AW: I just spent a few hours........

[Eric]

Haible Juergen wrote:
> I still can't really believe that I understood Eric's message right.
> It *looks* like he was scanning the archives of a different mailing list
> (AH),
> found some wrong statements about a certain topic (not that hard to find
> errors on AH), and then presented them here on DIY in, well, a certain way.
> Not even knowing if the original author whose name he quotes is here on
> synth diy.

As I said, it is a real annoyance to me when people
with (apparently) little or no experience of tube
electronics makes claims that tubes are unstable,
impractical, etc. etc.....

And it's worse when these guys talk/write in a way
that makes the less informed think they are experts.
I admit, these were AH messages, and the response
belongs on AH. Since I think the readers of DIY
are better informed than AH, I felt I should say
something here instead of AH. (Also, these messages
on AH were 2 years old or more. Let that caveat stand.)

I don't read AH--too much waste of time.....perhaps I should....
swallow the bullet and watch for this kind of idle and
damaging talk.

For the last 10 years I've fought this kind of
uninformed babble, both as a GLASS AUDIO writer and
as an employee of Svetlana.

It is getting old--yet people
continue to do it in their ignorance.

To take a closer example: How would
you feel if there was a regular on synth-diy who
ranted at length about how analog technology is
dead, dead, dead, and only a damn fool or a
lunatic would build an analog synth? I have met
such people, they are easy to find
here in Silicon Valley...would you tolerate a
person who made a pest of himself on here every day,
and refused to back off?

A few months ago, on the newsgroup rec.audio.tubes,
some guy did exactly that to the regular
readers: he made endless remarks about how tubes are
dead and no one can hear any difference between tube
and solid-state amps. He was VERY aggressive and
attacked many people on a personal basis. Eventually
her went away--but only after causing a real storm.

My apologies if anyone was offended by the previous
message. Think of analog synths (or tubes) as fragile flowers,
you have to protect them from the beetles sometimes. :)