About users with hidden agendas

@ghasley +1000

@mapman : I can assure you the vast majority of those people have zero intentions to buy or sell anything here. the "potential" part is close to zero. They are here for the mayhem in the forums only. 

^^^^^

Meant to say don't read or especially reply to fuel their venom.

Yup! Toxic!

I do have a thing though for fueling their venom 😂🤗

Yup! The #2. A couple more….

@td_dayton :

just inked my first deal with some serious players in the industry...audio precisión analyzers...

Why did you do that? Are you a manufacturer of audio gear?

Also 

i will be subjecting all sorts of high quality equipment that i can't afford

But you can afford Audio Precision top gear?? 

I don't understand

@td_dayton : Gotcha! I most definitely fell for it. Believe or not, this is not the first time I have heard this. Actually I know several people who do just that: super expensive AP equipment and sorry ass audio gear to actually listen 

You are not wrong. For sure.

About “YOUR ROOM”…. Let’s walk this through: any person serious about good audio will take care of the “room”. Assuming good size & dimensions, and audio specific (not a general living room area where WAF comes in play, and rightly so), it’s relatively very cheap to treat the room with speaker positioning, as well as acoustic panels, like I did with GIK, absorbers and diffusers everywhere including ceiling, bass traps, etc. etc. Yes, it takes some time and effort to make it right, as well as some knowledge and understanding, using microphone and tools (I used REW and UMIK-1 which I still have), and some professional help if necessary (I did hire someone mostly for aesthetics and accuracy for the ceiling stuff). But it’s fun, and we learn a lot while doing it.

Every “gearophile” I personally know, has taken care of the “room”. It’s not that hard, relatively cheap, and people who can spend $3,000 on a power cord can easily afford to “treat the room”, and let’s face it, these are the same people who can actually afford to have a dedicated sizable audio room / house, not those who can barely afford to own an amp. Am I wrong?

So let’s say “YOUR ROOM” is taken care of. Now what? It ends there? You can put any kind of speakers on that PERFECT room? Amps? If the room is perfect, say you inherited daddy’s big house, then what? What percentage of your total audio endeavors are done?

Or from another angle, for most of us mortals, let’s say we can only have a system in a general purpose living room or family room, or bedroom, with a wife and kids in the house, no dedicated perfectly sized spare room, then what? Abort the pursuit because the room cannot possibly be perfect?

Oh… more often than not, from my experience, it’s the same people who cry wolf and shout loudly ROOM!!! and gear does not matter, who have crappie general purpose “rooms” with a small minority having some panels here and there thrown in haphazardly where wife allows with no rhyme or reason. Not always so, but the majority of these folks. Just ask them to show you their “room”.

Am I wrong?

Continues from my above post as I can no longer edit…

What about a headphones setup where the “room” factor is eliminated? Does it matter at all what cans you own and prefer? Headphones amp, DAC, cabling? Do they matter?

@ted_denney : did you ever read some of the material on the link you posted? You and @mahgister have a lot more in common than you might think. Take a read. Yes, the implementation is different, but the concepts and functionality may overlap with what your company designs and sell.

And not an ideological right/left game either for me...

Oh yeah? Please….

^^^^^^

And the kids need to take their medicine.

Someone did not get the memo

Don’t look up! Don’t look up! Don’t look up! Don’t look up! Don’t look up! 

Forcing one's drastic / extreme political views publicly is not a good business decision. It's silly. Automatically, half of the prospective buyers (the other side of a political spectrum) will never buy any of your products. Unless of course, you figured out that you will be OK with the other half as prospects, and possibly, even help with sales as you look at it as a "sales pitch" for that other half, who probably would just buy your product in sympathy with your political agenda. I don't own a business, but my guess is it's possible.

@nonoise : members’ own posts can be deleted at any time. From members who posted them themselves. There is no time limit for deletion, the time limit is only for editing.

@jjss49 :

some a-holes here seem to only relish being mean-spirited, talking down and talking sh*t about others like it is sport... guess for them it is a change of pace from kicking the dog and beating the wife

Spot on, you nailed it! It’s those 3-4 names wrecking havoc in all threads. Not just this one.

As for @ted_denney , and the hidden agendas, every post of him I have seen in Audiogon has the signature will full name (real persona) and the title / company. Show me one that doesn’t. So what’s the deal and bi***ing with the “hidden agenda “? And by the way Ted, thanks for keeping politics out of your Audiogon posts. You have not even once gone that route

@oldhvymec 

Your all a bunch of Girly men. Hemorrhoids! Preparation H super strength

Yup! That’s pretty much it. You nailed it.

I don’t care who Ted is, but I like that he stands up to the bullies. All bullies. Senile bullies, teenage bullies, passive aggressive bullies, Gene bullies. All of the bullies.