Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , ruffrecords
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Dersu wrote:



Not just me but an entire yahoo group. Lot's of us have argued with
him but he has that annoying habit of passing off his opinions as fact.
The fact that his total system cost around $250,000 makes it for
anyone else to say 'I heard one of those and it sucks'


So try "Well since you are describing a system without offerring any way to
test your claims, we can't be bothered to take you seriously." Then simply
ignore any assertions he makes until such time as he offers to back them up
in a way you can use to test his claims. Trolls eventually starve if left
alone. :-)

After pressing him to let me go listen to his system he said there was
no need and any 5 to 10K vinyl system would be obviously superior to and
CD system so I should go to my local hi-fi shop and hear one.


If he knows this, he can specify a system that meets his criteria. If 'any'
will then he should find this easy enough if he has any clue. :-)


I would love to do this and be able to go back and say, I did that and
it still sounded crap. Hence the original question.


If he won't specify a system, then you can't listen to what he specifies.
Hence his claims are void of any practical meaning. His claims are the
information theory equivalent of random noise. This can be irritating when
you want a meaningful message, but you won't get far by trying to listen to
random noise and 'read meanings' into it. :-)

Life is too short. Ignore him and enjoy the music. Spend your money on more
music - LP or CD or DVD or whatever you prefer. :-)

Slainte,

Jim


I agree with all you say. The silly thing is the yahoo group
concerned is for reel to reel tape recorder enthusiasts. Occasionaly
someone talks about transfering vinyl to tape and that's the cue for
this guy to pop up and say vinyl is best. On a group with about 1000
members he's bound to get someone who'll disagree and a whole bunch of
bandwidth gets wasted for a few days and even it drives away a few
members. This happens perhpas every three months or so. His argument
is always the same - go listen to a high end vinyl system and see the
error of your ways. As we are all reel to reel enthusiasts no-one has
a high end vinyl system so he is fairly safe. As with many such people
he states opinions as if they were facts and as none of us has heard a
high vinyl system its hard to just say he is talking crap.

So all I want to do is go listen to a good 5 to 10K vinyl system so
that next time I can say he is talking crap. Anyway, it would be nice
to know just what the state of the art vinyl sounds like for my own
personal edification.

Ian