John is getting amazing leeway to create those threads at AVS. The original owners of AVS Forum, Audio Video Science, sold the forum so the commercial interest they had in their forum is no longer there.
The SDP-75 is cool but just too expensive for my blood
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HomeTheaterShack was sold too by the owner, Sonnie Parker (now selling stuff @ AVS), to Vertical Scope, based in Toronto, Canada.
The Shack forum is now averaging five posts per day! It is completely dead for the last several months. It's main attraction? The REW thread.
AVS is also now Vertical Scope, and Vertical Scope was hacked all across the board over a year ago, with all the private info of few million members...passwords, emails, IP addresses, account numbers, ... This is not a secure place, it's a business place for thieves and bandits. It has become so corrupted that even the mods are in it.
Anyway, best is to stay far away and only read the good stuff. ...It is becoming less and less. But we all already knew that, right.
There are better places; diyaudio, ASR, WBF, Blu-rayforum, gearslutz, computeraudiophile, audionirvana, audiocircle, audiokarma, audioaficionado, audioshark, audioshowrooms, audioholics, audioanonymous, audioaddicts, audiogod, audiojesuschrist, audionon-sense, audiotools, audiofakenews, audiohouseofelvis and audiomadonna. ;-)
Sorry for the humor, I wish I could be more serious in a world that needs so much love and affection and tenderness and sweet emotions.
It's raining jazz here.
The AVS ride from 1999 with
Attorney Steven J. Bruzonsky and David Bott is no more today in 2017 with Vertical Scope, all the hacking/damage that has been done, the control freaks still there after all those years (they must have no life), the aggressive business of selling audio products from their dealers, and all that fake pizzazz.
But there are three good people who remain; Floyd, Markus and Don (from here). Robert Zohn (best guy in the world) is gone (banned for life), Frank the audio technician from Toronto (banned for life), and few more of some of the best audio scientists still living today (all banned for life). I just got a PM from a very good friend (totally fair/square guy); he just got banned from AVS for life as well! I just got his PM half hour ago, and this guy is one of the best people on the planet, his first name is Ron.
Anyway, we have music, we have films, we have family, we have friends with a solid heart in their bodies and a solid head on their shoulders.
We don't need anything else.
Right now it's the people in Texas who need help, the army's help with many helicopters, the president's help. They need food, water and shelters.
* Edit: Typo.