RE: [Harp-L] Re: Vote for the best harp amp

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good points. I think Dennis meant to include a link to a website where
you can listen to sound clips and vote. Hardly a legit way to determine
which is "best" and again it's subjective so there's no such thing,
except to each person based on their own personal tastes.

Sometimes these things are done just for fun, but end up being harmful.
Sometimes they are done as a ploy to drive traffic to a web site, or
even more sinister reasons such as to plant stuff in your
browser/computer. I'm not saying Dennis was up to any of that, he's one
'o our folks here. Just that it's not a good thing to foster that
holiday cheer :^)

Personally, I hate polls. They tell you basically nothing and they're so
easy to corrupt. Especially internet-based ones. Lord help us with this
new high-tech voting system we're putting in here in the US. Bruce
Schneier has written quite a bit about this (good reading Garry, google
him).

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of M. N.
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:37 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Vote for the best harp amp


Bill wrote: "I think this is a very bad idea. As we recently discussed, 
'best' is very subjective. Some harp-l members make their living selling

these amps. The sound clips might not be 'good' ones, the issues go on."

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I agree. What's more, what tiny percentage of Harp-L posters have heard 
enough of these amps to cast an informed/educated vote? How many people
have 
heard a Meteor AND a Sonny Jr. AND a Harp King AND a Soulful AND a Harp 
Fanatic AND a Fat Dog AND a Kendrick Texas Crude AND a ThunderHarp AND a

Buffalo AND a Harpgear (and a Marble, which was forgotten). I've gone on
record as saying I really dig my Marble Max amp, but I'm not 
about to rate it against a bunch of amps that I have zero hands-on 
experience with.
MN

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