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madisonears

In Reply to: RE: "What is wrong with its successor?" posted by Chris from Lafayette on October 28, 2016 at 19:17:35

You and dutchman have nothing good to write about a site that focuses on and promotes a format that is important to all audiophiles and should be important to all music lovers. I agree that the new site is almost completely one-way, but you can still like or not like individual issues, and those customer ratings might be important to others. Sometimes the reviews are a bit amateurish (Does anyone proofread their stuff before publishing it? Have they ever taken an English class?), and I don't always come away with a firm impression of whether the disc is really good or not. But there is no other site that concentrates all of its resources on hi-rez. Maybe you guys would like to start one instead of bitching here.

Additionally, how much does it cost to visit the site? Oh, that's right: it's FREE, and does not feature annoying ads or force one to pay a premium for "member access." Not much of that left on the web, and you guys complain.

Tom E

berate is 8 and benign is 9

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RE: What is wrong with you guys? - flyingdutchman 16:35:34 10/31/16 (2)
I complain because of the dictator over there. Nothing more, nothing less. He stalks other sites and emails people over slights people write about him.
- Please leave your personal vendettas at the door - madisonears 17:58:30 10/31/16 (1)
  You are the one who headlined his post with "EVERYTHING [sic]."
  
  Maybe you shouldn't trash an entire valuable resource because you have a hard-on for someone there. This is obviously personal. If it's his site, I guess he has every right to run it however he thinks is best, whether that's being a dictator (no one else has ever mentioned that, yet you've used the term more than once) or just a plain dick. Try to see past it.
  
  How many reviews have you contributed here? Guess I missed them all.
  
  Regards,
  Tom E
  berate is 8 and benign is 9
  - RE: Please leave your personal vendettas at the door - flyingdutchman 19:34:51 10/31/16 (0)
    I already know you're in the bag for him over there. You've said as much. So get over yourself and no I won't quit making comments about the guy. He's never willing to listen to those frequenting his site and threatened more than just me.
RE: What is wrong with you guys? - Fitzcaraldo215 06:49:00 10/31/16 (0)
Quite right and well said. We are fortunate to have the site and the information it contains, like it or not. I know of no better site, magazine or guide anywhere devoted to music and recordings.

My only disagreement with you is that I find the classical reviews generally extremely well done, knowledgeable and quite reliable. They have never led me astray in building my own collection.
Really, I don't disagree with most of your points - Chris from Lafayette 00:18:21 10/31/16 (2)
And maybe I was over the top in my sarcasm. I still think that this site here (i.e., AA) could be just as good - certainly for discussion of hi-rez recordings, although the forum categories here sometimes dissipate various discussions on this topic to various different sub-sites here, so that there's no one central source for discussion of hi-rez issues. For instance, there has recently been a lot of discussion of hi-rez downloads over on the music forum here (ever since jdaniel gave up vinyl for hi-rez downloads). And unless something changed over at hraudio.net (and, really, I hardly check that site anymore, so some changes which I'm not aware of COULD have occurred), they still don't allow discussion or coverage of hi-rez downloads there, and that's still a BIG section of hi-rez these days and one which I expect to become increasingly important - unless internet streaming takes over completely! ;-)
- Little doubt it was over the top - madisonears 18:33:18 10/31/16 (1)
  If you want discussion here, start posting more meaningful discussion. I get tired of having to wade through some threads because of your and others' pointless chatter. I do really appreciate the occasional nugget or insight, and I believe you have a lot of that to contribute. Frequently the Music forum seems a little too "clubby" to be a site for comfortable exchange of information.
  
  Regards,
  Tom E
  berate is 8 and benign is 9
  - C'mon, Tom - you need to get out of your sourpuss mode [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 20:40:45 10/31/16 (0)

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