TM12, or Noel, you know how I feel about you. David, I thank you very much for your kind sentiments, and I agree with you, and also feel the same about you. I thank Audiogon for deleting that little exchange, I was trying to show this guy how silly he's being. I'm sure we can discuss audio only, rather than just saying "this is the worst waste of money ever, only a retarded moron would buy it," blah blah. I never make such extreme comments about audio, because frankly, they don't ever apply, epsecially if it really is "about the music". It is for me, absolutes don't apply to the things humans create, in the way a few posters have wrongly stated here on occasion. When I've tried something I don't like, I always say that I think it would be possible that it would work in some system context (and sometimes try to guess at what that context might be)...And no, I haven't bought most of my cabling "new"...it's mostly been used, and I too have tried a whole bunch of different cabling, much more than I have electronics.....Brulee, thanks for your "sometimes" kind words, heh heh. |
And also, I'm not sure this is a good thread, I just feel popularity contests don't do us any good. We should all feel free to exchange our thoughts and experiences here, perhaps with audio as the central theme. Personally, I like several members on here very much. Like most of us, I'm just wanting to learn more about what interests me personally. On occasion, I have been able to share something that has helped someone else. All too often, though, I seem to have brought out the "total utter jerkwad" in most everbody! Make no mistake, I DO blame them more than me, but still want to take some of the responsibility, and to occasionally apologize. The subject that has angered me most is that of women and audio. I continue to resent being thought of as a bigot those individuals who are full of excessive hubris, just because I feel that the two genders (by and large, with noteworthy excpetions) approach music (and especially audio) in vastly different ways. This is why there are many more men in this hobby, than women. It has almost nothing to do with "upbringing", IMO. (To me, this is akin to a woman thinking another woman a bigot, becuase she states that "MOST men do not have an interest in 'high fashion', read Cosmo, or watch Oprah...and like to watch sports all the time". She's stating verifiable fact, not "being a bigot".) My own idea in this area is something that ALL BUT ONE OR TWO OF US KNOW FROM OUR OWN EXPERIENCE, and also from sharing and confirming that experience with other "audio people" over time. Now, if some guy says "My wife and I have young single women over to the house all the time, who are hard core audiophiles every bit as much as we are", I find that essentially IMPOSSIBLE to believe, and ALSO RESENT IT, since I'm single, and would enjoy an experience like that! Believe me, if I meet a single woman who is an audiophile, I would be delighted, but would also "be evolved enough" to allow myself to feel the surprise that would accompany it. Anyway, AG is free to delete this rant, as necessary... |
And TM12, I would say that anyone who can't even spell "misery" (yes, I even make typos myself...often, but can spell decent anyway...and that sentence wasn't long enough to incur a typo, IMO), is perhaps in misery themselves. I've asked this of others on occasion, and mean no offense, but considering your angry traits...Are you currently incarcirated? If so, I hope you are able to adjust to being "normal" again, before your sentence is completed...good luck with that. |
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 |
Gthirteen, I don't have a mic pre with phantom power yet, so I can't use any of the good mics (dang it!). I'm not a big shot like you, I only do portable battery powered stuff, with unbalanced connections. I use an AT822, so have a good chuckle on me, heh heh. When Tascam, or whoever, makes a portable DAT that can record 20 bits at 48kHz or higher in that format, that's when I'll buy one (since theirs does have phantom power). Or perhaps, they'll just make a video 8 format portable, that does one of the new digital standards...I dunno, be a while at this rate, though. |
OK, so THIS is my last reply to Tm12. There is no such thing as "pure science", and you would certainly NOT be an arbiter of it, if it existed. MIT's products represent the best value in audio cables today (mostly for solid state, but not solely), and the vast majority of us know this already. I suspect that your judgement is blinded by an awe of my obvious righteousness on this particular subject, you don't know how to express it correctly, and so you just continue to spout nonsense.....good day to you, anyhow. |
Tm12, I need to stop responding to you now, but I can't. You must have Kryptonite.....BOTH my uncle (mother's brother) AND first cousin (his oldest son), got DOCTORATE engineering degrees from MIT (yes, that one in Massachusettes...professor Bose is held in high regard around those parts, BTW...I've seen the laboratory, you should visit, heh heh.)........................My uncle thinks "digital is digital, it's all the same". He heard my system playing only an FM radio source, and was AGASP. My cousin is now adjunct faculty at Massachusettes Institute of Technology, besides having several of his own firms in the hi-tech field. He was surprised a couple of years ago, when I informed him that quality audio electronics were made in places other than Japan, and were different than its mass market stuff (Yes, I doubt either had ever paid the nearby Goodwins' Highend a visit...I didn't either, didn't have time, or my own car on my last visit to yankee-land...maybe next year)...................Tm12, if you'd shut your pie hole the hell up sometime, YOU might learn something...but I seriously doubt it, dude!.......................Do I think it was cheesy of Music Interface Technologies to chose that same acronym for their brand name? Hell yes I do, but that doesn't diminish the quality of their products in the least!!!! Cables (and everything) sell for whatever the market will pay; I guess you must not have gotten past junior high school, not to have known this simple fact. Supply needs to meet demand, and if someone can afford to pay for an expensive cable, and finds its sonic advantage over others in his system, I DON'T BEGRUDGE HIM A FREAKING BIT!!! The fact that you do proves how insolent and retarded you are! I am not a rich man (likely not as rich as EVEN YOU, my resources are quite humble). That's why I buy my cables (and everything) mostly USED. At the used price, in the right system, MIT's top of the line cables (I have that interconnect) can NOT be beat by anything...In my all encompassing, omnitient, everlasting, and righteous opinion...................Do you know how to listen? I do, but I doubt you do. DB tests are for consumer reports wussie tree huggers, every audiophile knows that. (I repeat, are you Noel Anderson?) Those test results are always skewed by tension variables (Michael Fremer a decade ago was the excpetion...that's why everybody resented him for so long). And yes, I can hear better than you, and all your buddies too...So if you want to talk DB tests, post on a page where all audio components are thought to sound the same. In other words, "you be going away now, you no coming back here no mo'"...good day, sir, and take up fishing or gardening... |
Plsl, no, that comment of mine wasn't directed at you at all. I'm sorry if you construed it that way, it was directed at someone else who uttered a phrase nearly identical to my paraphrase. That was NOT you, it was someone different; he knows who he is, and I'm sure he'll attack me again on it at some future time...and he'll again NOT prove his point to me in the least................I'm glad you and your wife love music, and listening to it at home (I really am), but that in no way disproves what essentially ALL of us know from experience (that it's hard to find a woman who will tolerate us in this hobby). You, and others like you, are the exception, and griping about it proves nothing. It's just bragging on your part, and if that's what you need to do here (most of us do at some time), then go right ahead and tell old Carl just how wrong he is...you are one of many, and few succeed. As a wise man has said of me, "You're not afraid to be brutally honest in your commentary"......................It's time to stop being politically correct, the 1990's are history, thank goodness!! Everybody doesn't do "everything" in exactly the same way, to the same degree. They have every right to do so, a few rise above the ordinary, but most don't. As audiophiles, we are perhaps 1% of the population. Female audiophiles, and especially single ones, can surely only be 10% of our number (and that's being generous). Show me a sworn affidavit that provides evidence to the contrary (that even 20% of audiophiles worldwide are single females), and I'll admit I'm wrong on this freely. DO I WISH ALL WOMEN WERE AUDIOPHILES? Yes, indeed! Do I wish they hung around me? Do you have to ask? (Or rather, would you kick a bachelor when he's down, heh heh? That's always easier than helping, isn't it?) |
Plsl: Perhaps that is true, and someday I'd like to work out there. |
I am from a southern state, and, although I dream of working in CA sometime, I don't think the south is so bad at all. I've visited the northeast several times, and feel it is WAY overrated! Homes that cost around $700,000 in my area now, cost about $8 million in the northeast. The cost of living is too high in the northeast, and so is the population density. Also, unless you like urban sprawl, there's essentially nothing in the way of scenery. At least in CA, there's plenty of room to stretch out. Also, the average New Englander is about as conceited as the average Parisian, or for that matter British royalty, IMO. At least in the south, we have the common courtesy to smile while we are insulting your sorry keester...there is zero common courtesy or manners in New England WHATSOEVER. To say otherwise is to lie. I think they're so incorrigable because they hate their lives, and don't realize it. If I had to buy a new car every year, because the constant road salt ate it in half...not to mention freezing like I was in Antarctica for 8 months out of the year...I'd hate my life too! I hear heating oil has skyrocketed this year...I wouldn't want to be any of you up that way, not in a million years! Visiting is one thing, staying is madness... |
And yet that's just what will happen in a thread like this, isn't it? You can keep deleting my calls to ban Tm12, and I'll keep posting them. Ban Tm12. |
Albert has heard my take on the FIM Gold power cord, the so-called "best in the world". We have similar tastes in powercords, and have heard nearly the same things from one of the Shunyata cords, for example. He knows what he likes in cabling, and I am starting to know. |
Audiogon, please ban TMl2. We all know I would be banned if I said what he says above. What's the matter, the rules don't apply to everyone? |
John, you are giving weight to one post, and not the other. I wonder why that is? I don't succomb to negativity; rather it gravitates to me, and I defend myself as anyone with any self esteem would. I fancy myself a pretty good writer, too...at least as good as Onhwy61. If there weren't so much personal and rule-breaking animosity towards me here, perhaps you would see that. In any case, I don't disagree with most of your above sentiments about your favorite members. We all have our favorites, here. Favoritism isn't usually a good thing IMO, but it is always unavoidable. |
John, I do apologize for asking you, and wasting your precious time........................Hmm, I must say that John has definitely discouraged me from further participation here. I'll take it into consideration, anyway. (I hear applause from all over the world about now...all of you have a good chuckle on me, till you puke...)....................................Comparing me to a bottom feeder like Larry Flint...you are too kind, and full of "class", and certainly MATURITY AND HONOR befitting your age and upbringing. Congratulations John, your superior intellect, mind tricks, and general false analogies and false patronization are doing the trick well........................And thinking/wishing? someone had "offed" me in real life too?....hmm, I understood that we were supposed to have love and compassion for our fellow man. I'll pray for you, John. And by the way, since we are flagrantly and nauseatingly patronizing each other here, I'll add you to my "list of favorites" too!! I bet you feel all warm inside..knowing that you're one of my favorites, AND that I'll be praying for you (lol!).......................I AM NOT RUDE. Technically, I never draw first blood. I simply vigorously defend my opinion, and even myself from presonal attacks that break Audiogon's forum rules here, and I will not apologize for doing so.............................If I break the rules, I'm gone. If you guys break them by attacking me, you get a pat on the back (you know from whom). Yes John, indeed no one has hurt me physically, and they aren't able to, besides. John, you are absolutely a "class act"...continue to pat yourself on the back, and be happy, like your good friend Larry Flynt (or perhaps James Carville would be more alalagous to you?). You deserve the full admiration of all my "carl-haters", and also to those who think I'm a "charity case"..........................I came to this forum with the idea of learning about audio, and sharing my experiences. Lately, I only see a bunch of 50 year old men who "can't take what they dish out" (rudeness), at least from an "up and comer"...and so they act like 5 year olds. I am not a member of your old boy network, and I refuse to take up playing golf in order to make myself feel a "part of the club". I know we understand each other...John, you truely exude "class". Happy New Year to you and yours, I know it means a lot coming from one of your "favorites". |
I feel the love from you, and I reciprocate. Also, I fail to see how I'm pathetic...and why you are allowed to personally attack, without your post being deleted. Who are you anyway, do I know you? You don't know me, so pipe down, you embarrass yourself. |
If so, you might want to clean up your own back yard as well!!! |
Eldragon, I commend you for your artwork on your website (can you say "Reubenesque"?), and for your friendship/support here! Thank you very much! I do believe you'll like the 9300 much better, but if your baffle is routered for flush fit, it won't fit in the same place as the Focal (round in a square hole, etc.). There might also be different electrical parameters between the two. Additionally, the 9300 might be about 1 dB less efficient than the Focal (I'm not sure). If so, then you'll just need less series resistance in the tweeter's "pad" network (if not different parallel resistance also). I'm sure they'll have wroked all that out, though. Good luck with this, let me know how it goes! Happy new Year to you, Dragan. These old timers could learn about being a "class act" from you!! |
And Craig, it already is "less interesting and more boring", in my opinion. Happy New Year to you anyhow. John could learn a lot from you! Perhaps he will. |
Ok, as long as you admit that it's ok to marry your CD player, I guess I can burry my hatchet. It's caked with the plasma of audioguys who are almost as hardheaded as me, so it doesn't work well anymore...time to get a better tool for the job anyhow. I think I'll start by seeing how long I can stay out of this forum, and go from there. "Rejoice, rejoice, you have no choice....but to carry on". "go your way, I'll go mine". "Will it bring you happiness, will it bring you sorrow?" "Inna-gaden-of-eden baby..."(Simpsons joke) "Father. Yes son. I want to kill you..." Peyote might be the tool I'm looking for...nahh! |
