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In Reply to: RE: "Myopic" indeed would be you. Though blind or thick might posted by tinear on April 18, 2014 at 16:32:00
I strongly disagree with your view about high-end audio."an inmate who isn't aware of a major topic discussed by dozens of his fellows who rue the slacking of the industry"
Gosh! Dozens have your same Henny Penny, doom & gloom, whingey, winey, pessimistic outlook? Again, Gosh!
World-wide audio sales are doing very well. Didn't you know?
It has never been easier to buy audio equipment from all over the world.
You can wallow in your own self-serving misery but your level of pessimism is commensurate with your age.
"Australia is too far away to sense if it's in another place."
Really? Oh, I forgot, Americans are so well travelled and know everything about every subject everywhere in the world. No non-American has ever accused an American of being myopic or xenophobic, have they? :o)
You are a funny little old codger. Enjoy what life you have left.
Life is good, for me at least.
Long live high-end audio!
Smile
Sox
Follow Ups:
that poor ol' Tinear has lost his toy jones?
IF we're lucky, he'll soon loose his troll jones as well!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
I thought that was the subject of your complaint: he loosed his 'troll' jones. Perhaps, the word you should have typed was lose. What you typed instead has precisely the opposite meaning. Grammar is important.
The lack of respect demonstrated in this and many other threads in this forum is disappointing. If you disagree with tinear's points, they can be respectfully refuted. So, he made an observation and expressed his opinion. Where's the harm in that? I disagree with his opinion, but I see no reason to lay the 'troll' insult upon him. He made a reasoned argument which has some good points. If you wish to change his opinion, counter with a reasoned argument of your own.
I am ashamed.I (and many others) have countered Tinear's repetitious posts often enough to seemingly little, if no avail.
At some point the repetition must (or at least should) qualify as some form of trolling, no?
Maybe not to you, but it certainly does to me.
At that point I will respond as I see fit.Thank you.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
Edits: 04/19/14
...as I visit the general forum less than most. In recent months, I've not visited any of the asylum forums as much as in past years. Life has been hectic lately.
I must also confess less than admirable behavior on the planar asylum in years past. A certain individual 'pushed my buttons' (pseudo-science really gets under my skin) and I responded in kind, so I suppose my comment was more than a bit hypocritical. I felt every bit as justified as you do in this case.
I'm sorry that I get so hung up on grammar, but I was raised by a grammar Nazi (from whom Alzheimer's has completely eradicated the ability to communicate). I think I drive most of the people I know a bit crazy with my insistence on precision with language, but living in a hellhole of the south, my ears are inundated with gross abuses of English. In this case, I just found it amusing that the spelling actually inverted the intended statement.
Yes, if repeated logical rebuttals fail to adjust an errant viewpoint, frustration is to be expected. Each of us is 'programmed' by a particular set of memes, some of which are difficult to shed. That feeling of being right infects us all. As with most things, this is a complicated topic which is challenging to see clearly. I don't mean to suggest that my opinion is any less tenuous than his, but I see the situation through different lenses. In my view, the high end is healthier than ever.
they dedicate much of it to following me around, snipping at every post. Occasionally, I give them a boot, but it can be boring.
The forth last sentence in tin's post you linked explains it all;
"Guess I've gotten old."
It seems inmate, tinear, is on the downward spiral of perpetual pessimism.
I'm not buying it.
I am very much a 'here & now' kind of guy. The glass is always half full etc, etc.
Today it is very easy to buy great sounding audio equipment for little more than pocket change. (depending on the size of one's pockets)
Audio is doing fine IMHO.
I am very aware of times past. I collect antiques and have many pieces from the seventeen hundreds. Whilst I appreciate the fine craftsmanship of the era I have no desire whatsoever to live in the seventeen hundreds. Give me climate control & automated everything any day! d:o)
I enjoy my audio equipment. Technology allows us to run computer based audio into five different areas of the house. Teenagers, twenty-somethings, mum plus dad can all happily listen to their own musical tastes simultaneously or independently. (Try doing that in the 50s & 60s)
It is has just gone 5pm, Saturday, here in Oz. As it happens we have about 10 young people in the house, split into two groups and they are both listening to their own music. Us oldies will be cranking up the main rig shortly and no doubt, as usually happens, the kids will eventually merge, for a short time at least, into where we are listing to our "oldies" music!
Life's good, as in the audio industry.
My dear Mr Tap, you and yours enjoy the weekend and beyond.
Cheers!
Smile
Sox
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