Talk but not walk?

Yes, I will most certainly flag your post kosst. I recommend that anyone who sees clear abuse of others, be it me or anyone else should be flagged and removed. If you were on TuneLand you would get a warning to be civil like what is expected of any grown person. If you continued you would be banned, which I have a feeling you have been banned before.

Secondly, if you feel the mods are not doing their job, step up to the plate and start your own forum, and set your own rules. Continuingly pouting about you not being able to spread discord is an odd look for a hobby about enjoying music.

Thirdly, I don’t see the hobby of being an audiophile shrinking at all. What we do see shrinking is your particular part of the hobby. You can go about casting doubt on tweaks all you wish but the reality is listeners are and have been "doing" the hobby and exploring every part great or small in an effort to make their system sound the way they want since the beginning of this great hobby. Why that would make you so angry is the mystery here. Like I have said, you probably respond the way you do because that is the type of person you are. As well others happy about the hobby tend to share the joys of tuning their system in.

As others here have said many times over and continue to invite you to join in, we (the hobby) welcome your positive contributions and those of anyone who has actually done and have something to share based on the doing.

Michael Green

Kosst

Can I ask you a question, are you an underwriter? I didn’t think so, because if you were you could have every part you use in your playing around with audio gear tested to see if it has a UL code or rating. It’s not hard to do. The reason why I haven’t responded to your allegations up till now is because I would hope that you would have studied a little more and in time be able to move beyond making uninformed statements.

To start with, I do not sell power cords. I sell power cord kits. No different from you or anyone else walking into Home Depot and purchasing raw parts and taking them home to make something. I believe you said you built an amp once. Did you get that amp UL approved? Of course you didn’t. Any one of the parts inside of your amp could malfunction at any time and start a fire. I don’t see folks here throwing temper tantrums like you do about your tinkering.

Did you know that when anyone makes an electrical tweak to their electronics it voids the underwriting of that product? No, I didn’t think you did. You see Kosst your the perfect example of a talker. Someone who speaks without proper knowledge on a topic. If you look back at my product page you will see that I list 4 types of Bare Essence wire. You will also find that there is a UL on every part. In fact there isn’t a part I use anywhere that has to do with electricity that doesn’t have a UL. Again it’s not that hard to look up a gauge or rating to see what to use with what.

Let me give you another example. Take a simple low grade long extension cord and hook it up to a heavy duty piece of equipment and run it hard. That cord may heat up. Is Kosst camping outside of Walmart protesting? Of course not, no one is there to watch him pump up his chest who would give a rats (A).

Kosst, do a little walking and then come back. All the uberwaltz-s in the world aren’t going to make you look any more knowledgeable. You either know because you have actually studied a topic or you don’t. Trying to say I’m doing something wrong doesn’t really hold much weight, except to those who like you live here to get attention. Some of you folks spend way too much time on these forums and in time they become your only reality. Trust me it shows. You end up showing people you aren’t really in the hobby of advanced listening at all, and you attempt to make the hobby look less important than it is to true music enthusiast. You have lost your way in mediocrity, and instead of congratulating each other when they have done something cool and fun you show your misery and negativity. You know, no matter how much you moan & groan your only appealing to other moaners & groaners. That’s your choice of course to try to make it look like those of us who are actually doing the hobby and enjoying it, and are happy to share it, aren’t for real some how. Your making the hobby fade with every word and you can’t even see it, till it’s gone that is.

Michael Green

Hi Inna

I absolutely do not fit in here and honestly am not trying to. When I come to HEA sites there is something that happens that you can't see from these pages, hundreds of emails, PMs and calls. I'm here for the onlookers and those who have been RoomTune and MGA clients in the past wanting to hook up again after years of me being away from the mainstream.

What you see me talking about comes from the members who contact me directly, most of them disappointed in these types of forums even though they would love to be apart. When I first showed up a couple, maybe few, months ago I started receiving maybe 5 emails a week which quickly grew to over 50. You'll notice that I left for a while. Now I'm back for 1 or 2 days and then I'll be gone again.

If I'm going to hang out somewhere on a long term scale it won't be here. It was important for me to spend time on the Stereophile forum (got very weird there) then on this forum and a few others mostly audiophile, music and pro.

Good Tuner? LOL. Inna the people who know I tune don't hang out here. Audiogon and forums like it basically run in cycles. That's not my crowd. I was going to do a thread that I did start here on tuning but after seeing the amount of trolling it would be a waste of my time. I realize that as well do the members who have made contact with me. In other words I don't see folks who post here as people to convert to something that has already been growing on it's own with just a few appearances here from me. Believe it or not the trolling of me has been a great success as far as converting and listeners beginning or continuing to tune. So my friend I might be amateur, but the tide is turning more than you think. I'm good with that.

I learned a big lesson while at Stereophile and that is mingling with those who live on these forums is not my gig, nor should it be my goal. Inna, I tune all day long that's what I do and is what I have always done. Peddling my worth here is nothing more than saying hello to those looking to tune. Of course I don't fit in here, but it's a great place to meet folks who are fed up with the way HEA has turned out. Again not on these pages but those looking from a distance.

I hope that doesn't disappoint, just being honest as I always will be.

Michael Green