are completely right or completely wrong. Find those whose experiences most resembles your own and form a friendship with them.
3) There will always be jerks in the world!
4) Some people just refuse to accept that what they do not understand.
5) Isolation is more important and less understood than we think.
6) "Audiophiles" look for a two dimension cut out and call it detail. Music lovers look for enjoyment and call it music.
7) This hobby is big enough to support both the audiophile and the music lover alike.
8) When given the chance, the Internet can bring people closer together than we ever expected (LUGNUT) and therein we discover humanity.
9) Audiogon offers an education in system set-up that will take your systems performance to places it would not be without Audiogon.
10) Many people who post here want so badly to be right and to have a following that they post opinions on everything. A few people who post here have vast knowledge in academic application, yet are completely blind to the possibility of what they don't know. A very few have knowledge based in experience with many systems, are open minded to the possibility that we have not learned all there is to know and are actually able to provide this knowledge in terms that we can learn from. Seek those people, there are about twenty or thirty of them, ask learn and enjoy. The rest of those who post are here for other reasons, give them exactly the credit they deserve.
Beyond all, enjoy the music, if you love music, enjoy the imaging if that's your thing. No matter what, enjoy the community and the opportunity to enjoy life with people we would not other wise know without Audiogon.
jd
