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Audiogon/Asylum and magazine reviewers posts

For whatever reason(s), I have always prefered Audiogon over the Asylum; a few weeks ago there was this post on the Asylum, "Is Stereophile Abstaining From AA ?". Many on here may already know that several reviewers do participate on AudioAsylum. I posted this question to that post, "My question is, why don't they frequent Audiogon as well? Any response JA?" I received the following reply from the reviewer Kal Rubison, "I monitor Audiogon but there's rarely anything worth commenting on."

This post isn't anything against Kal, I was just curious if others that frequent both sites find that AA has more meaningful posts?
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kr4ef94
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I did not say that I liked to spend my time 'shooting from the hip.' I ascribed that to the general style on AA which, I must admit, is often entertaining.
kr4ef94
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Thanks for the encouragement. I am not intentionally standing back from Audiogon and it should be apparent that I, and other writers, do monitor it. OTOH, there are only so many hours in the day and I do respond to any and all posts which evoke sufficient motivation for me to do so. (Yours is one.)

BTW, one reason that writers (and others) try to be a bit circumspect about their postings was nicely demonstrated in last night's re-run of West Wing wherein a staffer responded to a Web group and reaped much more than he expected.
kr4ef94
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One reason I rarely comment here is that there rarely is a need since you guys seem to be able to take care of yourselves just fine. It has nothing to do with any past accusation of boorishness since, frankly, I do not recall it.

I simply find it more fun to comment on AA where there is more 'shooting from the hip.'
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