Wondering why...

I can see that. If I got a tenth of the explosive and unwarranted crap that some get here for saying what they’re hearing, I’d give it up too.

I just hope I wasn’t instrumental when linking some of his thoughts and views on subjective evaluation (which were well reasoned and some, quite humorous) here on some of the more contentious threads as it wasn’t long after that that he announced his departure.

All the best,
Nonoise

That's a real shame. I always enjoyed Michael's work even back when he wrote the column for audiostream.com only to be replaced by Rafe Arnott. He was also a staff writer at 6moons.com.

He's an artist as well and I think he may have been a writer at one time. He skillfully made the argument that one had to hear something before one could pass judgement on it, a style I've always admired, and left it for others to argue. 

I'm going to miss his column.

All the best,
Nonoise