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Marvey

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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2015, 04:43:53 PM »


Marv,

how were you NOT tarred and feathered for wearing a pyrate shirt to a HF meet?
hell, i don't post anything for months on HF and they take over my account (email and passw change) with no notice....
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Ravi is better looking than I imagined!
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I dunno. I tend to wear a lot of crappy T-shirts and my wife packed it for me (she is totally innocent and doesn't know anything about Changstar, HF, etc.). Honestly, I didn't even realize what I was wearing. If I did, I probably would not have worn it. (It was probably a subconscious thing.)

After the meet, a few people confided with me that some people thought Changstar was making the meet into a dangerous environment or something like that, as if I was going to walk up to Jude from behind and deck him, turn the meet into a West Side Story, or something ridiculous like that. That's just stupid talk and reflects the paranoia of people who actually think that. Changstar folks had been organizing Head-Fi meets in SoCal (yes Head-Fi meets) since 2011, with the last one in February of 2014.

The fact is, Jude and I should be good friends (albeit with different approaches to the hobby); but we are not. And it's not for my lack of trying. I've said time and time again that I would be willing to bury the hatchet because this CS vs. HF thing is stupid. Things were pretty cool / cold / stable, but the last straw with me was when he publicly started shitting on me and making straw man arguments about my views on measurements at the Ann Arbor meet (and also some other stuff which I cannot say).
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2015, 04:49:43 PM »

Marc, AMB 3 versus the reDACted?

Hard to say. Need own amps to be sure. I definitely think the Gamma 3 is a worthwhile build. Not easy with the fine pitch surface mount. Ti is very much an engineer, not a magic stones person. Interesting stuff on keeping the power clean.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2015, 05:17:10 PM »

hell, i don't post anything for months on HF and they take over my account (email and passw change)

It's now my understanding that has happened with other people as well, with no reason, explanation, etc. I don't exactly remember you going out and saying anything outright anti-HF or anti-Jude. I apologize because I do feel somewhat responsible for these "hidden bans" given the recent heated feelings between CS and HF, so anything... anything can be taken the wrong way, especially given the level of paranoid on that side.

Just to be clear, and I think all of you guys know this, I don't want sycophants or minions. I want you guys to think for yourselves. So please, don't get into trouble unnecessarily or on the account of me.


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And in case people are thinking Light Harmonic is paying me $10,000 per year. They are not. LH gets the ad banner for helping us find a free place and paying for the tables and chairs for the last meet. That's it. I've thought about taking serious money from MoTs, but have always refused. Taking money kills the fun.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2015, 05:30:46 PM »

And in case people are thinking Light Harmonic is paying me $10,000 per year. They are not. LH gets the ad banner for helping us find a free place and paying for the tables and chairs for the last meet. That's it. I've thought about taking serious money from MoTs, but have always refused. Taking money kills the fun.

:insertbeatingdeadhorseemoticonhere: that's been discussed already. Subscribers money isn't dirty money.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2015, 05:34:05 PM »

Marv,
Please Feel no responsibility for the HF mods being AHoles.
Am certain no member would claim you have any fault in this area.

I have seen no provocation on HF related to CS, basically they are banning HF accounts for ANYTHING they find on the inter webs.

Pyrates handle our business and conflicting opinions in adult ways, unlike the juvenile methods (and members) HF employs.
In many ways feel I have graduated to CS, happy to leave elementary school behind.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2015, 06:01:06 PM »


Marv,

how were you NOT tarred and feathered for wearing a pyrate shirt to a HF meet?
hell, i don't post anything for months on HF and they take over my account (email and passw change) with no notice....
 )(

Ravi is better looking than I imagined!
 :)p13

When Marv first met me, I was still climbing/lifting all the time and had a lot higher hair density, haha.

@zero How was the ui on the questyle dap?

Last time it was laggy and missed button presses galore. The ui was a bit of a mess too

UI was shit. Sounded good, but I am not purchasing it based off how bad the user experience is. Sometimes scrolling would reset, button presses would miss, things were laggy, and the layout of the UI was nearly incomprehensible.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2015, 06:15:11 PM »

Shit that was my biggest problem with it too. $600 headache damn it I really wanted to buy this too
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2015, 06:33:19 PM »

Leaving/getting banned at Head-fi isn't really a bad thing. It's like the Reddit of audiophile anyway.

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Jude is a arrogant little condescending d****ebag who runs Head-Fi.org a "audiophile" and high-end audio gear review/community website.

He makes his money through sponsor advertisments on his websites from very well-known big and respected companies like Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic along with many others.

NOTHING wrong with this per say. But here's the problem...

The reviews are extremely biased, one-sided, full of excessive hype and the community is extremely censored.

You will get banned from this forum even if what you say about a sponsor is 100% completely true and you prove it.

source: http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Head-Fiorg/internet/Head-Fiorg-Jude-Head-fi-is-a-EXTREMELY-Biased-Community-That-Over-Hypes-High-End-Audio-Ge-1045504


more ban story:
http://www.totallydubbed.net/being-banned-at-head-fi/
http://bannedfromheadfi.blogspot.com/
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #28 on: July 20, 2015, 07:41:04 PM »

Here are some photos that CEETEE took. That's zdfx and me; and some closeups of the EC The Studio.

LOL. The buddy pic has been viewed twice as many times as the the Studio glamour shots.

Cynical explanation: To be fair, I can't be alone in having no true aspirations to the Studio, but a stable curiosity in the widely-reported beauty of Ravi...

Uplifting explanation: Evidence that interpersonal interaction is more popular than the whoring of gear.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #29 on: July 20, 2015, 07:57:57 PM »

Hilton Hotel ? One may prefer Sofitel

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