Re: The Bolt, or, Don't monkey with things you know nothing about.


"Stewart Pinkerton" <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:43:58 GMT, "Hypertension" <npreply@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<snip silly tale>

No, the moral is that you really *need* NFB for good performance. You
need a heavy hammer to drive a long nail, so you're screwed if your
arse falls off!

Agreed however, that NFB should only be used by those who know what
they're doing, or it can get you into big trouble. No doubt that's why
our literary dilletante Andre/Jute/McCoy/Frank/Glassgray/Hypertension
hates it so much.............................
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

First, I have to say that Hypertension is a real person, definitely not a
Jute sockpuppet. I was attempting a pastiche of Jutes' excruciating and
pointless little fairy tales tales and I think I've captured the essence
quite well.
Why would I bother? Well, I'm a lurker with an interest in electronics who
became aware of the extent of audiophoolery among aficionados of "high end"
audio. I'm astonished by $2000 interconnects, exotic lacquers, special
little stones to distribute about your listening space, bits of patterned
paper to put on top of your amp, and wilful self-deception by golden eared
savants who claim to hear a difference. I own a self-built tube amp myself,
thirty years old, along with more modern self-built SS amps. I was intrigued
to discover that tube amps are nowadays touted as the only choice for "high
end" listeners, usually at prices way out of proportion to the value of the
parts and the labour of R&D and assembly.
And so, I began to lurk on tube newsgroups to see what tube lovers had to
say about them. RAT got my attention, mostly because of Usenet kook Andre
Jute. If I'm to believe Jute, what little I know of tube audio design is
wrong so I've spent quite a bit of time in Google newsgroup archives
researching the nine year history of Jute on RAT. My conclusion? The same as
most sensible folk. Self aggrandising mountebank and troll whose supposed
achievements in tube audio amount to no more than basement tinkering with
whatever freebies he's been able to cadge. I'm amazed that people like Ian
Churches continue to support him. Mr Churches seems to actually build
workmanlike and practical amplifiers and has produced the pictures to prove
it.
I have personal experience concerning one recent Jute lie, the one about his
novel "The Insurrectionist" (1979) being a prescribed text in Maj-Gen (not
Brigadier) Richard Clutterbuck's politics course at Exeter University. As
the late General retired from teaching in 1982, there's not much of a time
frame for the book to be picked up and used in his course. I came to know
Betty Milner, the Generals former faculty assistant ( read secretary,
watchdog and general fixer) quite well during the late 1970's and actually
met Clutterbuck several times. That was during a previous life I had as a
researcher. I thought the fib which first surfaced in December 2005 to be
quite unlikely. So, I resolved to visit the now retired Betty in Taunton
during a February visit to the UK. By great good fortune (?) I discovered
several hardback Jute (actually McCoy) novels in a Sydney secondhand
bookshop before I left. In due course, I arrived in Betty's cosy parlour and
after catching up of fifteen years of news I produced The Insurrectionist
from my bag. Betty was responsible for all the paperwork concerning
Clutterbuck's teaching, including booklists and lecture notes. I asked
carefully "To your knowledge, did *** ever prescribe works of fiction as
required reading?" She looked at me strangely and replied in the negative. I
handed her the book. She took it between her fingertips as one who suspects
a dog poo practical joke. "Did *** ever use this book in his teaching?" She
shook her head most emphatically. "No, that's quite impossible." She went on
to say that Richard Clutterbuck had little patience with fiction because he
maintained that real-life was far stranger. She shook her head again when I
went on to explain the reason behind my odd line of questioning.
You can see why I tend not to believe anything Mr Jute says.

Hypertension


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