Originally Posted by
JohnJo
Personally I found the (now deleted) Jez post very informative and appreciate the time and effort, firstly involved in gaining the knowledge, and secondly typing it up. I didn't realise that balanced equipment may mean single ended internally until the point of connection and then employ transformers or a multi op amp circuit to give a balanced output/input.
With the deepest respect I felt he was misconstrued in this case.
Don't get me wrong Jez, it would be nice if you could appreciate a *little* deeper that 99% of us don't have, and never will have, the technical knowledge you have so can only report our experiences. But I guess if I had your knowledge I'd possibly feel the same and FWIW I think you have been much improved of late in this area.
I also appreciate the difficulty the mods and in particularly Marco has keeping things on an even keel and think they do a great job and feel people *should* be pulled up when required.
But, and it's a big but, this would be a significantly duller, less useful and enjoyable place without guys like Jez taking time to share. I notice Paul from RFC hasn't been seen in a couple of weeks following a similar incident which is a massive pity.
We're all different characters and we're all entitled to the odd bad day
and it's really not my style to stick my nose in but I just wanted to say let's not lose good people by falling out, pleeease.
We NEED guys like Jez here!
Thanks for that John Most appreciated.
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