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In Reply to: RE: EXACTLY what is it that you need to know about that company that Stereophile failed to tell you??? posted by John Marks on May 08, 2014 at 07:39:32
My issue does lie with Stereophile as Artie used up space in the magazine outlining your reviewing policies and then it was decided to chart a course contrary to those policies, IMHO.I did not give the manufacturer a "free pass" any more than Stereophile did. If anything, I was unfairly hard on the manufacturer for implying that not supplying a second sample of the monoblocks was related to the issues with the first pair when I have no knowledge of this. I also summarized the reliablility issues outlined in the review. I am not sure how you get to "free pass" from that. But I believe that you are reading what you want to rather than what was written.
I'm not sure how you decided to paint this as a religious issue but, being an atheist, my perspective is that this type of rambling just creates more heat than light.
My suggestion to John Marks is that if you find criticism of the excellent magazine that you write for to be so problematic, perhaps you should divorce yourself from Critics Corner.
Edits: 05/08/14Follow Ups:
Stereophile has along history of unleashing its dogs of war at the first whiff of criticism. JM, as AD's 'second', is merely doing what has become 'natural'.
The OP was, at best, a mid level complaint, a 'bitch', from a poster who may have a long term bone to pick with the audiophile magazine of record. Was his post vicious and an attempt at character assassination? Hardly. So, JM take your fangs out of the OPs neck: you over reacted. Your over reactions implies more about your character than that of the OP.
With all due respect to your religious beliefs, there is no need to wear them on your posting sleeve. There are actually posters who do not subscribe to your religious beliefs. Show us a little respect.
My Scripture quote had NOTHING to do with "Religious" beliefs.
BTW, with your monicker, you should realize that regardless of one's own opinion, large swaths of the King James Version, along with Shakespeare, are the bedrock of Cultural Literacy for English speakers. You don't have to be an actor to be moved by Shakespeare.
In that passage, Jesus was in totally human common-sense terms wryly commenting about people who have already made up their minds and so nothing you can do will shut them up.
John the Baptist lived in the desert and ate locusts and honey, so, to the haters, he was deranged.
Jesus reclined at table with his friends and ate bread and drank wine and we can presume enjoyed roast lamb every now and then, and so to the haters, He was a glutton. (Don't choke on the capital "H.")
In the same way, when Stereophile reviews something from Audio Research, the crowd of children yells in unison "Payola! Friendship! Cronyism! Old Goy Network!" etc.
But when we have a problem totally not of our own creation with a company whose business plan seems to be to not have amps on hand, the children shout "Apples and Oranges! You bent your own rules! Demon! Glutton! Trans Fats! etc.
The notion that a stereo amp and mono amps from the same company are apples and oranges is rather amusing.
Haters just gotta hate, I guess. Even if it involves grasping at straws while assuming the Yoga pose "The Ostrich."
JM
Come , now, JM, at least take ownership for your belief system, rather than play an intellectual shell game citing "cultural literacy". Your scriptural exegesis speaks for itself: gratuitous and foisted on readers.
When confronted by children chanting in unison two such incompatible statements in rapid succession.
I also quote the Buddha, and totally without a shred of irony. His last words, in fact.
Just as I often quote Oscar Wilde's last words.
JM
What I fear is that you believe that people might be quoting YOU at present or in the near future.
JM, You can rest on your laurels as a prime example of the self satisfied, guy, who is to be feared because he thinks so highly of himself and his worldliness that he is incapable engaging a pov that is in conflict with his own.
ja
just isn't worth engaging with, especially when it is driven by rancor held by people who don't read the magazine and therefore have no stake to claim.
Neither JA nor AD ever claimed that the stereo amp was the functional equivalent of the mono amps. Nobody invited the reader to draw conclusions about anything other than the stereo amp.
Except the naysayers and haters act like we pulled off The Great Train Robbery.
JM
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