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Joe Roberts wrote:

I thought I was quite clear about my evaluation program: Put it on. Play some music. Does it present a compelling emotional experience of musical enjoyment for me? If yes...GOOD! If no, maybe somebody else will like it. This for me is the CORE musical evaluation. All this other hogwash about bandwidth and whatnot is physics, not music. Sound, not music. Missing the main point of musical reproduction, musical enjoyment.

This is absolutely not my view, in fact the I very much in opposition with this view.

Joe Roberts wrote:

True that I have not yet figured out how to write this evaluation program in an outline form. Actually, I gave up trying because one sentence is enough. If you try to catch the butterfly, you kill it.

..and it come from a person who is in academics? Hm….

Joe Roberts wrote:

My main point is that if you have not heard "X," your long distance review of "X" is highly suspect. "You" here is not pointing to our feline host...doesn't matter who it is.

Well, Joe, I do not think you have seen me to “write a review”. I usually very specific in my critiques but I also have good memory. According to my memory I do not criticized Silbatone speaker but rather expressed my disrespect to a full-driver speakers.

Joe Roberts wrote:

So what I found most interesting about the Silbatone speaker is that it sounds VERY DIFFERENT from any other speaker I have heard. It explodes the notion of "single-driver" speaker as sounding this way or that. It was a NEW experience.

It is possibly, but at the same time I can copy and paste a number of the absolutely identical comments from other single-driver speakers’ manufacturers of marketing people who come up with absolutely indistinguishable assurances. Furthermore, some of them (among trios who it not deaf or Moron) while maintaining the public single-driver evangelist position in private conversation asked me to shut up saying: “Come on Romy, what else did you expected from a single-driver speaker?” So, I do not say anything bad about the Silbatone, I did not heard them, but I would point out that the only two questions that I proposed above you to ask yours about the Silbatone you left with answers.

Joe Roberts wrote:

This surprise experience is one of the great thrills audio can provide. This was the thing that once drove me to write.

Joe, I need to make here a remark that you will not like. If you would like to be treated by me with any grain of seriousness then you need to demand from yourself a higher level of honesty about yourself. You were driven to write not because the reported “orgasmtick experiences with Silbatone of yours” and you know it very well. Come on, let stop it. I am a feline, not a 12 years one human.

Joe Roberts wrote:

I looked around the site and I think there is some useful perspective here, but no final answers, nor should there be. Romy, good job for getting people to think...now, let them think and experiment. The goal of any teacher should be to have students who move far beyond them and leave the teacher in the dust.

Well, I have a very clear picture of what you looked around my site but it is not important. What is important is that I have absolutely deferent objectives to “write” then you have or then most of your colleges have. I do not writhe foe somebody but only for myself. I think if you think deeper to it then you will see where I am coming from…

Joe Roberts wrote:

Otherwise, I am more happy retired where the chances of interesting non-audio conversation are much higher.

It is all deepens of what is the definition of “audio” for a person. I agree that if people understand audio as the plate currents, comparing the recipes for soaking of woofer’s cones and collection of the James Bullough Lansing’s wife pictures then the conversations about audio might be too boring. Fortunately audio might be by  different brew…

Joe Roberts wrote:

Also, I'll be checking my Google stats religiously, but I think 6moons has goodsoundclub beat for linkage.

I am sure it is. If you post your comments at goodvibes.com, claiming that Silbatone would make a perfect elephant dildo, then your Korean friends would have even more traffic. Isn’t it what it was all about?

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