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- From: jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: How 'bout a new group for the rest of us?
- Message-ID: <24172@alice.att.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 16:14:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24172
- References: <1992Nov12.003105.69226@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Nov12.064736.21410@news.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
- Organization: NJ State Home for Bewildered Terminals
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- In article <1992Nov12.064736.21410@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.003105.69226@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ptb2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER TALAN BERGEN) writes:
- >>
- >>I could not agree with you more, I am f**cking sick and tired of listening to
- >>people ask questions whether they should a stereo for $10,000 or $13,000. I
- >>am personally a little offended that someone would spend that much money on a
- >>stereo when there are so many bigger problems today. We definitely need a
- >>college audio board.
- >
- >What is your reasoning here? You're offended that people would spend that
- >much money on a stereo when there are "bigger problems" today? Huh? People
- >spend money on all sorts of things...cars, big homes, college educations,
- >clothing, etc. You'll find very few people in this world who are willing
- >to forsake pleasures until all the world's problems are solved.
-
- While I disagree with Peter's coupling stereo and all the world's
- problems, I must agree that a new group, where it was UNDERSTOOD
- that low-fi and mid-fi were appropriate discussions, and where
- it was also understood that luddite and/or elitist rampages,
- insult, denegration, and such were unwelcome, would be most
- appropriate.
-
- Were I to want to build up a mid-fi system, I know what this group
- would do. It would start denegrating, insulting, and demeaning
- each any every proposed component as well as the posters who
- suggested them.
-
- Then, we could leave this newsgroup to the people who feel
- a need for luddism or pseudo-science, and those (perhaps
- like me) who feel some need to uphold trvth in these
- troubled times.
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