184c wrote on Fri, 17 December 2004 22:57 |
These blind listening test "opportunities" were offered to you on several occasions, only after you consistently bashed the X73 and later admitted that you had never given it a proper evaluation. We in no way meant these public offers for you to pick our X73 and or X73i out of a lineup of vintage 1073's, which you have always found reasons not to attend, as being an offer for you to become a dealer for us.
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Dallas, this being the holiday season that's your one free gift... the gift of trying to start some shit to advertise your product. Any further communication on this will either be done privately, or not at all.
To recap for the procedurally impaired... if you want the nice people of our shop to listen to your stuff, send it up. No, we didn't get to give it what I felt was a proper evaluation. A proper evaluation takes a month, sometimes longer [in the case of the truly great shit, less than a month, in the case of stuff on the border more than a month, in the case of the mediocre to piss poor... a bit under a month as we try to find some kind of redeeming quality in it somewhere].
SPL just sent in a Mastering EQ in a big, heavy wooden crate. Mackie just sent in their latest and greatest pre-amp for us to mess with, there are 3 or 4 mics in the batting order, etc.
I'm going to say this one last fucking time.
I don't listen to
anything out of context to make a decision on it.
Period.
Noth-ing.
You sent up a unit to a session I was doing in Atlanta... it was listened to, albeit briefly, in context, decisions were made as to the context of that session and we moved on.
So, if you want me to hear your shit, send it the fuck up so we can put it through it's paces. I don't know why you're afraid to send us up stuff to listen to?
If you're unwilling to do follow our evaluation procedure, then shut the fuck up.
Any/every other manufacturer who wants us to check out their shit does that, you my friend are not special. Your product will go through the same procedure, same scrutiny every other piece of gear goes through... or you don't get to say "we invited you to our party", because I don't go to other people's parties. They're welcome to come to mine, but I don't go to theirs.
The stuff will get a fair shake... we've been surprised before. Benchmark surprised us... we never thought in a million years we'd like the shit but guess what, we do. More recently Apogee surprised the hell out of me. 15-16 months ago I was fighting like a dog to get that crap off our roster... then low and behold they came out with some product I could stand. The Toft ATC-2 was a serious shocker. I didn't think that thing had a prayer in hell of being added to the roster... but looky, lookie... it made the team!!
The Horch mic... first time they sent it in I thought they were joking it was so fucking terrible. Turns out it was broken. The second one they sent over was pretty good... but not special enough to add to our roster. The third one was a charm, and now it's been added to the roster.
I know you're into all kinds of wonderful party tricks and shit like that, but the fact of the matter is that we do things our way or not at all. As you're well aware that's the beauty of having your own company, you can make up your own rules, your own procedures. If your rules and your procedures preclude you from sending up stuff for us to give a try, then it precludes you from sending up stuff for us to give a try... but understand that the last experience we had with something is the experience we'll go by.
Last time I tried your stuff it wasn't "a Neev"... it was "eh". I'm sure it's a fine $3-400/channel pre-amp or what ever the hell people charge for it, but as far as I was concerned, it wasn't a fucking Neev, nor was it any special... it was OK, not the best tool for the task at hand, we moved on... if it had gone through 15 or 20 sessions like that then perhaps I might have drawn a different conclusion... but it didn't, so I didn't.
Want to change my mind?
Send up some stuff for us to try that blows my mind.
If you don't think I'll say what I really think of it, then you insult me to no end. If you do think I'll say what I really think of the stuff, and feel like it's good enough to pass our little evaluations... send it in.
Is there a part of "send it in" you're having a hard time understanding?
BTW, don't bother responding with words. I will remove any/all response posts to this thread. I will not debate this. Been there, done that, you got your free advertising out of it, that's the end.
If you want to respond with action, I promise you we'll give it a fair shake. If you'd like to join it for the evaluation process... I'll give you the number for the local "Extended Stay America" motel... book a month there and feel free to be present whenever we're using the thing.
This is the
L-A-S-T time I'm going to say this... the ball is in
your court... do what you will, but the initial decision is
all yours.
Have a nice day.