Don Capps wrote:
> True, I am new to the list. However, I am a LONG time reader of a number of
> audio mags, both pro and home oriented. I have been reading Stereo Review
> (now Sound & Vision) since the 70's and am VERY familiar with Ken Pohlman's
> work. And I fail to see how Ken's having an opinion that differs from yours,
> however radically, makes him an asshole.
>
There are many people who have opinions that differ from mine yet I still highly
respect them. Take yourself as an example. We often have different opinions.
That doesn't stop me from respecting you. But when a person substitutes their
own ignorant opinion for hard fact, in my book that makes them an asshole.
I didn't like him when he wrote for Digital Audio and really started to hate him
when he began his one man campaign to trash Mini Discs. Come on. Dolby better
than the audio quality of a mini disc?? It just ain't so.
Also, the magazine was originally called Hi Fi Review, then Hi Fi Stereo Review
and finally they dropped the Hi Fi altogether. But If you have been reading
that magazine since the early 70's (you did not specify how early you started)
you would see that the quality of the reviewers and writers that they had back
then make you feel that Kenny must have known someone to get the job.
Anyone his/her states opinions as facts is an asshole in my book. "Don't piss
on my leg and tell me it's raining".
I think that what it comes down to is that there is a lack of people who have
the technical understanding, insight, love of music and writing skills today in
the field of Hi Fi. I was born the same year as broadcast TV and slightly
before stereo. I was about eleven when stereo was introduced.
Back then even though the sound may have actually been poor by today's
standards, people were really into Hi Fi itself. It was more than just a
hobby. It was almost a way of life. There was a passion that people had that
is gone now.
When I got into 8mm movies and then video, I got away from Hi Fi for a while. I
started reading magazines like "Super Eight" and then "Video" and stopped
reading Hi Fidelity and Stereo Review (I was never too crazy about Audio
magazine).
It was the advent of Hi Fi VCRs and home theater that started to bring me back
into Hi Fi. But by that time the scene had changed. Fisher no longer made
systems that a poor kid from Brooklyn like me could only drool over in
catalogs. They were making crap.
Suddenly there was Pioneer. Fisher was started by Fisher and his love for
music. Marantz was started by Marantz and his love for music. H/K, Scott etc.
These were not just the names of companies they were the names of music lovers.
Do you think that there is a guy named Pioneer out there who is a music lover?
I'm not claiming that there is anything wrong with solid state from a specs
point of view. But there is something about those warm glowing tubes. Even the
smell! That's why so many bands still insist on using tube amps.
Again, I do not feel that tube amps are superior to solid state as some people
do. I believe that if properly designed and using quality materials, solid
state offers many advantages over tubes.
Also, my mother warned me to never trust anyone whose name ended with a totally
unnecessary duplicate extra letter <G>.
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