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berlinta wrote:

..."your boyfriend from Oswalds Mill"... Absolutely superfluous, meant to insult only choice of words. My wife, if I'd show her this thread, would yell at you like a drill seargent. Her fuse is short.

Come on, Frank, you need to be a bit less uptight.  For years I use phrase “boyfriend” as a subside-mockery of American fear of English. I refer to coworkers in corporate environment as “boyfriends” and the damage in there is much-much higher. My coworkers are laughing but you got pissed and brought your wife to the table. Get live, will you. Though I have seen as you friend from Oswalds Mill I have traded his wife as well…

berlinta wrote:

...""It is my firm conviction that if you are associated with Oswald’s Mill then you are a bottom of the barrel and it is my very fundamental judgment." "I do not have hostility toward you" Those two sentences following each other directly are contradictory.

Why would it be so? I do not feel hostility even to your Oswalds Mill friend. I wish a track tomorrow run over him and kill this son of bitch but I do not feel hostility. Hostility implies engagement but I have absolutely no engagement with nether Oswalds Mill not with you at this matter.

berlinta wrote:

Here in Germany(and several other countries) it is a criminal offense to disply a swastika or other Nazi insignia. In fact, if you were to publish such a comparison in Germany, one could sue you for libel. I value the freedom of expression highly, but only up to a point where discrimination of race, gender, nationality and religion sets in. I've worked for and with people from over 80 countries, from all denominations and and wide variety of cultural backgrounds for nearly 18years(German foreign office, Federal Press office, Senate of the City of Berlin, Jewish community,Turkish community, US newspapers and TV stations, The Berlin Film Festival...).  I've talked to old Nazis, Neo-Nazis and kids who just wear a swastika to piss off their parents and teachers. I would never associate myself with a Nazi(or a muslim fundamentalist, or a hardcore fan of the Stakin era USSR, etc...), but I would always try to talk with them to understand what makes them tick. As long as you can maintain a proper distance you can form a basis helping you to prevent others(kids) from falling into the trap of radicalism.  So, I'd appreciate it if you could refrain from mentioning me and National Socialism in the same context in the future.

Ok, first of all I did not know that you are German. When you register at my site you use provider from Belgium so I thigh that you are from there. Regardless where are you are from and who you are my illustration with Nazi swastika was just an illustration of concept and was not targeted as a pan against you. In fact if I know that you are German then I would probably use an example of blacks and KKK of something at this matter. Still, the illustration was just an illustration and there is no need to search in it anything more than it was intended.

berlinta wrote:

"The expertise, understanding and the actual Sound that Jonathan Weiss is capable off has become the representation of what Mr. Schroder dies, his face and his respect to sonic reference points." Let me assure you that no dealer (and Mr. Weiss is a dealer, not the distributor) that I cooperate with has a system that matches my sonic ideal. It would then be, quite frankly, impossible to sell anything through third persons. The enthusiasm, if not passion for music (and the gear that reproduces it) is the yardstick by which I go. That and the willingness to do as much as possible to make the customer happy. If the dealer starts placing profit above service, he's out. If he insults a customer, he's out.

Fair. I do not insist that dealers/distributors necessary reflect the manufacturers’ sonic ideal but it is frequently a case. Might I ask you, Frank the German: would you appoint a person as your dealer if you know that this person let say an active member of US Nazis party, or you know that he breaking in the customer houses and still the things. In my judgment Jonathan Weiss is worse than this and he is your dealer.

berlinta wrote:

"Is it possible that behind that Frank’s “technical literature” there is an absolute ignorance about needs of Sound? I would not speculate, I do not know Frank Schroder personally and the only circumstantial evidence I have is the Frank’s association with Weiss – it is enough!" The above sentence is exactly that: speculation.

Of course speculation, so what? I know quite many people who are Oswalds Mill related. They all have the very same common denominator of my speculations. You would be very surprised to learn how accurate my speculations are in context many of them.

berlinta wrote:

I'm still waiting for you to be so kind and explain what you meant by what the quote below refers to. "I'm not shure I got your point about "VTA/VTF lock", what do you mean by: the arm will try to "maintain VTA", despite no change in VTA(?)"

Let look at static VTA, sort of differentiation VTA frozen in one single point. All theories might be applied to this VTA and everything is fine. BUT, in real live static VTA does exist and needs along with arm coals is constantly bounce up and down the groove. So, more appropriate from theory level would be no do not view VTA as some kind of perm angle but rather an angle that has a vector of acceleration.  However, I argue that it has no practical meaning and I feel that efforts to enforce the VTA/VTF lock (to a degree) are not justifiable. I think you fiddle with it juts because you can and because your arm is light-suspended. In other arms the suspensions and bearing tension are stronger then vector of VTA change. However, in other arms those tension act as buffer that make a tonearm to operate stable and constantly. In your light-suspended arm everything is “exposed” and arm has no “start”, no entry reference point if you know what I mean. I presume that this is why some people complain about your arms as they find it too tweaky and too vulnerable to the conditions. In my view the greatest arms have that perfect balance what the arm need to react upon and what it need discard or “swallow” by own tensions. In my view the 3012 has this perfect balance. I do not use your arms but from what people say in this thread as from my understanding how your arm work I feel that your arms might need to have some “tension grounders”.

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