Ian may be bickering abut nothing... I'M bickering about the complete refusal to provide any empirical evidence to back up a VERY strongly worded opinion.

If I completely disagree with someone about a musical or sound issue, I am MORE than happy to provide musical evidence for what I believe. I don't honestly expect anyone just to take my WORD for it, and neither should anyone else. Real world comparisons are the only time this forum, to be honest, actually produces anything of any real value other than an opportunity to waste a few hours kaffeeklatsching..

I've learned more about certain things in ONE posted musical example (James' Karma demonstration, for instance) than in a hundred back and forth backbiting sessions.

Thing is, Ian goes out and does a Yamaha clinic, he doesn't honestly expect to stand there and simply TELL everyone how good Yamaha's are. He knows, were he to do this, that a) no-one would believe a word of it, and b) he would be fired on the spot!

I simply can't see why something so utterly easy to do (takes five minutes) is something he is so strenuously objecting to. He's spent more time on this one thread POSTING his self appointed moderator comments than it would have taken him to simply provide a musical example to back up his opinion. So don't think that time is the issue whatsoever...

Why NOT settle the issue in an objective fashion? Or is simply posting snide comments at anyone that disagrees with him simply so much more FUN?