Steve Hoffman's Ongaku

[Jud]

11 minutes ago, Brinkman Ship said:

 

-First, it still does not offend anyone that a multi millionaire receives over a half a million dollars of Audio Note, Grado, and PS Audio gear in exchange for shilling it on his forum, yet peddles for donations to run the website?

 

But if he sold the stuff to get money (wonder who would buy it anywhere near the retail price?), what would he listen with? ? 

 

I don't waste my time paying enough attention to such goings-on to be offended.  This is hardly the most important example in the world of people taking advantage of others, and unfortunately you can't just tell them to snap out of it.

 

Meanwhile, my own experience with SH is limited to the purchase of a couple of CDs on which he's generally acknowledged to've done a good job of production, one being Pet Sounds, the other a Buddy Holly disc I found in a used record and CD store for $3.

[Jud]

2 hours ago, Brinkman Ship said:

well, that is funny, because if a lowly reviewer is suspected of even a whiff of pay for play, or impropriety, the outrage is is so thick you could cut it with a knife..said reviewer is raked over the coals and savaged.

 

So clearly outrage here is very selective.

 

Well, it isn't that I'm selectively outraged at the reviewer, and not at SH.  It's that I don't care at all about any of it.  ?  I don't read equipment reviews, I don't read SH's forum(s).

 

However, I have no argument with anyone who *does* wish to be outraged.  ? 

[Jud]

10 minutes ago, mansr said:

Such behaviour should have you raged all the way out.

 

In today's world I have to meter outrage.  Mistreatment of children I reserve for spending time and emotion on, and there are other things I am concerned about as well; stuff to do with hobbies (unless we are talking about hunting endangered species), not so much.