Great another TroyD rant thread . . .

SolidSqual
SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
edited February 2008 in The Clubhouse
http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63924
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited February 2008
    He's got a point.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • nms
    nms Posts: 671
    edited February 2008
    Wait! Wait! I have a solution: we'll just ban everybody but Troy, then there won't be any threads at all - he can just talk to his echo.
    My system

    "The world is an ever evolving clusterf*ck." --treitz3
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,413
    edited February 2008
    I like them, Love it when Troy gets pissy
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
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    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited February 2008
    nms wrote: »
    Wait! Wait! I have a solution: we'll just ban everybody but Troy, then there won't be any threads at all - he can just talk to his echo.

    He does that already.
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,341
    edited February 2008
    It's all good fun!
    Carl

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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited February 2008
    I clicked on the link but couldn't find it.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited February 2008
    A thread whose sole purpose is to link to another thread and get feedback about said thread really makes no sense..........

    If ya don't like it, post it in the thread you're disgusted with..........
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,083
    edited February 2008
    It's not a rant, just an observation.

    Nor did I realize that I started a lot of rants.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • rskarvan
    rskarvan Posts: 2,374
    edited February 2008
    Yet another rant...
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  • carpenter
    carpenter Posts: 362
    edited February 2008
    Yup! it's Friday ;)
    God I miss the babes thread.
    "If the global crisis continues, by the end of the year Only two Banks will be operational, the Blood Bank and the Sperm Bank. Then these 2 banks will merge and it will be called 'The Bloody **** Bank'"
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2008
    TroyD wrote: »
    It's not a rant, just an observation.

    Nor did I realize that I started a lot of rants.

    BDT

    Just let it go man.

    Chuck
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,083
    edited February 2008
    I've actually been pretty uncontroversial of late.

    Stay tuned.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited February 2008
    Troy, sometimes you make me wanna give you a big sloppy kiss.
    No excuses!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited February 2008
    TroyD wrote:
    I've actually been pretty uncontroversial of late.

    Stay tuned.

    A few months in the desert tends to dull the senses. You'll hit your stride soon enough.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

    "For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible." - Stuart Chase

    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited February 2008
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    Please only serious post here......:p:p:p:p:p:p
    Please help me Troy.......:D
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    Dont BAN me Bro!!!!:eek:
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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited February 2008
    I have been using a 5.1 JVC, and it's awesome!!

    I have always had good luck with JVC, and I say JVC or Sony...
    Chiranth
    hoosier21 wrote:
    Cobra + SDA's = dead amps laying all around.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited February 2008
    Wow, a rant thread about a rant thread, very productive.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited February 2008
    What kind of speakers? And I didn't see any Fisher, soundesigns, magnavox, Emerson, GPX, Colby or Xingloo of Hong Kong equipment or anything from Sears or JC Pennys?

    Chuck
    Testing
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