Re: Time to return to RAT's roots
- From: "Iain Churches" <taelNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:11:52 +0300
"Peter Wieck" <pfjw@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One of the things that is most important when dealing with those new
to this venue and/or those new to the hobby is to stay away from myth,
legend, prejudice and esoterica-without-effect and attempt to give
advice, comments and suggestions that will have results that will not
send them screaming for the hills.
Peter. One must realise there are many many people who have a
fascination with tube audio, although their experience and expertise
may be limited. Such people are easy prey for salesmen who
want to sell them speaker cables with arrows on, or boutique
capacitors, or whatever.
These individuals hear some half truths, which become gospel, so
things that to them are of paramount importance are perhaps to
many of the rest of us, nonsense.
There are a great many who are interested to take what is for them
a quantum leap into building a tube amp project. People like
yourself have it in your power to encourage and help these people
or kill the interest which they have stone dead. I have noticed
in the past that many newcomers to RAT post an ingenuous question
and get such a mauling that they never return. That's a great shame.
In addition the people who make up the core members of this
group come from many different walks of life. As far as I am
aware, Patrick is the only professional tube amp builder here.
So we all have expertise in widely differing fields. That's what
makes RAT so interesting. We also have more than our fair
share of the lunatic fringe, and it is that which keeps so many
people away.
If this group is to flourish, then we must find the patience to
help fill the knowledge gaps, by asking questions, and replying
to questions when we have something to contribute. There
are several people here driving their own agenda, much of it
actually intended to discredit tube audio.
I get sometimes a couple of e-mails a day, which start:
"Hi Iain. I saw your post on RAT (or I found your website)
and I wondered if you could help me with a problem......."
Usually, it's question about a building project which has
not turned out as it should have done, with unexpected problems,
hum, distortion or instability.
I usually make it clear in my reply that I am no authority on tube
amps though I have built a large number. The correspondent
replies, "I picked you to ask because you seemed have practical
experience and were the least likely to ridicule my efforts."
Furthermore, as this is a "discussion" group in good part, it would be
quite useful if those initiating discussions at least made the first
attempts on their own to research the subject and then initiate with
some level of understanding of the terms and aspects-related.
Otherwise, although there is no such thing as a "stupid" question,
there are certainly any number of good questions that are stupidly
worded or otherwise appear to be in search of stupid answers.
Questions asked in actual ignorance are fine at any level. Questions
asked in deliberate and chosen ignorance deserve all the 'answers'
they get.
Peter. As Andre points out, you cannot impose rules and regulations
on how or what people may post here. If, for any reason the
question does not meet your criteria, then simply don't reply to it.
Somebody else will.
Best regards
Iain
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