<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 26, 2006, at 1:29 PM, elmacaco wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The problem is you have a lot of hardcore analog lovers on the list,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think the problem is that the AH list is comprised of people who have absolutely no idea what it takes to design, manufacture, and market a musical instrument in the modern age. I would like to see any one of those experts attempt to market, oh, anything. Indeed, besides myself, there are maybe one or two others who have ever worked in product development for a major manufacturer, and a dozen or less who work for (or are) minor manufacturers -- and none of us are the ones complaining about the new Moog -- the complaints are all from the armchair engineers. Hell, the list doesn't even have more than a half dozen (if that many) professional musicians on it (that is, people actually who make their living from the playing or making of music). It's certainly not a place to go when looking for professional advice, unless you need advice as to which TR-808 serial numbers are better. It is a clubhouse for poorly informed, historically unaware, yet strangely self-satisfied dilettante comic book store guys with collecting fetishes and really bad taste in music.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Other than that, AH is super great!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>