Marc Phillips wrote:

Howard said:

Actually, I do not write as much as I did in the past for
any magazine, and have voluntarily backed off. Becoming lazy
in my old age. I might do some work for Gene Pitts again one
of these days, but right now I have all I can handle writing
for TSS. I enjoy writing for Gene, and maybe he will send me
some exotic speakers to audition one of these days. The last
package, some terrific NHT Evolution models, were fun as
hell to fool with.

Trust me, Routledge (which is a branch of Taylor & Francis,
one of the largest publishers in the world) is not about to
let a plagiarizer put material into one of their books. The
plagiarism thing (and its supposed seriousness as presented
on this pint-sized, often dysfunctional chat group) is more
a phantom of your mind than anything that would trouble a
major publisher.

And we're supposed to take the word of a known plagiarist that all of this is
true?

Contact them and ask for details. The book is coming out. It
has my contributions. I love this "known plagiarist" comment
of yours. You fixate on it the same way you fixate on
"pedophile" when dealing with Arny.

Actually, your tactic is typical for someone who knows
little about the topic at hand. Rather than deal with audio,
you divert issues and deal with people you dislike and
hammer away at irrelevant themes. My guess is that you are a
tricky and somewhat ignorant little tweako audio journalist
or sales clerk who has a vested interest in baloney.

Let's face it. Work has slowed down for you since your fraudulant episode.

Only because I choose to slow it down. Trust me, virtually
none of the people I write for give a flip about what
happens here and none want me to back off.

Except for the fact that news of your plagiarism spread beyond the walls of
RAO.

Yeah, and gravity pulls us upward. But I will give you a
chance. Go do me some damage with your observations. Go
ahead, spud, do me some damage.

Actually, I think you and a few others here have invented a
demon with Arny. That you seem obsessed with pedophiliac
behavior says more about you than about him. Lots more.

That's an easy cop-out that Arny likes to use. That you would use it too is
very suspicious. In essence you are saying that it is wrong to be bothered by
the presence of a sex offender.

The sex offender thing is your invention, spud, or certainly
your private fixation. Arny forgets more about audio in a
week than you have learned in your entire life. You resent
that, and to divert threads away from that fact you create a
fabricated monster and then rail against it.

If the world agreed with you, it would not be
mandatory for sex offenders to notify a neighborhood that they are moving in.
You and Arny against the world, eh, Howard?

No, pal, me and Arny against you, although only at reduced
energy levels. You do not rate serious treatment.

Actually, I imagine that there are a number of people here
on RAO who are both able to digest what I posted regarding
soundstaging and willing and able to learn something beyond
the baloney that people like you post.

Nice generalization there. In the real world, I help people daily with
audio
matters, and I get thanked daily.

Get thanked daily? I imagine that so did Hitler, Stalin, and
Saddam.

Non-response noted. It indicates that fan mail is an alien concept to you.
Good thing those as-yet unnamed publishers think the world of you, eh?

The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound is due out shortly.

In the six years I've written about audio,
not one person has complained that I gave them bad advice.

Again proving that ignorance is bliss. The average Best Buy
customer probably feels the same way.

So, in other words, no one has ever thanked you for your audio advice.

I get paid for my work, spud. Trust me, many a Best Buy
clerk has also been thanked for his help after selling
somebody a set of fairly expensive wires, and I suppose many
high-end clerks have been thanked for selling someone wires
that cost more than his speakers. I wonder how many people
you have suckered into purchasing expensive wires and line
conditioners, or overpriced amps and CD players. Yes, you
are quite the moral gentleman, spud.

Sure I can. Hell, I stayed away for several months. You
obviously did not stay away, however. Again, your comments
say more about you than they do about me.

No, they don't.

Oh, yes they do. Yes they do! Haw, haw, haw.

I wasn't caught plagiarizing.

A claim of skill on your part. Your criminal abilities are
profound.

I have no reason to leave. In
fact, just a few days ago, I met with two other RAO regulars and listened to
music all day and then had a wonderful meal. My friends are here. There's no
reason for me to leave.

RAO: the fool's paradise.

You, however, are reviled and pitied here. I wonder why you stay.

To bug guys like you, spud, and to protect newbies from
being buffaloed by you and your crew.

You are addicted to the Internet, and you are addicted to RAO. The months
you
spent exiled from here were the worst times in your life. And you lurked
here
almost daily, because whenever your name was mentioned, there you were.

Actually, if you check back you will see that I rarely came
on board and posted anything. Trust me, if I had really been
lurking I would also have been posting.

When your name was mentioned, you did.

Yeah, funny coincidence. However, if you check around a bit
I have recently been posting quite a bit in places where my
name did not show up at all. However, for the past few
months before I got rolling again that did not happen. Do
you really think I would have let you guys get away with
spouting your standard claptrap if I had been scoping the
threads for all those months?

I've discussed audio with you. I found you pedestrian, unoriginal,
boorish,
narrow-minded, and unable to elaborate your point without retreating to get
more information from your keepers. I've even discussed your boorish
behavior
in print.

See, I told you I was I was an audio celebrity in some
circles. Actually, if I had the kind of attitude you clowns
have I would start scoping for the printed material you
mentioned and be ready to phone my lawyer.

Actually, if you didn't suffer from severe short-term memory loss, you'd
realize that I posted the link to the article just a few weeks ago, and you
commented upon it.

I rather think not. In any case, keep posting comments about
me all over the place. My editors and publishers, bless
their crafty little hearts, like that sort of thing.

However, I relish
you printing material about me, bad or good. Remember what I
said about celebrity.

Yes. "Read my books! Read my books!"

Actually, two of my four books are kind of out of date (not
to mention out of print), although the material about amps,
speakers, CD players, etc. is still relevant, and of course
my jabs about goofy gimmicks like exotic wires, line
conditioners, and other baloney, as well as about overpriced
amps, players, and even speakers are still on the mark. So,
the books, particularly The Home Theater Companion, would
still be good used-book discount purchases.

On the other hand, my two record-review books are still OK
(although the first one is long out of print), provided one
can find the recordings reviewed. Obviously, some will no
longer be available. Still, the comments hold, and of course
I continue to review recordings for The Sensible Sound, and
also write commentary columns and review some hardware. So,
if one cannot read my books at least they should read my
magazine materials.

Come on - go read the article. It will help you regenerate
some of those brain cells.

No, it won't.

Well, some people are simply beyond the cure, but I do
suggest a regular diet of fish as a possible fix.

Howard Ferstler