I think the TV show thing is ridiculous, but I don't feel the need to address it in this thread or get in fights with people. I find it bizarre that this is the second DDC thread in a couple months that you've burnt to the ground after getting pissed at certain people and fighting them.
Well thanks for that! Finally an agreement. No need to close the thread - just because I'm not here. I got the ball rolling - now you'll can keep it going. Am I sooo important that this thread can't exist without me? Not at all! The other DDC Gustard thread had hit a deadend - I left it - but it was the moderator who decided to close it. I never requested that.
@abartels opened his and with in a few pages became a Raspberry Pi thread. The XMOS DDC thing had become stale - until the XU208 arrived.
Maybe I'm being petty - too myopic. I have put up with being called a 'Hype' by Prot and some others (read what he says about me on Alex's DDC thread! Really abusive), with Alex seeming to concur - at least not contradict him. But that's just prot - so I take it as just him (he was banned from CA after all and even has a thread there named after him - quiet the honor - NOT).
Here is how my TV dialogue friend started:
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5/1/16 at 7:44pm
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Yup. For the uninitiated and the tragically unhip, that's a PUC 2 Lite on the down low and an F-1 riding it bareback.
Ohhhhhhhh -- Child! IT'S ON like Donkey Kong up in here!!!!
rb- your reputation has all come down to.....
this
I thought well OK - this guy must be a real audio guy and is calling my reputation out on his verdict...let's see? Did I get into his grill over it - no.
I did warn him to place some mylar under the F-1 while laying it on top of the PUC2 metal case - when powered up. As there are exposed contacts on the bottom - that was the first sign he really didn't know what he was doing - but yet has the temerity to claim he is the arbiter of MY reputation. But still I tried to help the guy.
Then goes off on new popular music and music with drums and bass - music without 'nuance' or something like that is - just 'produced' whatever that means. OK That's a bit offensive - but fine I guess - but I can tell he's not what I expected. And certainly has no creed to judge on my reputation.
Then the coupe de grace - the infamous TV dialogue review - non-review. His non-review even nuancing the F-1 as solid state sounding (Krell like), and the PUC2 Lite tubeish (AR like). Well fine if that's his judgement then OK - but he made it WITHOUT music! How can you possibly judge this level of nuance by watching 'Silicon Valley' on HBO (great show by the way). At least 'Game of Thrones' has music in the background. If it was some kind of live music, like KEXP, or PBS, or the ARTS channels have - fine. Still hard to nuance with a high voltage flat screen in the mix - mine makes a low level buzzing (esp when the screen goes from black to white).
Then calls my reputation suspect based on this! Absurd.
I call him out on it - and I get chastised - he gets defended here!
My thinking is a curated thread on CA would be the solution - not my prefered route - but better then this BS. Honest, well thought out opinions and reviews will be kept (even ones that disagree with me) - the silly and abusive stuff tossed.
Problem solved. I'll take a week off and see. This really is time consuming and I have some major work projects coming up, that'll put the audio stuff on the back burner.
Meanwhile - everyone should continue having fun posting here.