"Howard (Hardscrabble®) Ferstler" wrote

This is enough for now.

You'll be back. You can't help yourself. Why not just
acknowledge it?


You guys have been pumped dry enough during this series of
exchanges to give me all the poop I need for the article,
and then some. If I get any more I will have to make it a
two parter.

Sensible Sound, a magazine publication in search of
an audience, in a shrinking marketplace.

Howard wrote in a follow-up to Stereophile "All your Class
C and D product ratings do is make poor people feel bad,
in spite of what you say."

Howard, you think pursuit of preference is a social class
struggle and see yourself as gatekeeper. Sensible Sound
at 80 pages of large typeset for $7. What economic class
does that serve... certainly not the "poor?"


Time to get it rolling along. I may lurk occasionally, just to
come up with some new ideas for the essay. Trust me when
I say that I will not lurk much, however.

"Trust me"... Hardscrabble®.


Enjoy your low-fi systems and your discussions
concerning sex, politics, psychology, personalities, and,
well, it appears anything out there but serious audio.

When you're not preaching from the soapbox you're
passing around your retirement hat (scamming to
newbies). No thanks, I gave at the office.