"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.

Powell wrote:


"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?"



It serves those using porta-toilets needing something with which to wipe.


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®.


Tell that to the folks at Quad Acoustical Manufacturing Company.




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.




He's currently looking for a circus tent and a few more clowns with whom to
share his scams. Plagiarism, anyone:?


Bruce J. Richman

Subject: Ferstler's Research is Complete
From: George M. Middius
Date: 8/14/2004 2:04 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

The paranoid personality posting as "George M. Middius" croaked:

snip

the pestilence of
anonymous trolls that infests all of Usenet.


Irony, anyone? ;-)

On 14 Aug 2004 19:09:20 GMT, (Torresists) wrote:

Subject: Ferstler's Research is Complete
From: George M. Middius
Date: 8/14/2004 2:04 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

The paranoid personality posting as "George M. Middius" croaked:

snip

the pestilence of
anonymous trolls that infests all of Usenet.


Irony, anyone? ;-)

Irony, anyone?

George M. Middius wrote:


Bruce J. Richman said:

"Filler articles" when used in the context of a highly respected and very
selective academic journal is a figment of Ferstler's delusional
imagination.

I once worked at a small professional association that used the APA's
publishing guidelines. Horace, if you're reading this, the slop you hustle
into print wouldn't past muster at any publisher whose standards are in
the same league as those of the APA. Even at the small association where I
worked, we routinely checked facts, rewrote sentences and entire
paragraphs, and tidied up references for consistency. Of course, this was
a scientific environment, which you can't be expected to understand.













What is so ironic is that Clarabelle has written articles for 2
small-circulation audio magazines that basically try to have it both ways -
almost all of their content is subjective and they accept advertising from
"high-end" manufacturers. But then, sadly, they tolerate the plagiarized and
fact-deprived scrawlings of raving lunatic like Ferstler, who can't even
distinguish fact from fiction. Perhaps this explains why their circulations
are so small.



Bruce J. Richman

Dr. Richman said:

What is so ironic is that Clarabelle has written articles for 2
small-circulation audio magazines that basically try to have it both ways -
almost all of their content is subjective and they accept advertising from
"high-end" manufacturers. But then, sadly, they tolerate the plagiarized and
fact-deprived scrawlings of raving lunatic like Ferstler, who can't even
distinguish fact from fiction. Perhaps this explains why their circulations
are so small.

It should be noted, however, that while Howard's name still appears on the
masthead of The Audiophile Voice, it has been quite a long time since he has
had an article published there.

Boon

Mr. Phillips wrote:


Dr. Richman said:

What is so ironic is that Clarabelle has written articles for 2
small-circulation audio magazines that basically try to have it both ways -
almost all of their content is subjective and they accept advertising from
"high-end" manufacturers. But then, sadly, they tolerate the plagiarized
and
fact-deprived scrawlings of raving lunatic like Ferstler, who can't even
distinguish fact from fiction. Perhaps this explains why their circulations
are so small.

It should be noted, however, that while Howard's name still appears on the
masthead of The Audiophile Voice, it has been quite a long time since he has
had an article published there.

Boon








I didn't know that, since I don't read the Audiophile Voice. It sounds like
perhaps that publication's attornies have found out about Clarabelle's
Adverntures in Libel on RAO.



Bruce J. Richman

From: George M. Middius
Date: 8/15/2004 2:43 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:



Horace Fecklebeans cowers behind his very ugly sofa.

why not give us (well, in this case me) a brief
rundown of just what your basic views are about audio.
Nothing lengthy or involved. Just a basic overview.

I don't know why you're harassing Bruce. I can speak for all of the
Normals on this issue.

Audiowise, you are an idiot. It's our view that your head is deeply
embedded in your posterior, that everything you say is either questionable
or outright wrong, and that nobody in their right mind would take your
advice for any purchase over $200.

Am I right, or am I right? Right! I'm right!



Mostly, I think you failed to mention the holy war aspect of Howard's views on
audio and his willingness to lie and cheat to further his religious cause.

From: George M. Middius
Date: 8/16/2004 5:02 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:



S888Wheel said:

Horace Fecklebeans cowers behind his very ugly sofa.

why not give us (well, in this case me) a brief
rundown of just what your basic views are about audio.
Nothing lengthy or involved. Just a basic overview.

I don't know why you're harassing Bruce. I can speak for all of the
Normals on this issue.

Audiowise, you are an idiot. It's our view that your head is deeply
embedded in your posterior, that everything you say is either questionable
or outright wrong, and that nobody in their right mind would take your
advice for any purchase over $200.

Am I right, or am I right? Right! I'm right!



Mostly, I think you failed to mention the holy war aspect of Howard's views
on
audio and his willingness to lie and cheat to further his religious cause.

I thought you were taking everything Clerkie says with a grain of salt.

Here, yes. He can't be that stupid.Can he? OTOH there is no getting around his
plagiarism and there is no getting around his ABX DBTs that either contradict
his beliefs and possibly were deliberately spiked with bad data. His
"published" work bears the strong scent of religious zealotry.