Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
The reference to cerwin vegas was an insult, they are basically car stereo speakers.
As for me not knowing what I am talking about, I've been doing this for a very long time,
do you think that my trip to this little forum is my first foray into HT or audio?
I havent started with any name calling but tend to be a bit outspoken, if speakers sound like crap, them I beleive in calling a spade a spade. If you consider that an insult then you need to get a life. Think my speakers are crap? I would be very interested in hearing your opinion.
But not on this forum.
Mr peabody you are one of the few with any grace and charm, with the intelligence to tell a joke from an "insult" or "lie", and you are truly gonna be missed.
But those like "rich in Texas? (not for long).
You say I refuse to admit when I am wrong, well how do you know?
You tried to hook NATILUS speakers to a HTIB for gods sake.
You are what we tech types call "lightswitch people", you flip a lightswitch and think nothing about the massive amount of effort it takes to make that little miracle work.
And you get all pissed off when we "know it alls' start to point out unpleasant facts
that poke through your little delusional bubble.
The truth is you need to sell those speakers to someone who appreciates them, and get you some nice ones from that mail order company that you got the rest of your
gear from.
And GM, well, you're named after a mortage company that just happens to sell cars on the side, and wont be doing that soon, and your moniker relates to automobiles
on a HT site. What more can I say?

One more little thing, I have a variety of albums (diamond dogs, gill scott heron, honkey
chateu) that I bought NEW in the 70's, and have had more turntables than you can beleive,
I think I know a little about their sonic qualities, and while I still enjoy listening to my records, they have about 50% of the dynamic range, wow and flutter, and pops and scratches
no matter how meticulously you clean them, they just dont sound as good as CD or SACD,
and if so called "audiophiles" want to claim so then thats their credibility, but I am always being lumped into that group, and it gets old.
Its really funny that you claim I dont "know much" about this stuff when I built a
three stage FET amp during my third year of electronics class, IN 1975.
Way before most on this site were more than a wet spot on their mothers side of the bed.
You may not like what I have to say but if you live long enough you will find that most,
not all but most is true. A bit unpleasant but true.
Especially in the case of old rich, there will always be a market for DLP front projectors
but the "microprojection" form factor is doomed, just no market for it.
Rant and rave all you want rich, but your company will take a hit on these
As for having no idea about tube amps, when I was working on TVsets most still had
tubes.
Most "high end " tube amps are based on the single end triode, that was basically
obsolete in 1934, the emitters are powered by a heater circuit that is basically like having
a space heater in your gear. That "tube" sound you and other love is harmonic distortion
(at least 5% in most tube gear) If you like that sort of thing fine, but please dont say
I am "pissing people off because I dont know what I am talking about.
Seems like I am pissing people off because I DO know what I am talking about.
In time maybe a few will come to understand what I was trying to do on this site, after they think about it for awhile, but I think it best that all of you sit around and chat about
such things a "video vs audio" (or apples vs oranges?) for now
What I think is that you are a regular here who is masquerading as a pixel. Some of what you say is based on truth but then you go off on tangents that are either nuts or a joke. My guess is that they are meant as jokes. No one is clueless enough to think that "GMichael" has anything to do with General Motors. So I conclude that it was a joke. Do I win a stuffed bunny for getting that right? By the way, my moniker was changed to a speaker about a week ago. Still not paying attention I see. And stop picking on Mater. He's cool.

I know lots of people who have been doing things for years and still don't know what they're doing. Again, some of what you say it truth, but then you slip into making statements that are crazy. Maybe you mean them to be jokes, but you can't blame people for thinking that you are clueless when you say such craziness at times. It's like you are on a kick to be as absurd as possible.

Also, outspoken and rude are not the same thing. If you are walking down the street and see a woman in a funky hat, to run up to her and tell her that she looks ridiculous is rude. If she comes up to you and asks how she looks and you tell her that you don't like her hat, that's outspoken. Telling people that they need to trade their $10,000 speakers in for a HTiB because it would sound better is rude, not outspoken. If you like running up to people and saying rude things, that's your business. But you should know that it is rude and not just outspoken.
But I think I'm wasting my typing. I think you already know all of this. I think that you are here to stir things up because you are board. I think you are saying things that you know are crazy in hopes of getting people to respond. That's cool. We could use a little color around the place. But who are you really? Are we meant to guess?
And if you are truly serious about everything you are saying, then, well, sorry. I think your hat is very nice.