steve hoffman forums, C or D?

I wonder if it's the ex ilxor who went on there and carried on about this being a board full of "not very nice people"

wait where is that blur thread

my favorite hoffman threads now are the album by album/song by song threads, there is good discussion in them, minimal griping about mastering versions, minimal threadcraps, and I always wind up appreciating something new.

the KLF discography thread is outstanding, it should be a damn book

no but seriously on the song by song threads! like lets discuss songs sometimes rather than pressings

Hoffman boards also got a lot more tolerable when I decided to liberally mute posters. There are a fair number of outright completely insane people on there, particularly in the beatles threads (that run up to Now and Then was torture, some utterly obsessed morons posting like a hundred times a day with outsized entitlement enraged when the announcement didn't drop the day they hoped...it was nuts)

A certain banned ilxor has spent about 38 pages of the current Blur thread demanding no one enjoys The Magic Whip

You can't leave it at that tbh.

i must be looking at the wrong blur threads

funny because even the Veikko's Blur forums had someone a bit like that at one stage.

I like the idea of the song-by-song threads but as they're so huge my lamentable tuning-out point is usually when I can predict for miles when the majority of them dislike something that I like. 'Oh, of course there's few kind words for "Fireplace" and "Lightnin' Hopkins"' etc.

Hoffman boards also got a lot more tolerable when I decided to liberally mute posters.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm)

so much for the tolerant left

(it's a pun, i'm making a bad pun)

A certain banned ilxor has spent about 38 pages of the current Blur thread demanding no one enjoys The Magic Whip

You can't leave it at that tbh.

― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:43 bookmarkflaglink

I'm assuming a 90s video game

Me too.

Oh wow, I didn't realize that's where the name came from...did a Google search and oh yeah ads for that were all over my early '90s comics.

This isn’t Metal Geir Solid, is it?

i'm assuming it's Universal Soldier for the Sega Megadrive

sorry I hate when people do this so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrican

(by do this I meant posting cryptic stuff like I just did before)

Lol, that was actually my first guess, just based on the description of the argument style, without any knowledge of the video game.

had no idea that user was banned here and can't even recall what he did that might have been an issue. but I will say that the Magic Whip was better than I thought it would be when I finally listened to it

I think they just got FPd and never came back, don't think it was a permaban?

shhhhhh

Nah, I think he was permabanned, he'd moved through being merely annoying to being downright obnoxious and eventually on to some unpleasant personal attacks. Plus I have some memory of him branching out from ILM towards the end of his tenure and holding some pretty dodgy opinions on various subjects.

He was banned because he became unhinged at the end.

Or what Tom said

ah fair enough - that all sounds right, I just thought it was a 51 and he realised he wasn't welcome here

sorry I hate when people do this so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrican

― Colonel Poo

awww that takes all the fun out of it

https://segaretro.org/Universal_Soldier

ahh, good ol turricunt. i fp`d him every time he posted, whether or not it was objectionable... mostly because he was posting the shit that tom alluded to and because he was just kind of a rude person without any self-awareness. i was actively campaigning to be unreasonably rude because what comes around goes around, bitchass. good riddance.

i haven't read this but it's about a guy who spends $1M on his stereo and pissed his family off. wasn't sure where to drop it but here seems like a good fit!

https://i.imgur.com/9PpfeuQ.png

here is a free/gift link:
https://wapo.st/47ErwZI

damn, what a sad story :(

i posted it this morning on the continuing with CDs thread with the youtube doc. the doc gives even more insight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw

someone actually bought those gigantic custom speakers!

The 10-foot-tall speakers? After 18 bids, an Indiana man named Carlton Bale snagged all three for $10,100. Less than you’d pay for a pair of Yamaha NS-5000 bookshelf speakers.

A fan of Fritz’s YouTube documentary, Bale had set out a couple of years ago to build what he imagined would be “the second-best loudspeaker in the world” — until he heard about the Fritz auction.

“I thought, ‘Do I really have the time to build the speakers I want that probably aren’t going to sound as good as the ones Ken built?’” Bale recently recalled, after driving to Virginia with a U-Haul to fetch them last month. The price, he conceded, was “a steal. The bargain of a lifetime.”

That story is some genuinely tragic shit, just a man truly brought down by an obsession. Every so often I'll read one of these types of stories and while they vary in the extremes, usually at the end I wind up thinking, wouldn't I rather just have a well curated CD collection that would cost a fraction of that and maybe bring me equivalent joy, or perhaps more joy albeit considerably less cool points? Just the sheer expense and unpredictability of vinyl is wearying. Probably part of it is how so many record stores don't do anything for me at all, it's rare that I walk into one and it's an amazing experience. I know that's probably just me and my own particular tastes and preferences though.

Has relates to the thread subject, once I read a thread titled something like, "does your spouse share your music taste?" and one answer was something like, "she never wants to listen to the same music as I do. Sometimes I wish I just lived all alone." :/

ouch.

perfect sound forever, though!

Thx for the gift link. A good reminder of “the important things in life,” I guess…

usually at the end I wind up thinking, wouldn't I rather just have a well curated CD collection that would cost a fraction of that and maybe bring me equivalent joy, or perhaps more joy albeit considerably less cool points?

This is me, basically. To look at how many records and CDs I own, a person might assume I'd have a top-of-the-line system to play it on, but nope. I always went for "decent," and when I couldn't afford decent, I just acquired hand-me-downs and bought Goodwill stuff, and I've never felt any particular urge to upgrade my system. It isn't that I don't think I'd enjoy having a nice setup, but, to your point, there are about a hundred things I would rather spend my limited disposable income on than audiophile equipment - like CDs and records, for example.

It’s almost as if you like music rather than equipment. Crazy!

My entire audio setup has been cobbled together from various sources. My wife's Teac amp, my Project Debut III, a pair of Bowers and Wilkins matrix speakers I won in a weird work raffle a dozen years ago, plus my Onkyo single CD player. I definitely have a few friends who have gone for really really pricey equipment, like thousands of dollars, and I just can't do it. I mean it would be a financial stretch and psychologically I'd feel like I was getting conned somehow. I think the audiophile snake oil thread has me paranoid!

I mean I do love vinyl records obv. right now I'm listening to the led Zeppelin self-titled, the triple vinyl reissue from a few years back, and it sounds pretty great. Just don't tell me that actually there's this 1985 pressing exclusive to Japan that's really the best one haha.

But there's something about the simple pleasure of driving around with my kid listening to the first cracker CD, which I found for two bucks and bought because he's really into them and CVB now. That also sounds great!

. My wife's Teac amp, my Project Debut III, a pair of Bowers and Wilkins matrix speakers I won in a weird work raffle a dozen years ago, plus my Onkyo single CD player. I definitely have a few friends who have gone


^this is all really good stuff I bet it sounds great

I also have a pretty mid-fi setup. I live in a studio apartment on a road with plentiful traffic, and with the clanking trucks and car subwoofers rattling my windows, the best way to improve my setup would be to move. But I have cheap rent and am within walking distance of my job and most necessities, so it's hard to give those things up in pursuit of optimal listening conditions.

a pair of Bowers and Wilkins matrix speakers I won in a weird work raffle a dozen years ago

I got a pair of B&W headphones for Christmas, they're outstanding.

Haha I don't work there anymore but basically the guy who ran the company was emptying out his house of all this gear he had, it was a whole mess of laser disc players and DirecTV boxes, plus those speakers. We each got a ticket and then the numbers were called, I was called third. I took the speakers not having looked at them closely but needing better ones than the thrift store fodder ones I owned. They're the matrix 804. Couldn't believe it when I saw what they were and when I looked them up.

Holy moley

“I need you to die slow, m-----f-----,” he told his father. “Die slow.”

If you ever wade through the Hoffman forum, the pathological toxicity on display in that article becomes no surprise. I mean, I care about good sound, but I care about it as much as I care about good-tasting food and act accordingly. Imagine if you treated your meals the way a hot-stamp, one-step lunatic treats their music listening.

As he got older, Fritz sometimes wondered if he could have made space within his own vast ambitions to consider other people’s goals and wishes.

Huh, yeah.

man if I was Kurt I'd have peaced on Fritz so many more years earlier, idk how he lasted that long.

I think that people predisposed to this kind of obsessiveness will find and object of obsession not sure it's much to do with stero equipment at the end of the day

oh yeah, I mean you could pretty much substitute "restoring a classic car" and it would it fine