Vsn'h:
" The individual motivations of these emotionally stunted creatures may
nev=
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be known, but we do know that They will never stop slandering and
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any audio professional who ventures onto Usenet.
It's always been about the Haves and Have-Nots. Howard was ****ed
when he found out that Art and I made over $70K a year (not a big
deal, IMO). CISG, judging from his posting schedule, is what Arny
used to call a "wage slave." And did you see how angry Arny became
this morning when I insisted that he wasn't a viable business
contact?
The publisher of our magazine gets hate mail from people who say ugly
things about his mother (who, by the way, is currently being treated
for cancer). These are older men like Arny and Howard, guys in their
60s who once thought the audio world was their hobby and then grew
bitter when they couldn't afford the good stuff. Then it became a
campaign of "snake oil" when in reality it was their substandard
hearing (and in Howard's case, a lifeless writing style).
Howard is involuntarily retired from reviewing, Arny's career in audio
never gained traction and God knows what horrific life CSIG leads. I
guess we should pity them."
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to comprehend that much of the most
expensive gear currently on offer through the audio saloons and reviewed
and advertised in Stereopile and The Obsolete Sound is vastly overpriced
in terms of build cost and also is of average or only moderately bettter
than average quality sonically and constructionally.
Also, the older guys grew up having to have at least a basic knowledge of
electronics, which today's younger people have only rarely. Most of them
built kits and did a lot of repair work, experience which is sorely
lacking among those under 50. There's no substitute for this kind of
duespaying. When I was younger there was still an electronics hobby but it
was heavily being pushed into computers, the electronics magazines dropped
audio (and RF) almost completely for the microcomputer field. When
computers became commodisumo items the magazines simply folded. The one
bright spot was, and still is, Ed (don't call him Amanda) Dell and The
Audio Amateur/OCSL/AUdioXPress. (The twiode ****nerollis sprung up for a
little while with specialist semi-underground journals but they did not
last.)
Now of course people "don't have time" for DIY because they're all
working 60-90 hours a week if they are making any kind of money at all.
Hopefully the coming depression will give the yupsters a little time to
take up a hobby.
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