[BC] Monitoring IBUZ Secondaries - NOT

[Rich Wood]

------ At 04:54 PM 2/8/2007, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: -------

>I know for a fact Kent is quite armed and does care about what happens at
>his stations. I've taken the time to get to know him and have had many
>wonderful chats with him.

Great. This is a relationship business. Glad you've found a kindred soul.

>Maybe if you'd get off your horse and stop hating people 'cuse they disagree
>with you, you'd see that....

The proper term is "high horse" and the term hate is a little 
excessive. Hate assumes you'd wish someone harm. Wikipedia defines 
hatred as "an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or 
antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon, generally attributed to 
a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy the hated object." 
That's an awful lot of energy to expend on someone you've never met.

I don't want to remove Kent. I want him to stay right where he is. 
He's fun to play with.

>I know he's working quite hard every day, just like me.. Thannnkkk youuuu...

You're welcome, I guess, though I'd like you to show me where I 
questioned how hard either of you works. In this case we're talking 
about a philosophy of taking our product and our industry seriously 
enough that we don't condone sloppy operation that drives our 
customers away. We've added IBUZ to the equation and, as dumb as the 
promotion is, it's trying to sell receivers. Those sales depend on 
demonstrating the awesomeness of the secondaries. As the head guy 
mentioned, stations need to be sure they're operating all the time. 
If a customer heard what I heard this morning they'd shut the radio 
off and buy an iPod. If IBUZ is going to work it needs the same 
precision operation you'd demand on your analog signal.

Unfortunately, we're seeing almost every IBUZ receiver returned. 
Tweeter here tells me 100% of their receivers have been returned. 
There's another post here that says Radio Shack has a 100% return 
rate, as well because the consumer believes the radios are deaf. The 
Tweeter store here now only stocks the $600 Polk unit because Polk 
spiffs the salespeople. The Radio Shack guy says they've sold three 
units and all have been returned. It appears the only people who keep 
their radios are radio people willing to install elaborate outdoor 
antennas on a table radio. I can't imagine an ordinary listener doing 
that. With the supplied antennas my Accurian is deaf.

I wish you great luck with the station and many pleasant chats with Kent.

Rich