And so it came to pass, on 26-07-96 03:00,
   that Greg Cobb spake unto John Allen:
 ->>         High End Audio and Car Audio have no more in common than
 ->> the word "audio".
 GC> You are VERY narrow-minded.
Amen.
 ->>  There are different goals, different equipment, different
 ->> environment, and VERY different people with very different
 ->> attituides and very different regard for other people. They cannot
 ->> reside in the same place peacefully.
 GC> There are different applications, equipment, environment, and
 GC> goals.  But there are other things in common with those of us who
 GC> like a clean system.  Your stereotyping is outrageous. Not everyone
 GC> wants to annoy those in the car next to them.  Not everyone wants a
 GC> system that'll do 140 db plus.  Not everyone with a car stereo has
 GC> an attitude.  And your statement on the last line above is
 GC> absolutely hilarious.  I had an engineer tell me today that my car
 GC> stereo was exceptionally clean.
If all car audio buffs are a$$hole bassheads with no greater purpose in life 
than to crumble buildings that they drive by, then I suppose High End Audio 
buffs are arrogant blue-nose tweaks who spend their lives trying to find 
exactly the right shade of green marker to paint their CDs and determine the 
optimum strand diameter and oxygen content per millimeter of speaker cable 
for proper imaging (and they know when it's imaged properly because if it 
ain't, the cellos in the orchestra sound a half-inch out of place!)
Frankly, I find the pursuit of such "excellence" (when such a thing is 
subjective and the proverbial "weakest link" is probably the tweaker's ears 
anyway) just as obscene as the pursuit of bass for bass's sake.  Too many 
extremes.
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Q: Why don't blind people skydive?
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