Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation?

waytoomuchstuff OP

74 posts

05-04-2022 at 08:19am 

A little on subject/off subject remark:

When I was 17, I blew a woofer in my brother's Sansui speakers playing The Big Sound of the Drags LP.  I took them to the local audio saloon for repair and was told: "Sansui speakers aren'tt worth the postage to send them here from Japan!!"  That was my first experience with an audio specialty store

I have that record, complete with a bunch of autographs (Garlits, Eddie Hill etc.)!

acman3

3,675 posts

05-04-2022 at 10:02pm 

Dave, skimed back through and don’t see any racist comments. Just silly people having fun. Can you show me what you see? Maybe one of the deleted post.

Some people just live to be faux-enraged.

One that I heard was Junky But Loud (JBL). My JBL compression drivers have been performing admirably for years now, but I do recall when I first bought them they were plagued with metal shavings stuck in the gap, causing some bad response. I took them to an authorized service center who declared them to be functioning perfectly. I asked them how they determined that and they said by listening to them. I had already measured and knew the response was way out of spec. I guess for those who can't hear it or don't care they were just fine! 

Besides the equipment specific quips, I think that some of that attitude is alive and well today on this board but thats okay by me. Those Harry Pearsonesque type put downs, as long as they’re witty and not too mean or directed. The last one that was directed at me I thought was a hoot. The discussion was about updates to a turntable that I was quite familiar with and the person asked about possibly earlier factory updates and I made a suggestion. Then this other person chimed in and didn’t so much suggest as he said I’m wrong and he’s right. I told him that some long-standing dealers of the said table thought the same as well as friends of mine who thought the same. Well, Mr. Knowitall suggested or alluded to the fact that he has a better group of friends ( I think he might have gotten snooty injecting a preferred single malt scotch or some sh*te like that into the discussion) than mine and he may very well have. Something else about cleaning or re-educating my ears, hearing, something like that. I could have been offended but instead found him quite amusing. I'm laughing thinking about it as I write.

I never knew any funny comments about the Dalqhuist DQ - 10's so I'll make one up - the speakers w/ the Don't Quit crossovers - so complex w/ many mediocre parts & drivers. I know they were amongst the first speakers to address the concepts of time & phase alignment & sounded good in some ways but I didn't find the high or low ends convincing, especially when pushed loud.