From tonysounds@yahoo.com Sun Dec 31 09:37:06 2006
Subject:Re: BB Organ amp

I'd like to see a post where someone said the 3300 will sound bad w/o such and such. I either missed that post, or yahoo deigned not to send it (which is possible, I keep getting 'resubscribe' emails), or you have imposed that implication based on your own preconceptions/prejudices. ALL of these are possible scenarious.

But in the interest of fairness, it would be politically correct for those posting to say "item #xyz really sucked because of it's tube preamp, especially when I tried to do xyz2, but I found that adding item ZZZ, that alleviated the suck factor and really made item xyz sound good, or at least palatable." Or even to suggest that "simply looking at this company's history of products using the same line of thinking used in this product XYZ, my considerable experience with those products tells me that my previous solution, using such-and-such before it, has alleviated the idiosyncracies which I find distracting, and really made the XYZ product shine in a way it's incapable of on its own."

But then again, I'd rather just hear unadorned and diluted opinions...assuming they were backed up with personal experience by the giver. But that said, there is NO substitution for my own ears. I respect many of the folks on this list, some of whom have opinions who run parrallel to my own, some who run counter. I learn more from those whose opinions run counter to mine and are able to extract things out of gear I was not able to, or found ways to do it that I was not able to.

God forbid I tell them they can't give their opinions, a bigger sin than 'pimping'. If that happens, I should be moderated, and same for anyone else.

T

jjmcs49 wrote:
In a recent post you said "Also, since the 3300 has a solid state
amp. You will probably want a SE
Preamp / AMA rack. The nice thing about Steve's Leslies is that he is
incorporating AMA's inside."

I suggested that it seems to me that you are telling someone that a
piece of equipment that you have not heard will sound bad unless they
spend roughly half again as much on a SE product. That, to me, seems
a little rude. As I suggested in the earlier post, if you had said
something like "I have the following equipment and adding the SE
product changes the tone in these ways which I like", then, you would
be giving information that might be useful. To just say I haven't
heard it but you will need this to make it sound good, to me makes
you seem somewhat presumptuous and pretentious. But that is certainly
your right. You are certainly welcome to give your opinions on
products you own and like as often and vociferously as you like. You
offered up an example of what your equipment sounds like and stated
that that is the tone you like. Great, good for you. I have a
different opinion of that tone. Great, good for me. I and anyone else
should be as welcome to give our opinions as you are.

And, neither of the topics that this whole issue seems to be
revolving around contain the word Speakeasy. The first one was:
Re: New Member; Asking For Advice, Leslie 3300 & H-S XK-3
The second one is:
BB Organ amp
Both of these topics were about other products and in both cases you
and other Speakeasyophiles jumped in and explained how the Speakeasy
products were better or provided improvements in what ever way that
topic was discussing. And that would be fine if any of you had
actually heard the other products and could make a comparison or
express an opinion from experience. If every time someone mentions or
asks about a product, you guys jump in with "The Speakeasy Whatever
either is or makes it better" without having heard the product, don't
you think that devalues the worth of your opinion? You are still
welcome to give it, but why do you take such great offense if others
discount it or offer a differing one?