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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Plea for Sanity
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 10:31:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 10:31:20 1984
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I believe only three authors besides yourself have mentioned Phil
lately. I'm reasonably sure he understood that I meant no
disrespect when I attributed authorship of all T$S reviews to
him recently. Phil is well known on the net. He has incredibly
acute hearing, an unusually fine listening environment, a budget
that can afford really good stuff, and the sense and sensibility
to make extremely fine discriminations. He is believable even
when he says incredible things. He is also able to describe what he 
hears, clearly, if in terms not always comfortable to old audio
farts like yours truly.
By the way, while on the subject of incredible hearing, I think
really superior hearing may often be more of a curse than a 
benefit. Once, when I was a teenager I got a stopped up ear from
swimming. An ...ear doctor cleaned out both my ears and did I
suffer for about two days! I could hear a mosquito walk across 
velvet at twenty paces. Cars sounded like thrashing machines.
Thumb rubbed lightly against forefinger at arms length sounded
like two sheets of sandpaper rubbed together. Painful!
An acquaintance of mine is driven screaming out of stores when
they turn on their burglar alarm supersonics before closing.
Anyway, Phil represents to me, and I am sure many net others,
the highest possible standards of listenership. I also believe that
net.audio is prospering lately as judged by the number of news
items.       -Dick Grantges   hound!rfg