[Bret L]

Postjudice is coming to conclusions about something based on its
characteristics after one has had experience with other items with
similar characteristics.

Everyone has a few postjudices. For example, I'm postjudiced against
Borg Warner automatic transmissions. They are fragile and expensive to
rebuild so I recommend replacing them where possible with
alternatives. I'm postjudiced against the neck pickup in Telecasters
because they are essentially useless and about any other pickup you
can come up with works better in there. I'm postjudiced against
Domino's Pizza because, although I have never tried to eat a used Stay-
Free Mini-Pad, it could hardly be less disgusting than the product
Domino's delivers in this and every other market I've been in that has
Domino's.

On the other hand I have prejudices too. For example, I have a friend
that recently bought a $6000 guitar because the guy in a geriatric New
Wave band he really likes has one. I have never seen, held or touched
this guitar, but I'm betting it's going to be a disappointment. It's
really difficult to pack six large worth of goodness into a solidbody
guitar. Another reason I have to doubt this guitar's ass-kick
quotient is that the only known user is this guy's hero, who actually
is a dreadful guitarist. (He did, however, have the sense to respond
to being dumped by the geriatric lead singer by marrying a pretty hot
young Italian broad and having a couple of kids with her,so he isn't
totally lame.) I'm going over this weekend to look at this thing,
though, and if it really is all that I'll give it props.

Another prejudice I have is against expensive, small two or three way
speakers. Now, I have heard a lot of them, including the Castles, the
Harbeths, and other Brit offerings, but I have not heard all of them,
so it is possible some are really a lot better than commodity or
homebrew/Madisound kit offerings of similar size and drastically lower
price. But I'm just not inclined to spend a hell of a lot of time
continually retesting that thesis when the time is better used in
listening to, selecting, and modifying BIG speakers which DO perform
lots better than a $300 Madisound pair or a pair of active monitors
from Guitar Center which save buying a power amp. Or, is this really
postjudice? Some judices are part pre and part post, I guess.