I can normally tell speakers apart from each other, and express a preference.
I can often tell amplifiers apart. When I can, one model sounds often better than another to me.
I often cant tell the difference between one cd player and another. When I can, I can sometimes express a preference, often the difference sounds inconsequential.
I can rarely but sometimes hear a small difference between cables of one sort or another. I very rarely have a preference.
I cant hear any difference between any of the stands that I've had, or putting things on the floor.
On the scale of things, its -50% on the radar!!
Indeed, stand lovers are a subset of a subset of a subset..
The only place Im going with this little post is to say that if stands are measurably different (they probably are, most things are different to each other), doesnt mean I can actually hear it.
If you can and you want to spend money on it, great. If you cant hear a difference, or alternatively dont give a monkeys also great!!
As for Mana - we need whats been said all along - for people with outstanding orders to be communicated with. Its shocking to think that someones paid money and now been ignored... I once bought a sofa from a a big-name leather sofa manufacturer, and they went bust and took my money.
Im still pissed at them 5 years later - by deliberately taking orders they cant fulfill just to nick a customers money made those company directors scum in my view. I hold that type of director in the same opinion as I do a mugger or a burglar.
Suprise suprise the company opened mere weeks later with another company name.... closed again a few months later, and is now open again with another company name... if you go on the A40 in London, you probably pass them every day. I can only presume they will continue this circular activity of ripping people off.
Im not saying this applies to Mana - Im not the customer in question, and cant translate my experience from another shitty company.
What I am saying is that if I were Mana - and aware of this thread, Id be putting the customer right and the public straight immediately.. these questions are very serious.
Cheers
Chris
