For the record, I truly did appreciate Tor's contributions, especially the write-ups on his HE-500 mods. For reasons not entirely known to me, Tor had a meltdown a few months ago, deleted all content related to his HE-500 mods, and subsequently disappeared. His last post before he disappeared was on October 22, 2014.
I suspect maybe the "belligerent one" gave him too hard of time with his popping up in every other headphone thread and every four lines in the shoutbox proclaiming his tweaked HE-500 as the "best evar".*
No harm, no foul. This place isn't for everyone and maybe he discovered that he didn't fit it. There's no problem with people saying they like something. But I think we know that if anyone makes claims of something being "the best evar", they better be able to qualify such claims in an articulate manner and also practice good behavior by not proclaiming your gushing love for such every hour on the hour. Those of us who have been around know that we disagree with each other all the time. For example, I happen to like the ECZD. The belligerent one happens to think the ECZD is a piece of shit. He gives me a hard time. We laugh. But we also understand each other's perspectives. That's how it rolls here.
What gets me is that after Tor decided this place wasn't for him, he has the gall to come back and start posting again, this time on February 10, 2015. I find this behavior annoying, especially since he deleted his most informative posts. It came off to me as if he considered himself some sort of high and mighty holder of knowledge - and we must worship, agree with, and not challenge him - otherwise we would have no access to his secret knowledge of his HE-500s mods. LOL, fuck you Tor. If there's one thing that annoys the fuck out of me, it's passive-aggressive bullshit such as this. This is when I lose all patience with someone. (There was some discussion regarding Tor among the admins and mods, and I don't think any them felt a good deal of love for him because of his meltdown.)
I also found Tor's recent injection of his "my tweaked HE-500 is da bettar" schtick in the HE-560 MODIFICATION thread annoying. I probably would not have reacted had he qualified his comments: "I prefer my tweaked HE-500's tonal balance and in my experience, I couldn't duplicate that tonal balance with the HE-560 despite what I tried". But the fact is he didn't. The truth is that I was being intentionally being a dick (mirroring his statement) when I curtly replied "tweaked HE-560 > tweaked HE-500". It was actually a test to see how he would react. Well now we all know.
People don't get banned here for a "myriad of reasons" or for "understanding but not agreeing" or "agreeing and not understanding" or whatever doublespeak. People get banned here for a reason.
*P.S. It turns out it may not have been the belligerent one. OJ just told me that he called Tor a retard. :-)
