5121cdd@houxm.UUCP (C.DORY) (08/23/84)
<gobble, gobble, ...> Why are we still picking on Phil Rastocny?! This is not a forum for public ridicule and deformation of character -- why the h*&l can't we talk about audio, constructively? Craig Dory -- AT&T Bell Laboratories
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (08/23/84)
[!] I believe only three authors besides yourself have mentioned Phil lately. I'm reasonably sure he understood that I meant no disrespect when I attributed authorship of all T$S reviews to him recently. Phil is well known on the net. He has incredibly acute hearing, an unusually fine listening environment, a budget that can afford really good stuff, and the sense and sensibility to make extremely fine discriminations. He is believable even when he says incredible things. He is also able to describe what he hears, clearly, if in terms not always comfortable to old audio farts like yours truly. By the way, while on the subject of incredible hearing, I think really superior hearing may often be more of a curse than a benefit. Once, when I was a teenager I got a stopped up ear from swimming. An ...ear doctor cleaned out both my ears and did I suffer for about two days! I could hear a mosquito walk across velvet at twenty paces. Cars sounded like thrashing machines. Thumb rubbed lightly against forefinger at arms length sounded like two sheets of sandpaper rubbed together. Painful! An acquaintance of mine is driven screaming out of stores when they turn on their burglar alarm supersonics before closing. Anyway, Phil represents to me, and I am sure many net others, the highest possible standards of listenership. I also believe that net.audio is prospering lately as judged by the number of news items. -Dick Grantges hound!rfg
rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (08/25/84)
>Why are we still picking on Phil Rastocny?! This is not a forum for >public ridicule and deformation of character... Why are you so sure that someone is "picking on" Phil, let alone labeling it "public ridicule" and I'll assume you meant "defamation of character". Now, picking on the CJ box is quite another matter. Look, Phil has been following this group long enough, and has traded enough punches, that I think he at least knows where the groups stands. I'm sure that he knows damn well that offering a creme-de-la-creme goldenears item for sale here is like pouring blood into a pool of sharks...but all he wants to do is sell the thing, and he can probably do that with or without the sarcasm (which I enjoyed, by the way). If Phil is truly offended, I think he can speak up for himself. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.