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Blindjim, you have accused me of a few things, and with no justification.
Me>> Accused? Do tell.
Please do tell me exactly what I have acused you of and where I made such an accusation in my posts here? Youll have my most profound and sincere apology for it/them. Truly. Ive looked over it/them a few times and only see where I asked a question, and indicated a feeling you might be biased towards Macs as my worst comment
. So? Im biased towards tubes. Life moves on. No harm no foul. Sheesh..
Nothing else did I see which could possibly have been intended or considered to be untoward.
You>> What is it you have to hide?
Me>> Chief, Im an open book. Ask anything of me and youll get the truth as I know it to be.
On my personal page I list where I live. That Im a private member
not a dealer. Did you?
Nope. You didnt.
I list my system and keep it updated. I get involved. I learn, listen, and share what experiences I have had, and have done this for some time now. I participate regularly to those ends.
When one reads between the lines they then, become the author. As you have done here.
If there is indeed a rant herein, it is your own
and quite an invalid and persistent one. In fact you make me out as accusatory, and then escalate your errant perspective of my commentary to be a personal attack!
You do understand the meaning of the words you choose dont you? Thats kind of important.
Take a few deep breaths Anti
and only put those words back into my mouth which Ive spit out
. Not your ill conceived inferences of my statements. Just copy and paste them below if you wish. That way its undeniable.
Need another ex of how you try to bend my words?
You>> This is a forum Blindjim - a place where people state their opinions without the need to state their scientific evidence, or have to repeatedly say IMO ad nauseum. Your attack of me for stating my opinion says a lot about you buddy.
Me>> My attack. Of you. Thats rich. The English language obviously poses some challenges for you, huh buddy?. You might want to get used to that IMO too
its very prevalent around here, among other web shorthand phrases.. SOTA, FWIW, RMV, RWV, lol, etc.
You>> Your accusations of bias and some percuniary motive show you up for what you are. No I don't sell Macs. Do you accuse everyone that has an opinion that is different to yours of being a vendor of what they like?.
Me>> OK. At the risk of further slander and as my curiosity now has the better of me, just what am I, given it sure seems as you do know?
Asking a question is not an accusation.
Good we know, or better still I know you are not a dealer of anything other than cables. Super.
In this thread Ive noticed your stance for computer based audio has an emphatic nod towards use of Apple computers with a noticeable disdain for pcs used to the same ends. To wit your orig intimation that only a Mac is designed/able/configured, in fact you chose the word optimized for music streams. I believe you said optimized. I wasnt sure as it was misspelled but it fit spelled right or not. Thats no biggie really
I got the drift of it..
**Ive included further proof of this noticed condescension using your own words below. Eg., copying and pasting.
You>>
so I feel I should be allowed to post my opinions without personal attacks.
Me>> You so like that word, attack. Grow some thicker skin or take the measures necessary to diminish your paranoia. Ive not yet attacked you. And probably wont. Its not my bag dude.
If anything Ive found forum posts quite resemble emails
neither venue conveys tone, or intent nearly as well as spoken communications. But there we are
entirely open to being misread and therefore misunderstood. One can also fall prey to another whose ego seems to have been injured, be it truly the case or not.
you >> Lets just take one last point from your rant. You state you disagree with me that we should attempt to create a sound system in its own right.
Me>> Disagree? Yep. Ya got me there. Its OK to do that right? Disagree, I mean. I disagree that ONLY one road leads to Rome. Simple, huh?
You>> I believe that deciding an USB device should perform well on anyone's PC is counter to just about anything else audiophiles seem to agree on, therefore I use a Mac for music (only) and PCs for everything else.
Me>> Well, there it is
USB SUCKS ON just about anyones PC. Where exactly did you come to divine this golden nugget from? I suppose there has been some published concensus which says that somewhere. You should forward this info to Gordon Rankin, John Stroncher, and all those other designers which are pretty well vested into audio via USB, ASAP
Whenever someone contends that one particular methodology is best they profess their own prejudices and intolerance for some other.
In this hobby/forum the word best is both chocolate and vanilla, for it is in the ear of the beholder what truly is best. If those ears aren't full of ice cream, they'll know!
You>>. Your position is that that is unreasonable. Do you, Blidjim, insist that your speakers should be good plant stands too, use your DVD player as a CD transport because they jolly well should be able to do both jobs, insist on a teflon coating on your amps so that the fried eggs don't stick? So why insist that computer audio should be dumbed down to run on your workhorse, general purpose PC?
Me>> bingo! We have a winner in the condescending predisposition of computer based audio hierarchy AS YOU SAID, AND ILL QUOTE
Computer audio should be dumbed down to run on your workhorse, general purpose PC?
Me>> Nope. And if that aint attitude I dont know what is. How's it feel to have just slighted any number of pc USB audio users and designers all in one fell swoop?
Now that you mention it I do have two open ports on my main speaker, but they are in the rear of them, so Ill nix the notion of placing plants in them
but thanks. Id never have thought of that before. Good Idea
well for front ported speakers maybe.
Eggs on amps? I do applaud the novelty but I see only poached as being viable and Im not keen on Eggs Benedict anymore.
Ive also almost completely stopped using the cup holder on my disc player for beverages. Well, almost. Now and then I'll use it as a TV dinner tray for like a Hot Pocket or something. Do remember, I use a pc for music and it has no cup holder, anymore.
Ive no idea what has gotten your goat so profoundly here
. However Ill not stand for anyone who twists words or pulls them out of thin air to make something poor out of something that is not
. As you obviously have attempted to do here
. To me. You are simply dead wrong completely. Infatically off the beam, as it were.
Im no pc advocate and have no true allegiance to them at all. Ive said as much in this very thread. Were circumstances different, Id likely have a Mac in addition to the few pcs I already have. Ive spent some length of time and energy to devise what I feel is my own personal SOTA hard drive based audio solution and its far more than merely pluggin and playing different devices into them.
Ive arrived at my solution as compared to other one box CDP s previously and now available as it is to me to do. Theres more to it than plug and play. Period. If one takes the time to shut down services Bill Gates thinks are needed which arent actually, not for audio playback anyhow. So streamlining the OS is important and Ive done that completely with my main audio source pc
My workhorse pc doesnt receive those levels of attention. Nor is it needed or necessary.
Memory, front bus speeds, CPUs, drivers, etc. and which media player works best with all that... it's all important. It's all been addressed in my dumb ol' PC.
My take on anything is that it should be made available for everyone at least on some level and at some point. That was my main reason for posting here
to ask when for pcs, in this Mac oriented thread. Mainly because no one else had asked yet.
Anti your veiled apology is not accepted. The only injury youve endured herein is by your own hand. By misconstruing the Audiogon membership and me personally, that anyone would think of promoting an attack on another posters comments. No one does that sort of thing here and sticks around too long.
Youve not been a member long enough to see this as a reality yet. In fact you dont even post what country you consider home. You dont post your system, any reviews, etc. youre as anonymous as they come. Youve only served up input on a few instances.
Additionally as a self proclaimed cable dealer you failed to list even that info on your page here.
Why? What do you have to hide? No declaration of country, none of being in truth a proclaimed dealer. Well compared to me you have apparently something to hide, so you must feel everyone else does too.
I wish no one here any harm, injustice, or libel of any kind. Ever. I feel you should seriously rethink all of this and try to be less paranoid
So keep your shirt on, buddy. This is a pretty safe place and the people here are informed, informative, and friendly most all of the time. Get a grip. Dig some tunes and try to not read to much into what is posted as being personally invasive, it seldom is. It wasnt here. Thats for sure
well, not on my behalf anyhow.
I apologize to the other posters here for having to take up your thread to vindicate myself from innocuous unfounded, and arbitrary comments made to me by another poster. Sorry.
Good luck Anti Pod
