Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Confession #2

Jack - Yes, you have met him ... and yes, his Mercedes is pretty old ... he has a knack for buying and selling cars at wholesale, and picks up a few bucks.

I saw Dennis's system ... VERY cool stuff !

PM does not "look" liberal, BTW ...

Craig-
A thank you from me as well. I got a little hot headed at some comments and have since kept quite because I find it a little childish to move forward when people do not know the full story. All in all I think that most understand with only a few not believing the kindness of mls.

Anyway, I hope you and the family are doing well. I hope one day to have the fortune to meet up with you, Jack, Ray and MLS sometime in the near future.

Craig

Craig - Overall, this thread has been pretty ok .... I "lurk" around here quite a bit, and bumped into it and posted. I had not realized it was STARTED today ... a LOT of activity....

I got an e-mail from Jack about my "Peter does not look like a liberal" comment ... Jack asked what a liberal looks like ... Actually the question can be better asked "What DOES he look like, then?" ... Peter, I see you in a truckstop, eating steak, and talking about them damn commies" ... Of course, The flannel shirt look with the jeans AND the Goatee add to the trucker persona...

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you put something in one end and loud percussive noises come out the other end

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For the love of God! How many times do I have to ask??? Please leave my digestive tract out of this!

After reading this thread - my thoughts:

- Ajax is a nice guy
- It did have a sales effect, Ray bought a pair
- makeover, to me means you have a substandard setup, and this will be a big upgrade.

Sorry I was late to the party!

1. Thank you.

2. We do not know what Ray paid for his speakers. I cannot say that the amount he paid failed to offset the value of my gift, but then, you can't say it did. So no profit can be assumed.

3. According to my Webster's: Makeover - to change; renovate.

And just to avoid any misunderstanding: Renovate - 1. to make fresh or sound again, as though new; clean up, replace worn and broken parts in repair, etc. 2. to refresh; revive.

Nothing in any of that about "a substantial upgrade." I will admit that, because of the words misuse, it is not unusual for people to make the erroneous inference that it has something to do with upgrading, but that is NOT implicit in the word. It is about making something "like new," which by definition my "makeover' did.

It's kinda like the word audiophile, which according to my Webster's is "a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. Regrettably, it has been bastardized to mean roughly "an EXPERT on high-fidelity sound reproduction," and is readily adopted by those who are far from being an expert.

So, while I am indeed, according to the dictionary, an audiophile, as are all of us here, I am loathe to use the word, particularly in reference to myself, whom I would hardly classify as an "expert" on sound-reproduction. I, in fact, find myself involuntarily wincing each time I hear spoken or see it written.

1. Jack is more than just a nice guy. And was deserving of this.

2. Ray was not a part of this, in regards to AV123. Jack invited him as a friend. period.

3. Jack handled that.

4. My OWN point ... Yesterday, after some more negative press was put on AVS about Axiom, I started a new thread about taking the Rocket RS-1000's floorstanders and RSC 200 center channel out of my system and putting Axiom's M22-ti and VP-150 into it. Unlike the home theater makeover thread, THIS WAS posted on AVS.

To date, precisely TWO members of the Axiom board have posted on the thread.

Within 24 hours of Jack's "confession", there were a LOT more than that.

Pretty sad, gentlemen ... an attempt to highlight Axiom goes ignored on its own forum.

In my own defence, I did look for your post on av123 earlier but didn't see it

Woo-hoo!!! I'm an audiophile now!!! I rule!!!

Very clever ... BUT ... It was posted here that the thread was on AVS... (and yes, I got the humor behind your saying the "AV123" bit .. )