Hi all –
A forum member alerted me to this discussion. This is all water under the bridge. Yes, I was a little surprised and embarrassed, and even at little offended at first, when I saw PB’s post a while back that prompted me to leave, but it’s all good. Surprised and embarrassed b/c I didn’t clue in earlier. That was my misunderstanding. I always knew that, as a matter of fact, discussion on the BH forum is focused almost entirely on troubleshooting the kits and the normal types of mods, tube recommendations, etc. But I didn’t clue into the fact that this was the intended focus, and mistakenly thought that my “out there†stuff was kosher and even felt a bit encouraged by the subtitles to the General Discussion and Technical Topics subforums. But PB had indeed hinted to me in the past that my stuff better belonged elsewhere and I failed to pick up on those hints. As even some of the people who love me say, I only pick up on 80% of the obvious.
As for briefly feeling a bit offended, well, that’s on me and the feeling has long passed. I’m a big boy. After dusting myself off and putting my big boy pants back on I realized that PB was right (except about me belonging on the Tweakers forum – sheesh
). My stuff does belong better elsewhere. And more importantly, I never thought that anything PB posted was intended to insult. So we’re all good!
And just b/c I can’t help myself, I’ll mention that I continue to pursue my esoteric stuff. I’ve been unusually busy with work this year, but I plan to get to my experiments with taming the Q of my grid chokes and playing around with resistor bias in my rebuilt Kaiju later this summer. @PJ: I am hoping I can hit you up with the odd question every now and again over on AA. I’ll keep the questions non-BH focused and more general so as not to offend the rules against hawking commercial interests on non-commercial subforums – BH doesn’t sell the stuff I’m playing with, in any event, but just so there’s no question that it’s 100% above board.
Lastly (this has turned into a retirement speech), there really are no hard feelings. I’ve learned tons from the BH crew and I remain very appreciative.
Aha! There’s my hat.
cheers and all the best, Derek
