Hey there guys
I wanted to wait a couple of days to see if the audiophyte Mr. Fremer came to his senses....
Anybody think that I am annouyed by this post.... I won't answer that, but merely say that people must have some sort of credibility in order to annoy me
There are many great people out there in this forum and many of you have great jobs where you face your customers every day. I face my customers all the time, every day. Does anybody out there treat the customers the way Fremer does? Does Fremer actually know who's his customers and who actually provide his paycheck?
I cannot remember any single company in history where management faced the customer the way Fremer does, without going bankrupt. This is not my opinion but the tale of history... Stereophile as a magazine will come to and end with such attitudes as shown by mr senior contributing editor.
The best people in the business answer to criticism by looking at themselves and critically thinking... How can I and how can we improve. Criticism is a means of help, help to get better.
Obviously, Mr Fremer has lost touch with his audience, and that's certainly not my problem, people stop subscribing to Stereohile as a result of this
Now I just want to have a look at what I wrote and how Mikey never responded to these issues:
He says I sound like a bitter guy, anyone else agree with him
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I wrote: I can't remember the last time Sam Tellig did not write about Musical Fidelity or Triangle speakers in Sam's corner.
MF's response: Never answered that
I wrote: I can't remember the last time there was an issue without Michael Fremer writing about ridiculously priced turntable product
MF's response: He mentioned that he reviewed some affordable products, but he still swarms around expensive stuff. It's just getting out of hand. He never actually answered to this.
But I'm happy to realize that he's suddenly a medical doctor, now I know about the Alzheimer, thanks
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I wrote: Stereophile seem to loose touch with the regular gals and guys out there, or is it me that's out of touch.
MF'S Responce: Nothing about this, just that we are all idiots, and we are bums and wankers, I'm stunned by the analytical skills of Mr Fremer
I wrote: And now they're reviewing Hansen Audio Prince.....
MF'S responce: Nothing
And then MF calls me a butt and jealous wanker. Please Mr Fremer, what's your background for such a statement?
Why do you call a customer that's actually contributing to your paycheck using such words?
Everytime somebody brings this up we end up with the car analogy, it's about the 200th time and it's got nothing to do with the issue at hand. It doesn't change the fact that many of the products they review are ridiculously overpriced.
You may read about this over and over again in readers letters in Stereophile. I certainly don't disregards expensive products, but there must be a given price/performance ratio.
When Mr Hansen of Hanssen Aduio spends many hundred thousand dollars to develop some other different cone material, who says it's better than what Seas, Peerless, Scan Speak, Eton and Vifa can provide. Just about every major high-end manufacturer uses one or more drivers from these companies, and they will happily provide any kind of custom driver. Why spend many hundred thousand dollars to create something that's not better, merely different, perhaps that makes the Hansen different, but better? I'd probably say you can get the same performance for 1/3 the price. Like Thiel CS 3.7.
There is some sort of disorder that I know about that comes to my mind right now....
1. Glibness/superficial charm.
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth.
3. Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
4. Pathological lying
5. Conning/manipulative
6. Lack of remorse or guilt
7. Shallow affect
8. Callous/lack of empathy
9. Parasitic lifestyle
10. Poor behavioral controls
11. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
12. Revocation of conditional release
I will not say anything more about this, just that these guys normally are taken care of by people in white jackets
Your sincerely
Harald
