more hoffman stuff.

you now how they make a big deal over there when someone gets to a certain number of posts (like 5000).

well, i reached 5000 yesterday and not a word! not a word when i hit 4000 either.

amazing group, aren't they?

renny

They didn't say nary a word when I hit 1,000 either, Renny. They're worse than a High School clique when it comes to acknowledging anybody who doesn't have the secret decoder ring and private gibberish password.

You are supposed to start the congratulatory thread yourself like some members have

Whatever. Those threads are so incredibly ghey anyway, almost as ghey as spending time over at the "Bones" forum, and, you know, wishing the other members goodnight and stuff.

when monkeys fly out my ass.

I cringe when I see my own post count. I probably regret at least 500 of them.

FWIW, your Borders coffee tirade is one of my favourite ICE posts of all time.

Not a good suggestion I take it?? Most of those "waste of band-width" congratulatory posts have been started by the "celebrated one" lately.

Where is the "crawling under a rock" smilie??

Make that 501.

they know who we (ICEr's) are, and they do not like us.

They don't want to presumably because your are a moderater here. Some people there are somewhat cliquey. Your posting is of more use over here anyways. There is still alot of good info on SHtv, but it's gone downhill the last couple of years, especially the music forum section.

Don't take it personal!! I never got any praise for 5000, 6000, 6161 or any other number I can think of.

I survived

eel killer,

congratulations on your 271st post!

What is "ghey"?

It's an attempt to take the connotation of homosexuality out of the word/insult "gay."

Just my opinion but to me it's a way of being homophobic with a clear conscience.

That's just plain gay...as in lame (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Sounds pretty rhetarded to me...

Well then, Phuket.

(BTW, Federico, that's exactly how it struck me.)

I'm all choked up!!

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showt ... p?t=140713

Is this guy full of himself or what? All this because somebody finally had the nerve to criticize a Steve Hoffman mastering job? What about all of the other mastering engineers whom have been slagged countless times over the years at Steve's very own forum?






http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/sh...39#post3254239

I don't disagree with anything you quoted Hoffman on, especially in the audiophiile context of his forum.

As an example there is a budget 40 cd Duke Ellington box from a German label that goes by several different names including Trumpets Of Jericho, Tim & others. I belong to a Duke Ellington mailing list, & there has been significant disagreement on the sound quality (or lack of) of this box. I think it sounds like an old telephone, with the mids extremely boosted & no top or bottom. The list is very much split 50/50 on that set. Some hear what I do, others mostly with mass market inexpensive systems hear a sound they like. The set was probably intentionally voiced for cheap stereos. Someone with a $100 system with recessed midrange would probably hear a fairly smooth sound & the way they mastered it almost all the surface noise is gone. Even my cheap pc & car stereos tend to be pretty revealing, & I can't sit through more then a few minutes of the set without feeling irritated.

While I'd really like to feel superior & say I'm right & the other half of the Ellington list is wrong; that wouldn't make sense because listening enjoyment is subjective & a number of DE list members have been clear that they've gotten tons of enjoyment out of that box for their $50. What I'm hearing Hoffman saying above is that the way a particular system is voiced will have a HUGE impact on how a given recording sounds on it. I don't have any problem at all with that statement (though their may very well be other agendas behind the words; I'm not a member of that forum).

I'm only getting the impression that Mr. Hoffman has some serious control issues...