Why does NANA hate MANA?

Posted by: Alex S. on 12 August 2001

Am I the only one who's really sick of:

UK: "Mana, its the best thing you can do to your Hi-Fi";

immediately followed by:

USA: "No its not. Its the worst thing you could possibly do;"

followed by:

UK (Parry): "It sounds quite good but its ugly as sin;"

followed by:

USA (Bell): "Its rubbish, rubbish rubbish" - followed by signiature telling us exactly how long he's been Mana-less;

followed by:

UK (Pig): "You're system probably lacks sparkle because you added a Hi-Cap - bin it and buy some/more Mana."

Can someone tell me what this forum thread virus is contributing to the debate, and what are the political forces at work here?

Did the Mana people urinate on all your jackets, and bite the heads off all your pets Stateside - or what?

May I thank the more sensible Mana-philes, Jonathan Ribee, pd Cornelius and others who do occasionally try to add something constructive. And then of course, there's Vuk.

But isn't it all a bit tiresome.

[This message was edited by Alex S on SUNDAY 12 August 2001 at 10:23.]

Posted on: 14 August 2001 by David Dever

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when you disqualified the glass

Wrong guy. I've never bashed glass as a support mechanism, but there are plenty of ways to skin a cat, if you will--assuming you can get your metal feet level!

With a super-rigid high-mass stand like my old Target HE racks, MDF does a fantastic job, but sounds quite dead on others. on the stands typically used by many flat-earthers in the 1980's, glass sounds like a small aircraft ready to take off, with music interposed to comic effect.

Glass directly placed on wood veneer seems to work reasonably well, but there are issues of tonality, and a bit diminished PRaT. So somewhere, you need to figure out how to get more speed without losing richness (back to the analogy of the snare drum shell...)

Dave Dever

Actually, this is beginning to sound like a "red wine-white wine" dichotomy.

Dave Dever

Posted on: 14 August 2001 by Alex S.

quote:
. . . glass sounds like a small aircraft ready to take off, with music interposed to comic effect

It is this type of delightful turn of phrase which makes posting here so worthwhile.