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THE most ridiculous thing you have ever read on this forum??

Posted by JoshT (A) on February 9, 2007 at 10:00:46

In Reply to: Completely useless feature posted by Kiepu on February 8, 2007 at 22:51:15:

According to your profile, you've been registered since March 2001, and this is the MOST ridiculous thing you've read on this formum in five years and eleven months? Wow! You have read selectively.

Ok, just busting you a bit in all good humor - no offense.

But here is my take on this:

Since 1986 when I bought my first CD player, I've used the reverse time function maybe half a dozen times, maybe a dozen, not more. Clearly it's not an indispensible feature for me, but it is helpful to have occasionally for anyone (e.g., let's say you sort of have to pee, but not too urgently, and you're listening to a CD for the first time, and want to know if that song is almost over, in which case you'll hold it, or is a 20 minute jam session, in which case you'll have an accident, or at least get uncomfortable, and the CD case is on the other side of the room?). And for folks who do recording the feature probably is very important. And anyway, why would it be so hard for any manufacturer to include? One thing that pisses me off about this hobby is the widely believed truism that high end audio equipment need not include any convenient features and has license to be as quirky as the manufactures want. I just think that's rubbish. When I complained recently about a bizzare quirk inherent in one of my pieces of equipment, my dealer, who I like for the most part, said that people like me "may not be well suited to own *truly* highend gear"! Now THAT was the most ridiculous thing I had heard in . . . well at least in a few days!

I'm not busting on this player, which I am sure sounds fantastic and generates very high customer satisfaction. But I think Lumy does us all a service when he points out (1) features that are absent on popular players, (2) how easy it would be to include them and (3) how helpful it would be if the mainstream audio media would simply bother to include such coverage in their reviews. Then someone like you, and maybe me, can buy the player anyway and someone like Lumy can avoid it. I don't understand why he's being attacked for that.

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