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Re: The End of the Affair?

>Now, I'm the 'bad guy' for pointing out that cables sometimes do not
>get returned, even if the company that made them still considers them
>of some value.

No-one has said that you're the bad guy for saying this, John. I am
pointing out that the fact that you have now _twice_ publicly
impugned Stereophile's integrity on this forum for cables that were
loaned to a reviewer when he was at TAS, is misleading and defamatory.
I phoned you last year year to investigate this story the first time
you raised it, only for you to wave me off. And now I have offered you
a way of straightening the books, yet you appear to be waving me off
_again_.

>I know that Bob wanted something for his cables, he told me himself.

As I said, if you tell me what the dealer cost was in 1991, I will
donate that sum to charity. That way you can start sleeping at night
for the first time in, what, 14 years. If you refuse to tell me, then
I will still pay the charity -- the Southern Poverty Law Center, if
you need to know -- $200 and assume the matter is closed.

>What about Nordost? Did they really want something for their (loaner)
>cables as well?

I am told by a manufacturer that the reimbursement to Nordost was in
five figures. I have no idea if that is true or not.

>I don't know, but I will accept JV's explanation of what happened,
>just as I will accept JS's explanation as well.

Jonathan Valin has not offered any explanation, neither here or
anywhere else, to the best of my knowledge. His sole comment on the
subject to me in person was to call me a "fucker" in public at the
recent CES, apparently for knowing about the matter.

> why was JV's explanation not accepted here in the first place? Why
> one, and not the other?

It certainly looks to me as if Tom Martin's explanation has been accepted.

> My original input here was NOT to impune anyone, but create a more
> level playing field...

Yet impugne you did John, with gusto. You owe me a beer, I think.

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile

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