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In Reply to: I'd like to see EVERY reviewer do part of what Art did. posted by Rick W on February 25, 2007 at 09:04:15:
Dear Rick,I am not accusing you of bad faith, but, can't you see the Catch-22 or "gotcha" potential in this? "We piped and you would not dance, we wailed and you would not mourn!"
I have returned every bit of all cables with three exceptions. Apogee Digital sent me some raw experimental cable, I paid to have it terminated, they told me to keep it. DH Labs told me to keep some under-$100 retail digital as a reference, and Stereovox told me to keep some under-$50 digital cable as a reference. I returned even the cheapest Nordost stuff-ask Joe Reynolds. All the CPCC power stuff went back. What I have for speaker cables and interconnects is stuff I bought, in some cases at retail.
Preparatory to moving and downsizing radically, I sold or gave away a lot of stereo equipment that had been in boxes forever, I was not going to listen to it again, why pay to store it? The only thing I stored was a Nak 680ZX cassette deck, too cool to sell for $25 or put out with the recycling.
So now, the criticism is not that I can build a suspension bridge with loaner cables, or that I can outfit the Playboy Mansion with stuff on "permaloan" (I am told one European mfr was told my a writer that they should not expect their spiffy new subwoofers back anytime soon), the criticism would be that John Marks does not have a longterm reference system, and therefore his judgments are inherently suspect.
Gotcha!
Again, I am not implying you would act this way, but... .
Cordially,
JM
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Follow Ups
- Dear Rick - John Marks 08:17:29 02/26/07 (8)
- Re: Dear Rick - bjh 10:17:39 02/26/07 (0)
- John, I think you've missed the point. - Rick W 10:17:02 02/26/07 (6)
- Very good points Rick. - Ozzie 20:27:48 02/26/07 (0)
- I actually cleared the decks - John Marks 17:24:00 02/26/07 (4)
- I've got to ask you John... - Ozzie 20:30:43 02/26/07 (2)
- OK - John Marks 08:01:58 02/27/07 (1)
- 15 foot pair of Stereovox .... - Sommovigo 19:39:10 02/27/07 (0)
- John, you may be too sane (and artistically inclined) for hifi. - Rick W 18:40:19 02/26/07 (0)
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