This lie from PinkoThicko requires correction:

"Stewart 'Porg Butcher' Pinkerton" wrote:
: On 7 Dec 2005 15:25:11 -0800, "Andre Jute" wrote:
:
: Unfortunately there are a lot of posts about that time, as Patrick
: Turner was indulging his St Francis passion for salvaging lame vultures
: and trying to teach poor Pinkothicko, who had challenged me to a design
: contest, the basics of electronic design and making a ****ing awful
: meal of it because Pinko isn't called Thicko for nothing.
:
: I did no such thing, that's just more of your usual pathetic
: self-aggrandisement.

I was publishing the rationale for an ultrafidelity 300B amp in stages.
You, Pinkerton, kept interfering, deliberately wrecking discussion with
your silicon crap. When I told you, yes, you Pinko, to **** or get off
the pot, you claimed you could build a silicon amp with zero feedback
that would sound as good as my 300B amp. That's a challenge.

Graciously I stopped work on my own project to clear the decks for your
challenger, I thought for a week or two. The delay turned into many
months because it turned out that you, Pinkothicko were as pig-ignorant
of audio design as of everything else. It turned out that, before you
could design anything, you had to be given a crash course in audio
design by Patrick Turner and John Byrns.

Considering the results, those two guys get an A+ for goodwill and
trying really hard, but they an F- for failing to turn you into
anything that even remotely approximates an audio designer. (Turner and
Byrns will see me after class. Their apples had better be big and
shiny...)

After further huge delays while you, Pinkerton, tried to wriggle out of
your rash promise, you produced a piece of **** on paper that didn't
have the devices indicated, that was unbuilt, untested, undocumented,
and that broke every one of the rules of the contest. Oh yes folks, did
I mention yet, I permitted the foul Oinkerton to set his own rules for
the contest...

After you, Pinkerton, set the rules yourself, including zero feedback,
your little paper design used all kinds of feedback, twice as many
devices as were in the rules, etc, etc, an absolute travesty not only
as an audio device and a challenge but because it broke the rules you
made and agreed to.

You wriggled this way and that way, Pinkerton, but it was clear to
everyone that you lost the contest before you even started. Now you
claim you never made the challenge. Anyone can google to months of
exchanges about it. The challenge, the process and the outcome stand on
the record. You're a liar, Pinkerton, besides being a sore loser, an
electronics incompetent, and ill-mannered slime.

******
Incidentally... When I realized what a rolling, time-wasting
cluster**** the Pinkerton Challenger would turn out, I overnight
published my own simple, straightforward
silicon-that-sounds-approximately-like-tubes-design, built it, tested
it, played it while I waited for Pinkerton to stop wriggling as he
realized he was outmatched, and for the others to crucify him on his
rash promises. My entire love affair with silicon, including drilling
the box, took an afternoon with plenty of sunlight left to cycle my
favourite country lanes. You can read about it at Jute on Amps at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/ in the section 'CAN A TRANSISTOR BE
MADE TO SOUND LIKE TUBE AMP?' or by going directly to:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...dre%20Jute.htm
and
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...dre%20Jute.htm
and you can see the schematic and photo in these three illustrations
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20mGBschem.jpg
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...%20mGBmatr.jpg
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...%20NoBleed.jpg

We still cannot see the Oinkerton Challenger anywhere, because even
it's 'designer', the incompetent and undiscriminating Pinkerton,
wouldn't waste his time building such a crappy 'design'. I'm playing my
miniGainBrick Zip right now...

*****

: And I'm not called Thicko at all, not be anyone
: with a functioning brain..........

You're the only one not have discovered that you are called Thicko, by
everyone. Even the wretched Arny has given up on you, running rather
than trying to defend your consistent bad advice and your pretense to
know anything at all about electronics.

I describe the etymology of Pinkothicko in a contemporaneous post.

: Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

That explains everything about one of the most rigid railroad minds on
the net, which is really saying something on the audio engineering
conferences.

Andre Jute
Interdisciplinarian

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