We're cool, Chess.
I admit I'm a little gunshy about offending anyone these days. A few months back I got banned from a different forum for daring to disagree with one of the moderators about a few things. I wasn't particulalry sarcastic or impolite, either. Just tried to show that alternate points of view could be legitimate.
Being banned wasn't so bad. As we all know, there's plenty of other places to play. But evidently the guy follows me around now and monitors my posts, because the first and only time in months I even made an allusion to his forum (carefully neither mentioning him nor his board), he suddenly shows up and goes into an insane tirade about how I'm essentially the most despicable person on earth and how I was masterminding some sort of conspiracy of evil against all that was good and wonderful on the internet!
The irony is, probably only six people even knew what i was talking about in my original comment, but in his ardent fervor to defend his "good name", now probably at least 100 got to witness first hand a raving paranoid in action.
Going back and rereading the thread, I notice now that it wasn't Chessrock who made the blanket statement "2nd order good, 3rd order bad." It was someone else. Sorry. I should reread more often before opening my mouth! My instinctive red flags go up when someone makes blanket statements that come across as dogmatic, especially when there are real life examples that contradict the dogma.
That's actually one of the things that got me in trouble at the other place. Because the guy was so narrow minded in his pronouncements, I couldn't help but occasionally politely point out certain logical flaws in his belief system. (e.g.
I believe all inexpensive gear is, by definition, crap. Even if i've never heard it or tried it. And I will continue to say it's crap until such time as the manufacturer wants to send me a free unit to review, in which case i might reconsider. And anyone who says I shouldn't condemn gear I've never heard is obviously a troll sent by the manufacturers or dealers or other mainstream reviewers who want to silence me. Well, i won't be silenced. And I'll make sure they won't pollute my wonderful forum. Their threads will be deleted. They'll be banned. They can go crying to their mothers "Mommee, Mommmeee! Wah! Wah! Wah!" , or they can come here and I'll slap the taste out of their mouths. rant rant rave rave foam at mouth etc.)
Well, you get the picture. (The above is a paraphrase, not a direct quote. The actual quotes would be a lot worse.)
Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I'm certainly not comparing ANYONE at homerec to him. Just that I'm really not looking to turn anyone else into a lifelong enemy. One weirdo in my life is enough!
I'm just questioning Oktava's deliberate introduction of third harmonics, and what possible effect they might have -- good or bad. That's all. The fact that you like the mic has been noted, though, so thank you.
