Probably because they were too chicken to kick off a major magazine editor. But me, I'm just a nobody to them, so when somebody started a thread about my camcorder comparison page because they recognized a frame grab from one of the members camcorder test shots, I chimed in and soon the owner of the site decided to use that as an excuse to delete my account. The sordid details are
here if anyone wants to see how idiotic their actions were. That whole mess even spilled on to DVinfo.net, of which I was NOT a member, ever. That forum PRE-BANNED me from ever joining, as a result. I was going to sue them for libel, but then after thinking about it, I realized I'd already given them too much credibility as it was.
Another forum, I think it was Home Theater Shack, after I'd been a member for over a year, suddenly informed me that I could not have a signature that contained a URL to my livelihood. I yanked all my posts and self-banned, when they demonstrated an unwillingness to stop that nonsense. I'd had the same sig line since joining a year earlier and they one day suddenly decided to tell me it was disallowed. Anyways, they're a bunch of bible-thumpers over there.. which I discovered after analyzing their ToS, which still doesn't explicitly ban commercial URLs in taglines, but has that buried deep into scores of paragraphs. I called them out on it and they refused to fix it, so good riddance to them too.
So, now that I have that off my chest... I think your offer is most gracious and I thank you for that. I guess that means I need to write up a well-defined announcement stating the purpose of the group, the nature of the meetings, places and times. I'm open to suggestions about what to include in this announcement, to give it the best chance of garnering interest and success.
I do know of one other audiophile in the Meriden area.. I spoke to him on the phone about his Wilsons about five years ago--he was a friend of one of the tech advisors at the radio station where I did engineering services at the time. It was kind of an awkward conversation because I had stopped following most audio publications after 1982, and had not heard of a new company called Wilson at that time. But at least I had first-hand knowledge of one other audiophile in the Meriden, CT area. I'm sure there are others, but many may be secluded or reclusive types. I live with a mile of some of the wealthiest people in America.. down along the lake. The president of a major toy mfgr, the president of CBS Records (met him in 1979 through a mutual friend), a famous television personality, etc. Whether any of these folks are audiophiles, I don't know, but they certainly could afford to be.
My wish is to find other like-minded audiophiles and spend time together auditioning recordings, talking about gear, and watching movies.
It's seems that audiophiles around here are about as rare as parrot owners, which I am, too.
