Jerry said, "As for our readership, the industry standard for measurement of online traffic is widely accepted at Google Analytics."
It seems like maybe you weren't smart enough to figure out my post in the other review here:
(Link to Parasound review on hometheaterreview site)
and think that telling people that Google Analytics is the widely accepted standard counters what I said. Did you have trouble comprehending the part of my post where I said that I would like to see the Google Analytics numbers for audioholics.com versus this site? Responding to that by saying that Google Analytics is the standard and telling the person you schooled them with that is idiotic, but it is doubling idiotic when you then call them idiotic because you can't seem to comprehend what they said. Was my post too complicated for you because I both quoted Alexa numbers and said I would like to see the Google Analytics numbers and so you actually thought that your responses countered what I posted? It seems to me like you are afraid of people seeing the actual numbers for audioholics.com versus your site by Google Analytics (which you've agreed is the industry standard), as I basically said in that other thread where you made an idiotic response to what I said and then banned me because you said I was an idiot. You and your friend Jeremy Kipnis seem to have a lot in common. He claimed I didn't know what I was talking about on a subject matter and then made a complete fool of himself as people got to see that he couldn't even answer a basic question on that subject matter. People can see that if they search for "avsforum DefinerOfReality Duh!" on Google, since Jeremy posts as DefinerOfReality on avs. You call me an idiot after you seem to have trouble even understanding my post (otherwise why would you tell me that Google Analytics was the standard and that this schooled me after I just said I wanted to see the Google Analytics numbers)? Were you so confused that you thought I said Alexa was the industry standard? Do I need to hold your hand or something for you to comprehend those things?
This is less of an IQ test than a gut check, but are you afraid of people seeing the Google Analytics numbers for audioholics.com versus this site? Or would you need to come up with some lame excuse for why they kick your butt on Google Analytics and yet you claim to be #2 to stereophile.com?
Jerry also said, "I have studied Dale Carnegie for years and have worked on inner-personal skills since I was in high school."
That may explain some of your issues. You should have been working on your interpersonal skills and not your inner-personal skills. Again, it is hilarious to be called an idiot by somebody who says they were working on their inner-personal skills. Just makes it that much funnier.
For others, in case it wasn't clear about one thing above, Ken claimed that the stereophile review agreed with his findings. That is completely false. They didn't even use the same Oppo player. Saying that the Lexicon sounded better than the $499 BDP-83 in no way means a person agreed that the Lexicon sounds better than the $899 BDP-83SE. I hope that Ken ups his reporting in the future so that he isn't so sloppy in making claims.
Jerry also said, "HTR has created more reviews than any other AV publication in any media since its launch."
And I think it is fortunate that readers here have been able to see some of the things that you have done in order to do that. For instance, posting a review from a person who was a dealer for the product at the time. I'm sure some astute readers will also realize that it is easier to post more reviews if you allow people to write a review for a product when they don't actually have the product. You brag about how successful you've been in this business for 20 years and I think people are seeing some of the stuff that many would consider very low, but that you have done to try to achieve that success. You say that you don't care about my question about whether Jeremy actually had an ST100 screen for the ST100 review that is amongst those reviews that make up your "more reviews" claim, but it seems like you spent time avoiding that question. The excuse that you don't have time for something doesn't work when it took more time to avoid the question and talk your way out of things than it would have taken to actually answer the question.
And yes Jerry, I know that you will likely ban me again in an attempt to keep people from seeing some stuff. I will be sure to save copies of these things so that I can refer back to them and I know there is at least one site willing to host copies of stuff that you delete. Then people can see what you were afraid to leave here or banned people about to keep them from pointing out the idiocy in some of your responses.
--Darin
