The Horror

@tvad this happens from time to time. It's not at all new. A lot of my comments have been removed while much harsher comments I replied to were not, I am not into speculating why, I have better things to worry about. 

I did not really understand your post. Your system costs 5 times what I spent on mine. I don't think I will ever have half your budget and I think mine sounds absolutely amazing and riveting. I guess we have very different perspectives.

I understand, I have seen and heard expensive systems and I can imagine owning and enjoying them. (I probably couldn't hear the difference between a 50K and a 150K system but it would look nice in my living room)

I just realized it’s a very addictive hobby and the price to enjoyment relationship is not linear. Unhappiness to obsessing about what I can’t have is exponential - to me. So one day I stopped watching online reviews and gave up on big upgrade plans. It never stopped me from enjoying the music.

@audiodidact here is good part: you can get sound that you love (a lot more) by trying different speakers and amps and preamps and sources in your current budget. Members here will lend you gear and you can order it to try out and then buy it used. Of course you know it, you have been doing this for long.

I have bought a lot of cheap stuff on shopgoodwiill, had generous loaners or gifts from members here, and made amazing improvements on a small budget.

suggesting KEFs is like telling someone to go to Cabo, because... well, you just came back from Baja? Not very profound in my opinion, with the understanding of a 1000 incredible speaker choices 

I am sorry @erik_squires treats you like this. Maybe he has a bad day

And I would avoid the Boenickes for sure. Lot better choices in the W5 price range

@soix You doubt it? Based on what? Do you know me? Are you are above me to decide what I have and have not heard?

Yes I have heard the W5s at Alma Audio, 2 miles from my house.

I have also corresponded with Sven Boenicke and struggled a lot to get data on their speakers.

I made my statement about the value of Boenicke based on 100s of hours research.

@soix this wasn’t your first belittling/condescending comment to me. I have no idea why it is necessary. You could have asked “have you heard the Boenickes?” to the same or in fact, a better effect, without sounding what you often sound like. Feel free to ignore me in the future, thank you.

@soix my comment was removed, yours wasn't. Pretty unfair. I am attacked and I am the one silenced.

If this one will be removed too, you can be sure I will leave the forum, my sense of fairness is strong and having removed ONE SIDE's COMMENT ONLY is an abuse of fairness.

I don't have a thin skin. I just don't like being insulted, bullies and bullying. Your version is a nice try. It's like kicking someone and saying you were joking. You keep insulting me, in every comment now. You can't make any comment apparently without attacking the other person. 

If you really believe your interpretation of the events, your normalizing your behavior, that's pretty scary.

With this moderation, I wouldn't bet on being here tomorrow but whatever, I can live happily ever after and you can speak "FREELY" which in your dictionary means insulting other members.

@soix I did not come out hard against the Boenickes - all I said was that for that much money there are much better value speakers. I supported it with a list.

The way you doubted I knew anything about the Boenickes and if I had heard them was condescending - it wasn’t a "little pushback". It was a loaded statement that I had no idea what I was talking about. That’s not a "little pushback". That’s assumptions you had no right or reason to make.

If you don’t see that - how arrogant your responses are - you have serious problems. You were very rude in your first post and you are even more rude in the last one. Grow a pair? Are you 5? This is not a bar with drunken surfer dudes. I don’t need your lecturing. You are embarrassing yourself with your bullying tactics.

Obviously it's best we stay out of each others way, I will do all I can to avoid you.

@soix this is getting repetitive, you calling me names and presenting your alternative reality (lies for sane people) and me explaining why it’s not productive and very hurtful.

I see no reason to say it again. Ironically you keep digging and proving my point. And your insults are only getting worse. I won’t suggest you to calm down, that would be behaving like you. I am used to being this the norm, the abuser being protected, feeling emboldened and everyone standing by, quietly.

@ghasley I read all his comments in this thread. I have no idea what you are talking about. Not only your description is vague but I cannot find any way to interpret anything he said as mean or snarky. Maybe I am missing something, it was a deleted post?

@tvad  since I was very sad about attacks against me in this thread, when I came back after a nearly 2 days break, I was again sad to read your personal attacks on @mrdecibel. You may not have literally called him names, but you implied he was ignorant and full of sh%t and a liar (he could not have ever heard your components). If someone wrote those about me, I would have felt deeply insulted. I don't know you nor the other party, I have no reason to upset you. Just for the sake of fairness, this seems a bizarro world now, everything is upside down.