The best and worst Audiogon poster's

Hi Eldragon; The Garfish or "Gar" is a long, slender fish of U.S. temperate waters; a fast and fierce predator. And an honorable fish, IMHO. Cheers. Craig.

Garfish, I had wondered about your post name too. I clearly remember as a young boy, when my friends and I used to go fishing. We would often see Gar in the water, just enough below the water to make it difficult to judge their actions. That particular fish would often come up to my hook, eat the bait off, and swim away. They were too smart to take the hook and get caught. Really made it difficult to keep the line in the water long enough to get a catch. Perhaps this is why you are able to "take the bait" at Audiogon, while never getting "hooked" into a battle with another poster. Could this be?

Albert; thanks for the fun comments re: "Gar". Never really meant to be secretive about my last name-- Garland, but AudiogoN kind of encourages User Names. In athletics, college, and early professional years my nickname was "Gar" and sometimes Garfish. As to AudiogoN posts, I've had a few "heated exchanges" with others, but I try to avoid them and much prefer "pleasant" . You do "pleasant" better than anyone on here. Cheers. Craig Garland.

I prefer to read or participate in any thread which is not degraded with infantile trading of insults and groundless claims of superiority. I believe that anyone who cannot be civil with anyone else who holds an opinion different from theirs about boxes full of electronic stuff does not deserve an audience here. All you adolescent audio freaks should just chill with a little elevator music for a few minutes before venting your childish wrath here in public.

I came in a little late to this thread but something Carl posted earlier is directed at me. “Now, if some guy says "My wife and I have young single women over to the house all the time, who are hard core audiophiles every bit as much as we are", I find that essentially IMPOSSIBLE to believe, and ALSO RESENT IT.” Perhaps your level of resentment made you blind to meaning of my post. My post was a specific counter example prompted by your post were you were questioned whether there were women who would want to listen to recorded music and care about the sound. There are. I’m married to one and we are close friends with the other two. However, we are hard core MUSIC LOVERS. Our interest in audio equipment is because we want the best possible sound to recreate the musical experience. We know that virtually everything will impact the sound. We each have our preferences in the trade-offs involved in high end audio down to what brand of tubes to use. But it is all about the music. Only occasionally do we spend hours listening to equipment but EVERY week we spend hours listening to music.