<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A good op can make the best of a bad system, a bad op can make the best system in the world absolutely useless.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">C-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Kristi R-C via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Amen to that. I am sitting on bids to upgrade our sound system that range from $150k down to $20k, each promising the same improvements. Been around long enough to know that the operator is just as, if not more important than the gear. And if you are constantly shouting at me, I doubt you have the hearing left to be advising me about my system. </div><div id="m_-7883269298392290653AppleMailSignature"><br>Kristi R-C</div><div><br>On Mar 20, 2017, at 5:10 PM, Charlie Richmond via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have become ashamed by all aspects of the audio industry after a lifetime of trying extremely hard to provide honest value for money and promote total honesty and complete disclosure. It is very sad now.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Charlie</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Dave Vick via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:38 PM Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="m_-7883269298392290653m_7504833057499726280gmail_msg"><font face="Arial" class="m_-7883269298392290653m_7504833057499726280gmail_msg">Anything to justify the price besides
"they MUST be better"?</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>An Endorsement from PT Barnum, maybe?</div><div><br></div><div>What is it about esoteric audio that brings the con jobs out of the woodwork?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-7883269298392290653HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="m_-7883269298392290653m_7504833057499726280gmail_msg"><font face="Arial" class="m_-7883269298392290653m_7504833057499726280gmail_msg"></font></div></blockquote></font></span></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_-7883269298392290653HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dave Vick
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