"Andre Jute" wrote


Beats my '**** 'em, if they don't like it' by a country mile.....

Keith, would you mind terribly not agreeing with me. I find it deeply
disturbing to discover a sensible fellow on UKRA. It interferes with my
preconception that you are all PinkoUnreliable clones over there. My
prejudices are protected under recent British laws, in case you haven't
been watching the news.



There are not many 'sensible' people left in ukra - most of them have
demonstrated a significant *lack* of common sense and have abandoned the
group to get on with other (Real Life) things....

Strange, isn't it? ;-)

"Andre Jute" wrote


Come to think of it, that's not the softest troll. Once I slipped away
for a few weeks to finish illustrating a book. In my absence the flame
war continued unabated, the scum turning on those who after a few weeks
told them that I wasn't there, hadn't posted for weeks, and was
probably laughing my head off on holiday. Apparently they couldn't
think of anything else to do except to flame me, even when I wasn't
there.


Given the the number of times the Cables War Troll has been (and still is,
even as I type) trundled out with (unfailingly) great success, I am not at
all surprised to hear that!


Charisma is the ability to induce apoplectic fits in the under-endowed
by merely existing.


Certainly, but it does help if the audience is *especially* susceptible.....

;-)

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article . com,
Andre Jute wrote:
You must have been a lad more recently than me, Keith. 12W sufficed
even when I was a young man. I bought the first set of Quad ESL into
South Africa at the Rand Show, together with Quad II to drive them.
They were half the power of your memory!

Quad II were 12 watt? Mine must have come from a different factory...

The makers' specification states::
Maximum power 15W.
THD 3H and higher at 12W = 0.1%.

It is generally regarded as a 12W amp, in the same way
as the Radford STA25 (max power 30W) was regarded
as a 25W amp.


The standard DIY starter amp for many years was the Mullard designed 3/3.


People still build them. It's a great first project:-)
A metal shop by the name of Spire Audio offfered pre-cut chassis kits, and
front plates, and sold several hundred in a very short space of time.

Iain

"Glenn Richards" wrote in message
...
Andre Jute wrote:

[justified rant about Pinkerton snipped]

Unfortunately, Stewart Pinkerton is one of those freaks of nature who is
always right, even when he's been proved wrong. "Never let the truth/facts
get in the way of a good argument", etc etc.

For example:

If you can hear a difference between two interconnects/speaker cables,
you're either "lying", "arrogant" or "stupid".

It's a true statement

If you think valve amps sound better than solid state, you're a
"cloth-eared idiot".

Another true statement, the only thing Tubes could do is sound as good as SS
or worse, it is impossible for them to be better.

If you think vinyl can sound better than CD, you've "suffered severe
hearing damage at birth".

Yet another true statment.

Oh, and apparently MP3 is indistinguishable from CD (or uncompressed WAV,
or FLAC, Apple Lossless etc).

And the proof that thin is not so is where?

Pinkerton is of the "I am right, you are wrong" brigade.

Only becuase the brigae he's in, is made up of actual EE's and the people
bitching about him haven't even been to an electronics school.

"Glenn Richards" wrote in message
...
Don Pearce wrote:

I think you will find he has always presented - quite correctly - an
alternative option. You are mistaken. There are certain individuals
for whom he has moved towards the "liar" option, with justification.

No, he's always been rude and abusive when someone posts something that
doesn't agree with his narrow mindset of opinion.


He's always been rude and abusive to people who are rude and abusive.

You, on the other hand, seem much more reasonable. You may disagree with
me that cables make a difference to the sound, for example (as I recall
you did), but you do so in a much more civilised manner than Pinkerton.
And, most importantly, you do it without resorting to personal insults and
name-calling.

The end result of which is that you can have a sensible debate without
****ing off 80% of contributors (plus an unknown number of lurkers) in the
group.

Something that Pinkerton could do very well to learn from.

--
Glenn Richards Tel: (01453) 845735
Squirrel Solutions http://www.squirrelsolutions.co.uk/

IT consultancy, hardware and software support, broadband installation

"dave weil" wrote in message
...
On 2 Mar 2006 09:08:19 -0800, "
wrote:

I'm on record for years, repeatedly, ad nauseam, as saying
that the finest amp I ever designed is a Class A triode-linked EL34
push pull amp with adjustable negative feedback. I have PP amps too,
several. I've never even met a SETtie who had *only* a SET amp.


The question is why would anyone want an SET for anything more than
soldering practice?

Well, maybe because they like the sound, whether or not it's "more
accurate".

Seems pretty logical to me.

Fine as long as they don't claim it is more accurate than a SS amp. Jute
goes on rants about this crap and then gets ****ed when he's shown his
factual errors. That plus the lies and attack threads make him far from
logicial. I think that most of it is crap designed to pull people's chains,
and that's how he gets his fun.

wrote in message
nk.net...

"Glenn Richards" wrote in message
If you think vinyl can sound better than CD, you've "suffered severe
hearing damage at birth".

Yet another true statment.


Why do you act like all CD recordings have the same sound quality?
It simply isn't so and I have quite a few albums that do sound lots
better than their CD release. I also have a few albums that stand up
well against most CDs. I have a few CDs that actually perform to
a level the technology is capable of, but rarely delivers.

ScottW

Scottie said:

I have quite a few albums that do sound lots
better than their CD release. I also have a few albums that stand up
well against most CDs. I have a few CDs that actually perform to
a level the technology is capable of, but rarely delivers.

Mikey say: Scottie insane. Go buy bananas! Lie down quick!

In article et,
wrote:

"Glenn Richards" wrote in message
...
Andre Jute wrote:

[justified rant about Pinkerton snipped]

Unfortunately, Stewart Pinkerton is one of those freaks of nature who is
always right, even when he's been proved wrong. "Never let the truth/facts
get in the way of a good argument", etc etc.

For example:

If you can hear a difference between two interconnects/speaker cables,
you're either "lying", "arrogant" or "stupid".

It's a true statement

If you think valve amps sound better than solid state, you're a
"cloth-eared idiot".

Another true statement, the only thing Tubes could do is sound as good as SS
or worse, it is impossible for them to be better.

If you think vinyl can sound better than CD, you've "suffered severe
hearing damage at birth".

Yet another true statment.

Oh, and apparently MP3 is indistinguishable from CD (or uncompressed WAV,
or FLAC, Apple Lossless etc).

And the proof that thin is not so is where?

Pinkerton is of the "I am right, you are wrong" brigade.

Only becuase the brigae he's in, is made up of actual EE's and the people
bitching about him haven't even been to an electronics school.



Which qualifies him for judging how things sound?

"ScottW" wrote in message
news:VFKPf.135464$0G.56970@dukeread10
wrote in message
nk.net...

"Glenn Richards" wrote
in message
If you think vinyl can sound better than CD, you've
"suffered severe hearing damage at birth".

Yet another true statment.


Why do you act like all CD recordings have the same
sound quality?

Straw man.

It simply isn't so and I have quite a few
albums that do sound lots better than their CD release.

Bad mastering. So what?

I also have a few albums that stand up well against most
CDs. I have a few CDs that actually perform to a level the technology is
capable of, but rarely delivers.

Actually, the audio CD format is capable of dynamic range and low distortion
that simply cannot be exploited with any real-world recording of live music
or music played on non-electronic instruments. Even most electronic
instruments are hard-pressed to produce truely CD quality sound.

Therefore, you probably have no CDs that actually perform to a level the
technology is capable of.