A controversial article!

[Audio Advent]

By the way if you need Ladybird books, I have the ones I read here, The Ladybird book getting a BSc, Let's get our MA and The Ladybird book of Doctorates. On the other hand, the last one required some original thought, way beyond your closed in mindset Sonny Jim

[Audio Advent]

I have already explained that the purpose of an amplifier is to make small thing big, that’s it.

Ego... penis... I agree! The bigger, beefier and more expensive the amp, the bigger those things get hurrah!




.... to spoil the joke by being technical, that's not technically necessarily true. Depending on the efficiency of speakers, the amp can just be an impedance interface.

[awkwardbydesign]

Now then gentleman.... I started this thread as a wind up knowing it would provoke some erm... lively debate.... lets not have it provoking any more than that.

Spoilsport.

[Oldpinkman]

I have not been following this thread for a while - circular arguments...

However, I noticed Bob's post. If that indicates Bob is no longer posting on the forum, I personally feel that's a great shame and will miss him. I realise his comments about the SL1200 were both provocative and ignorant - but he has contributed some good stuff, and seemed a likeable knowledgeable chap.

What is it about HiFi forums that brings out so much nastiness? And so much dogma?

To those who are certain that HiFi design has to be "tuned by ear" - the fact is that THX managed to design the AHB2 I am about to buy without either of its collaborative designers listening to it (working in Suffolk and Canada). They just got it to measure right. Clearly it would have been better still if some enthusiast had popped round and given his opinion of how it sounded, and tweaked a few components, and THX missed a trick on behalf of their client Benchmark. But it seems to have been well received in spite of that, and both organisations appear to be struggling on and eeking out an existence.

[struth]

Only person responsible for his departure is himself and you ought to know better.

[Marco]

Driven out, Richard? I hardly think so! Bob, was simply here to ram his staunchly objectivist views down the throats of those he thought he could wind up, and when he was given a taste of his own medicine, couldn't hack it.

Clearly, he just didn't fit in. Also, Richard, please do not post personal remarks about other members, as it doesn't help. All it does is inflames matters further. I won't bother replying properly to Bob's extremely rude and condescending post, and his ridiculously ill-informed remarks about the Technics (and my system), as the nonsense contained therein doesn't warrant a response.

All I will say is that, Bob, I asked/referred to (it doesn't really matter which) if you'd like to come round for a listen to some music if you were ever in the North Wales area, to which you didn't reply. Maybe that's not ignorant in your world, but in mine it most certainly is.

As for the rest of your impudent little rant, it just shows what kind of person you are, and also reveals your true colours.

Oh, and you can replace "control subject" with 'person' (or 'person being tested'), quite easily, and in the process make things seem just a tad friendlier and more human! Anyway, enjoy posting on whatever forum you end up on. You certainly won't be welcome back here.

Right, with personal insults flying left right and centre, I think that the thread has run its course, and this forever controversial and troublesome topic of discussion has unfortunately ended up yet again, living up to its reputation....

Marco.