More really annoying things that people say

"Can I get" as in "Can I get a coffee?"

Math, insteads of maths.
It might (might) work in the USofA, but not here.
Oh, & its Nestles milky bar for gods sake, NOT Nestlays! Or am I showing my age?
matt.

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Originally posted by manicatel:
Math, insteads of maths.
It might (might) work in the USofA, but not here.
Oh, & its Nestles milky bar for gods sake, NOT Nestlays! Or am I showing my age?
matt.

I believe that the Nestle trademark has an acute accent above the 'e' at the end of the word. Hence 'Nestlay".

Any variation of "poor little old me"...
Anyone prattling on about how hard life is/life's not fair etc.

A good rebuke I did hear was "Suck It Up Princess".

Pete

IMHO - and smileys.

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and smileys.

Some thing else to ban from the forum then.

Never mind Adam, Howard, I think he still has a cold

Anyway, is it true you've changed your speakers recently to Neat Motive 2s?

No not allowed anymore hardware for a while.

H

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Originally posted by JonR:
Never mind Adam, Howard, I think he still has a cold

S'not true.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
No not allowed anymore hardware for a while.

H

Oops, must have had you confused with someine else - sorry!

Really annoying things people say:

My passive biamped Naim system sounds much better than single amped.

Nordost cable sounds sooooo much cleaner and more vibrant.

NACA5 cable's no good.

Speakers are much more important than the source or amp.

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Originally posted by joe90:
Really annoying things people say:

Speakers are much more important than the source or amp.

It may be annoying, but it's true. To be more precise, the speaker/room interface is far more important than source or amp (unless you do most of your listening through headphones of course).

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Originally posted by Sloop John B:
"your call is important to us- please continue to hold"



SJB

As Private Eye put it: 'Your call is important to us, but not important enough to make us recruit more people to deal with it'.

Thank you for proving my assertion from the other thread - the nature of the tester indeed stuffs up the test.

To show where your idea falls over, get a really well 'matched speaker/room interface' and then feed those glorious speakers with a transistor radio, and see how good the sound is.

Thing is, your room interface idea (which is all good don't get me wrong) RESTS ENTIRELY on getting the right source and amp for a start.

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Originally posted by joe90:
Thank you for proving my assertion from the other thread - the nature of the tester indeed stuffs up the test.

To show where your idea falls over, get a really well 'matched speaker/room interface' and then feed those glorious speakers with a transistor radio, and see how good the sound is.

Thing is, your room interface idea (which is all good don't get me wrong) RESTS ENTIRELY on getting the right source and amp for a start.

Well, to prove or disprove the theory would mean faffing about with speakers, amps and sources to test whether a cheap source and amp sound better through well-sorted room and speakers than an expensive source and amp through cheap speakers, and that would be difficult, time-consuming and would not really be objective proof anyway.

In the interests of avoiding fruitless arguing of the toss I'm prepared to compromise and say that speaker/room interface is every bit as important as source/amp quality, but that's my final offer.

This moaning has gone on long enough, and it has to stop.
My absolute worst, which I hate with a passion is (imagine the scene):
You are coming out of Asda or Somerfield with your two carrier bags of provisions, and you have to negotiate your way around the hordes of pink velour shell-suited women, squinting from the fag smoke rising from their lips into their eyes, who seem (between shouting at "Beth-an-nnayy" & "Ree-ann-ann" to "Shaadaaap") incapable of saying (to passers-by that they obviously know) anything other than:
"See yer laa-er"
Man - I hate that! More than anything else "See yer laa-er" is my personal hell.
That's it - I'm done now. No more moans (for 10 minutes anyway).

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n the interests of avoiding fruitless arguing of the toss I'm prepared to compromise and say that speaker/room interface is every bit as important as source/amp quality, but that's my final offer.

Offer accepted.