Roy wrote:
"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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I am a little mystified by the people who spend time on this forum
and yet have no interest whatsoever, and nothing to contribute on
the subject of tube audio. Why do they bother?

Dear Mr Jute,

From this comment and from a similar view you posted in another thread, it
seems your main issue is with "non-glassheads" coming onto your beloved
hobby group RAT with their anti valve (sorry tube) views. Why then do you
not make your responses on that group only? Why do you feel the need to
spread your contributions across other groups too (especially UKRA)?

Roy.

My dear Mr Roy,

I am always happy to explain my actions and words, but the words you
quote were not spoken by me but by the longtime Ukrainian Iain
Churches.

Here is my full post, with my own words (and those of Iain and Patrick
Turners as well), and the explanation you seek below that:

*****Iain Churches wrote:
"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
...

Iain Churches wrote:

So, a thread from Trevor, on the subject of NFB and stability
would be of interest to many I think.

I doubt if Trevor could do any better than feign interest in any tube
discussion.
We all know he is insincere though.

Let's see if he starts the NFB thread.

Wilson won't. There's a pattern here. Pinkerton, offered an opportunity

to design a tube amp to prove he knows more than we do, refused on the
ground that it would be "nitpicked to death". Wilson obviously has all
the time in the world to write thousands of words about my articles, to

iterate his silly demands that Patrick or I write about the intricacies

of NFB yet again. But when he is invited to contribute an article on
NFB, he claims's he's too busy. Pearce, Krueger, all the other flame
merchants, contribute nothing in their soundbites. Apparently they want

to nitpick everyone else to death but cannot bear exposing themselves
to criticism. They're probably right. If they ever tried to do what
Patrick Turner and John Byrns and you and I do daily, namely actually
explain things, we would soon discover how much they know. They clearly

fear that we will discover they know very little.

I am a little mystified by the people who spend time on this forum
and yet have no interest whatsoever, and nothing to contribute on
the subject of tube audio. Why do they bother?

It's an easy thing to explain for anyone who grew up in a small town.
Wilson, Pinkerton, Krueger, Pearce, and assorted hangers-on like
McKelvy, Wieck, etc, are dried up old maids. twitching their net
curtains, peering out at people having fun, pursing their sour little
mouths and calling the vicar to stop the parade. Their preference of
silicon is dead -- or they believe it is -- with nothing left to decide

except whether Bose or Apple will inherit the remains. There is no
interest left in silicon -- and can you actually believe that such arid

people ever really loved music? -- so our glee in our tubes is doubly
offensive to them, a condition aggravated by the malice ingrained in
their petty, spiteful personalities.

In short, this scum is hounding us for the same reason that school
bullies take the marbles from smaller boys: not because they really
want the marbles but for the sick satisfaction of denying someone else
pleasure. I would bet a year of Pinkerton's salary that every one of
them pulled the wings from butterflies when they were boys.

*******
So, now to answer your question:

The reason I post this to UKRA as well is that the silicon slime came
from UKRA about eighteen months ago with the good wishes of the rest of
the clowns on UKRA -- and with the express purpose of maliciously
wrecking a major project on which RAT was then embarked. I warned UKRA
then that there would be a price to pay; they sneered and jeered, of
course. I don't hear them sneering and jeering any more; before I
finish they will despise Pinkerton, Pearce and the rest of that clutch
of clowns as we on RAT do. I guarantee it.

In short, dear Mr Roy, the scum invaded my patch -- rather
ineffectually, admittedly, but their lack of success is irrelevant when
their impertinence stands on the record -- so now I'm showing them how
it is done by someone competent.

If you're squeamish, you might wish to take a sabbatical until the
Silicon Slime cuts and runs, as eventually they will, though I bet they
are obdurate enough to stay long enough for me to do a permanent job on
their reputations.

Andre Jute
When I stop smiling there is always blood on the carpet. Funny thing:
it is never mine.