Doctorjohn Cheaptubeaudio: Audio Reviews and More

For Comments
Comments are welcome any time. After moderation, they shall be published.

For Questions

As a rule, don't forget to tell me what you use, and what do you think of the sound, and reservations if any!

A. Questions related to an article/review

(1) Click on Comment (under each article) and post your comment or question; (2) After moderation, the comment/question is published and answered under the article. Hopefully, my response shall be prompt, but give it a few days. (3) Don't forget to tell me what you use, and what do you think of the sound, and reservations if any! My answers may not mean much if I don't know what you're using and how you feel.

B. Questions NOT related to an article/review

If your question has nothing to do with any of the articles, just pick any article, no matter how irrelevant, and post your question. I will get it anyway, but I won't post it as a comment. Instead, if I can answer the question, I'll post both the question and answer in the Reply Section below, in Letters to the Editor-Reply. Again, don't forget to tell me what you use, and what do you think of the sound, and reservations if any! But not all questions get this treatment. Some are just too general to be answered.

C. Email (if necessary)
If your suggestion or comment is more of a private nature, you can email me at:

cheaptube@hotmail.com

Unless the subject is very close to my heart, I tend to be quite tardy in replying to individuals, and replying by email can be cumbersome. So, only if absolutely necessary.

If you click Flagcounter you would notice an anomaly: very very few hits from China (accounting for <0.1%) . Blogspot, one of the world's largest, is not accessible in China, which is highly unfortunate even if I write mostly in English.

I have been participating on the internet in various hifi sites for almost 20 years. Looking at things now makes one really weary of the word "progress".

In many ways I miss the earlier USENET newsgroups the most. Posting is super fast and the lack of picture hosting is a real blessing in many ways. Things were simpler then.

Then I created my own Yahoo Group (see link), but I really find the format cumbersome, and now only maintain the site for archival purposes. Who knows, one day I may re-vamp the thing, but too little time....

A few years ago, before the establishment of this blog, I had been active in review33, a site that still a useful second-hand forum (link below). Unfortunately, HK is small and people actually get to meet, which is NOT an advantage for an internet forum. The traffic evolved into 同仁活動, Chinese for insiders' game. There were few honest opinions, and feuds and flames developed over the littlest things. Then there were splinter groups, IMITATORS that are of even more of a 同仁活動 insider nature. That diluted everything and what got lost is HiFi. It would be fair to say most of the forums in HK now contain more junk than value.

Since then I have concentrated on my Blog. It is nice to be able to archive everything well and not let things get covered by waves of garbage. Writing articles take lot more than than posting in forums. Many have long periods of gestation and repeated revisions and editing. I hope you enjoy them.

在此閑話 Hi Fi, 清淡為主。讀時之樂與怒，在乎不在乎，看您自己。

覺得還可以的話，大可用心寫點東西，發表在那裡不重要，會是貢獻。但是，漫不經心地轉載或亂貼圖片，可以不必了吧！世界上啥都缺，就不缺二手報導和垃圾！