This is not really goodbye. Sorry folks, my apologies to the more sensible ones among you like corrsty but I can't help but vent my little sadistic bent.
I will visit this forum once in a while to amuse myself reading little ecstatic outbursts like this one from ra Like I said I have no intentions of converting anyone. It's not worth it especailly since this brouhah on tubes vs SS has been relegated to the dustobins of hsitory and this discussion and the discussants like this little ra do not and will never amount to any consequence to impoede the progress of hi-fi. What a sigh of relief The world of Hi fi will go on much like the world of automobiles. Show me a car enthusiast that says a 1932 Duesenberg SJ is superiror to a 2001 BMW 7 series and I'll refer him to the likes of litle ra. So enjoy yourself.
Hey lexmil, there really was a perty li’l ol’ nugget in me shoes.
“little ra”? Oooh….touchy! Seems like I just dabbed slightly deeper than usual in yer oh so sensitive li’l psyche eh? Did I just hit a nerve? Tsk tsk. I didn’t pop it did I?
Regressed to name calling eh? What a pity then. Well, I hope for your own sake the forum moderators wouldn’t find that less than amusing. Hell, it sure cracked me up again (LOL!)!
IMHO, you being the
queer “lone voice” in this thread can be attributed to your queer “been-there-done-that” attitude, which really doesn’t cut it and alienates a lot of forum users here, SS and tube users alike.
The fact is, without your posts on the SS-vs-Tubes issue there would certainly be no “brouhaha” to begin with. What set your
queer posts apart from the rest was the prejudiced and tainted image you wanted to convey of tube and turntable users, and your
queer position on why it’s totally inept for someone to venture into the analog format and valve amplification.
Then we had to bear witness to a slew of holier-than-thou ranting about your degree, about your father’s ol’ gear, your friend’s gear, a friend of your friends’ gear, and then a friend of a friend who’s actually in the States who has another friend and… WHO CARES!!! To think that you gained bragging rights because of your friend’s friend’s gear is truly
queer and pathetic.
Notwithstanding your
queer claim of going thru a plethora of rare and expensive audio equipment, you still say that you adore your capable Wharfdales and Onkyos and pick these over those exotics… then so be it. No one here is stopping you from knocking yourself out with it. Just no gear bashing. Frankly, those ol’ gems should really be left in better hands anyway.
However, one couldn’t help but liken what you wrote here to that of driving a 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso or a 288 GTO then suddenly dumping ‘em for the reason you’d rather lug around your almost new and stock Kia Pride then as if say: “Hey, I can still just about do a 70 at Star in this li’l bugger too… giddy-up!!!” Pretty “
queer” isn’t it? Hmmm…“
queer”…that word just keeps coming up. It most certainly fits the mbill here.
A ‘32 Duesenberg SJ Boat-tail Speedster with a race-spec 400bhp supercharged 6.8L 8cyl in-line engine against a Bimmer 7er you say? Which model in particular? The entry 735i or the Alpina B12 6.0 with a 430bhp normally aspirated 6L V12? While the latter will set you off at around a hundred grand of green dough, the Speedster, given that only a handful was actually made and even fewer currently exist, commands a staggering value which would make your li’l head spin. But superior in what way may I ask? Specifics please. Or might this be just another one of your vague and impetuous ramblings?
At any rate, if again any of your friend’s friend's friend owns an immaculate sample of any of these two beauties, then I warmly invite you and your friend’s friend's friend to our monthly club run. Incidentally, we have one upcoming at BRC again. Finally prove you’re for real and ain’t
queer lexmil. I assure you, we’ll have a blast with my sister’s-only-brother’s turbocharged E36 3er and your wonderful Alpina 7er!
Then after all that “fun”, you might let me sample your audio gear so we could finally throw all these “brouhaha” out your window. You game?
Cheers!!!
-Racio
(or was that “little ra”)
P.S. Corrs, welcome back to Manila! Dude, I’ll be gone for today and the whole weekend so I can’t meet up again with you and demo those “ear candies” ‘till next week. I would love to audition the 300B preamps and SETs you brought back from… you know where! Hey, good luck on your new venture!