Dave James Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Great, now all I have to do is think of some WEA albums from the early- to -mid-80s that I need on CD. I might substitute the word want for need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van Basten II Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 (edited) http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php That lot look even more loony than us MG Here's a post from this board http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2589&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=180 Some fucktard on Yahoo groups wrote: I just finished reading an article on line that stated each box set counts as ONE unit sold, the same as if someone bought one copy of Abbey Road. Why is that? If it's a 14 disc boxes why wouldn't it count as 14 units? I know that when Garth Brooks brought out his box set it counted as multiple units when sold. And, has anyone heard any sales figures yet on how many have sold so far? How dare the RIAA deny the Fabs a whole bunch of new gongs? Another fucktard on Yahoo groups wrote: So I came to number 12, "A Taste of Honey". It just happened that I was closer to the left speaker than to the right one at a certain moment, and I came to this conclusion: there is a disturbing background noise in certain places. I decided to make note: (the song lasts 2.01) from 0.09-0.42 a background noise comes up, again from 0.57 - 1.30 and again from 1.40 - 1.44. As I said it is only in the left speaker, and it is like an old record which collected to much dust. All the other tracks do not have this noise That'd be Ringo using brushes on the snare. This guy calls himself a fan, yet refers to Ringo's drumming as "a disturbing background noise in certain places" (could those certain places be the second and fourth beats of every bar?). Still another fucktard on Yahoo groups wrote: I sampled the Beatles box set and first off I would like to say they did a fine job with most of the remastering except for Rubber Soul. They did not use the same master that Mobile Fidelity Soundlab used in 1982. Assuming you downloaded -- erm, purchased -- the version from the stereo box, the answer is simple. That, dipshit, is because they used the digital master from George Martin's 1987 remix. Quote: I wonder what DR Ebbetts feels. He probably feels he got out of the business prematurely. There are so a bunch more stupid fuckers to be fleeced. I promise to stop, but here's just one more fucktard from Yahoo groups who wrote: Hi,I'm working my way through the Mono box set in order, and was gobsmacked to find that on 'Help! and 'Rubber Soul' have both the Mono and Stereo versions of their respective albums on the same disc! (I presume that the stereo versions are the remastered stereo versions, but maybe they're the 1987 versions; I haven't checked yet, and I also haven't played the rest of the mono albums to find out if this pattern is repeated on post 'R.S.' albums. This wasn't the case on the versions of 'P.P.M.', 'W.T.B.', 'A.H.D.N.' or 'B.F.S.'). Has anyone else had this good fortune? Which proved too much even for the moderator, who wrote: Quote: Wow....uhhh, nope. You're just lucky. (Hey, ******** group, help me out here....should I 1) accuse him of piracy because anybody who has the actual box set knows that it's clearly explained literally on the outside of the box, 2) tell him that yeah, he's lucky, he's got a collector's item and that nobody else's copy is like that, 3) it's been discussed to death, or 4) a simple search on any search engine will answer his question in seconds?) Edited February 22, 2010 by Van Basten II Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php LOL.. A somewhat funny bunch of assholes. Also useful for keeping track of deleted posts and "banned" content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php Many of the members of that forum were booted off the Hoffman forum. Among others, I'll bet..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 http://stereocentral.tv/phpbb/index.php Many of the members of that forum were booted off the Hoffman forum. Among others, I'll bet..... I lurked at that forum for a while, but I found it quite uninteresting and I didn't appreciate the many foul-mouthed posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 It's sole purpose seems to be to ridicule the SH forum and it's regulars. Was funny for about 5 minutes, then I decided I had no need to go back. The SH forum has flaws and is over-regulated IMO, but there is some useful interesting information there as well. And I agree with Hans... too much foul mouthed comments over there at stereocentral. It's like 13 year olds who cuss because they can suddenly get away with it, even though it really adds nothing to a discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 I thought it was funny as hell (now I know why old people laughed at me when I was a teenager), but even five minutes of it would make a pretty tedious joke... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesbro Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 The forum is down. Getting a pic of a good looking girl instead. Not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 The forum is down. Getting a pic of a good looking girl instead. Not bad. Looks like it was hacked. (edit) It's back up again. It seems they let the domain name expire - or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 I guess that proves it isn't really a cult - no self-respecting cult would let their domain name expire. They'd be too afraid of the consequences. As it is, I suspect some Gort was in seriously deep doo-doo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 These things can happen to anyone ... Microsoft loses hotmail.co.uk domain – for a while (2003) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Fun blog post about the "insanity" of the hoffman forum: http://robertmusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/insanity-of-steve-hoffman-forum.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I mentioned the Organissimo forum in one of my posts this week and today I see that it has been edited out (with no notation of an edit BTW) by a gort (a Hoffman forum moderator). No notification or explanation was ever made to me either - they just cut it out. Hans quoted me later and they edited it out of that too. The thing that bugs me the most is that all I said was, "As I posted over on the Organissimo forums". What is so offensive about that? The gorts don't want me to post that I am a member of other forums? I am getting tired of the over-active moderation over at that place. In the past few months, it has gotten pretty bad. This past week, one of their ex-moderators who went by the name of Pug started posting over on the Stereo Central forums. His behind the scenes stories are sad to read. It seems that Steve Hoffman is banning mention of anyone who even hints that anything he has ever mastered isn't "the best". Maybe some of our critiques over here have gotten back to him and "Organissimo" is now verboten? Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Yeah, Pug's been doing a good job of explaining how the sausage is made over there - and it ain't pretty. Lots of verboten topics over there (as always), but not sure why Organissimo now makes the list. Insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I mentioned the Organissimo forum in one of my posts this week and today I see that it has been edited out (with no notation of an edit BTW) by a gort (a Hoffman forum moderator). No notification or explanation was ever made to me either - they just cut it out. Hans quoted me later and they edited it out of that too. The thing that bugs me the most is that all I said was, "As I posted over on the Organissimo forums". What is so offensive about that? The gorts don't want me to post that I am a member of other forums? Which posts were "gorted", Kevin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I mentioned the Organissimo forum in one of my posts this week and today I see that it has been edited out (with no notation of an edit BTW) by a gort (a Hoffman forum moderator). No notification or explanation was ever made to me either - they just cut it out. Hans quoted me later and they edited it out of that too. The thing that bugs me the most is that all I said was, "As I posted over on the Organissimo forums". What is so offensive about that? The gorts don't want me to post that I am a member of other forums? Which posts were "gorted", Kevin? I'd like to give you a direct link, but their forum is down. It was the XRCD thread where I copied my post about Lee Morgan's "Tom Cat". Since I was simply copying my post from here, I prefaced it with, "As I said at the Organissimo forum". That little intro has been cropped. You quoted me later in the thread and they edited it out of there too. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I mentioned the Organissimo forum in one of my posts this week and today I see that it has been edited out (with no notation of an edit BTW) by a gort (a Hoffman forum moderator). No notification or explanation was ever made to me either - they just cut it out. Hans quoted me later and they edited it out of that too. The thing that bugs me the most is that all I said was, "As I posted over on the Organissimo forums". What is so offensive about that? The gorts don't want me to post that I am a member of other forums? Which posts were "gorted", Kevin? I'd like to give you a direct link, but their forum is down. It was the XRCD thread where I copied my post about Lee Morgan's "Tom Cat". Since I was simply copying my post from here, I prefaced it with, "As I said at the Organissimo forum". That little intro has been cropped. You quoted me later in the thread and they edited it out of there too. Kevin You couldn't make this up. It's almost like Orwell's Animal Farm (with SH as "Napoleon" ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I find it all very unfortunate since, apparent megalomania notwithstanding, I find SH's remastering work - as evidenced by his DCC discs and the newer Music Matters LPs - to be exceptional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) I find it all very unfortunate since, apparent megalomania notwithstanding, I find SH's remastering work - as evidenced by his DCC discs and the newer Music Matters LPs - to be exceptional. True, but you have to admit that starting about a year ago, the place has gotten strange, to say the least. I think it started around the time Steve booted off the MFSL mastering engineers because they had the audacity to tell everyone that the DCC CD of Roy Orbison's greatest hits was made from 2nd gen masters. Rather than engaging them in a discussion about it, Steve simply banned them and any mention of the MFSL Roy Orbison CD. I've been told that if anyone tries starting up the topic again, their posts are removed and the thread starter is banned. BTW, both of those MFSL engineers have posted about the whole situation over on Stereo Central. They are not happy with Steve Hoffman right now. Edited January 31, 2011 by Kevin Bresnahan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 it's a friggin Jonestown over there - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenny weir Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) Wow - I must be some kind of sicko. I've just read every word on Pug's blog about Hoffman and found it all far more interesting than anything on SHF. Fascinating! Edited January 31, 2011 by kenny weir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I'm lazy but love anything that embarrasses the Hoffman forum. So can anyone post a link to this discussion of the internal decision-making at SH? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I find it all very unfortunate since, apparent megalomania notwithstanding, I find SH's remastering work - as evidenced by his DCC discs and the newer Music Matters LPs - to be exceptional. True, but you have to admit that starting about a year ago, the place has gotten strange, to say the least. I think it started around the time Steve booted off the MFSL mastering engineers because they had the audacity to tell everyone that the DCC CD of Roy Orbison's greatest hits was made from 2nd gen masters. Rather than engaging them in a discussion about it, Steve simply banned them and any mention of the MFSL Roy Orbison CD. I've been told that if anyone tries starting up the topic again, their posts are removed and the thread starter is banned. BTW, both of those MFSL engineers have posted about the whole situation over on Stereo Central. They are not happy with Steve Hoffman right now. About 2 years ago several Hoffman forum moderators ("gorts") quit, among them a few who I thought were quite reasonable; "Pug" was one of them. According to Pug (on Stereo Central) some of them were increasingly unhappy with the way they were supposed to moderate the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 I'm lazy but love anything that embarrasses the Hoffman forum. So can anyone post a link to this discussion of the internal decision-making at SH? What Dan said - links please. That is one hard site to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 (edited) what in the world is this stereo central?!?!?!? diament dogs? this is bizzare Edited February 1, 2011 by chewy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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