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I remember when this Circle was established and the fairly lax enforcement of those guidelines over time. The fact that so few are even aware that there are guidelines speaks volumes. The idea that there are still those who aren't caught up in the pursuit of "trophy" audio equipment and truly interested in great sound for reasonable costs was and is an important principle, at least to me. I would not like to see those original guidelines relaxed even though they seem too restricting. The quality of musical reproduction need not be determined by price strictly. Larry
And it's important to me as well Larry, it's why I volunteered to facilitate the circle. It's been a battle deciding where to be a price Nazi and where to be lenient. Foremost the place should be fun and enjoyable to post in, second it should be fun to find very good to excellent products within the pricing guidelines. So the most strictly enforced are the OP threads, if that's over the top we need to move the thread. Less emphasis is placed on enforcing price guidelines for individual posts, and a gentle word that, for example, Mapletree Audio Design products are for the most part over the pricing guidelines is enough. And remember, to be within the rules you only have to make a very weakly supported case that you could put together a musically viable system under $1000-1200 US using the component you're touting. If we were talking headphones here, you could use a MAD head amp and your 'puter to get there.
So in subsequent responses to the OP, we aren't supposed to discuss anything that is above the price point, even if it's pertinent to the discussion? Just making sure I understand. My list of gear earlier in the thread was to futher the point of "American made products"....I wasn't trying to thwart the forum guidelines.
Here's how I see it, first, no crimes have been committed here so everyone can take a deep breath and exhale. Secondly, no one's getting yelled at because something they post in reply might go a bit over guidelines, we're here having fun talking about audio products. However from time to time I may exert a gentle guiding hand suggesting everyone remember it's the C&C circle. So in your case it's more like good try, but no cigar. No worries. P.S. I like the link to hollowstate and bookmarked it for further reading later, thanks.
