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In Reply to: Why So Much Bashing? posted by DOUBTINGTHOMAS29 on September 11, 2006 at 02:46:58:
There are optimists and pessimists; they see the world in a different way. There are technically challenged people who do not see but speak.
I give you an example. I am new to vinyl (2 yers experience). On recommendation of this board I bought a TT, the one most praised. I found:
wiggly platter,
rattling arm bearing (cheap cap holding the pivot needle)
no precise antiscate,
unnecessary connector in arm wire,
center clamp that’s too big and scratching against the Shure cart on end track,
hot running, oil spiting motor (to powerful and vibrating for my taste),
crappy arm holder………and a brochure advertising the upgrade path.
Most of my findings were posted here later by other inmates so it is not just my pessimism. The TT is still the one most praised in its prize range!
The question is: why so much praising?
Marek
Follow Ups:
Is the link below the motivation for your bashing?
As I said, I am new to vinyl, everything better than the one before is the best I’ve ever heard.
I guess I was too enthusiastic in that post after a temporary attack of optimism. Since then I’ve replaced MDF plinth with wood/acrylic/metal table, I got a platter with a better bearing and clamping, tried different arms, bought different motor and did other small changes.
I am still working on it; you can see pictures in my gallery.
Marek
I'm sorry to hear of your bad experience. You have every right to post your findings. Then let those others with experience post theirs, which will establish the veracity of your findings or expel them as a single and out of the ordinary event. Sometimes we get a faulty item. Sometimes we are at fault. The board can be extroidinarily helpful in determining who/what is at fault. And if the table is indeed a piece of junk, it's sales will eventually fall.
Some items are over hyped. IE, I think the Honda Goldwing (motorcycle)falls into this catagory. I've ridden them and was not impressed. However there are legions of riders who disagree with me. I might say that i do not like the Goldwing for the following reasons. But why say its a piece of junk or some other inflamatory remark? Why not just make my statements and let others decide for themselves?
BTW, Like you, I don't understand the praise for the Goldwing either? Maybe both of us have different tastes than the majority. Just a thought.
I only use my gun whenever kindness fails
Some sort of Asylum grief / trauma counseling mechanism were for those really sensitive types who are offended to the degree where their skivvies are in a major bundle can receive the critical emotional supportThere may well be some sort of yet to be discovered / uncovered undiagnosed Audiophile specific PTSD Variant, PMCGSOTVATSD (Post my component got slammed on the Vinyl Asylum Traumatic Stress disorder) where the hapless victim eventually develops sleeping difficulties, flashbacks, the inability to perceive or appreciate subtle nuance issues or even inability to pop a Chubby ? ;-)
BTW -While a Honda Goldwing IMHO seems to me to be more of a car than a Motorcycle, I have to admit that on more than one occaison halfway
across Nebraska with a terminal case of Monkey Butt I'll be downright jealous of Wing Riders.
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