John said:

"My question is, what are the few of us with good hearing going through all this turmoil for, when the majority don't even know the difference. JohnB"

This is what keeps me up at night John....AND keeps me trying to get info with threads like this and the "omni-directional mikes" one.

Last year I went down to a Toronto venue where some of my friends were playin' bluegrass. The sound was so completely atrocious I left after twenty minutes. They had a guy sitting at the board who didn't stop twirling knobs for five seconds. The next day I asked onr of the players how he could stand it. His response was "the beer's free." There are times I just KNOW I'm from another planet. Thank gawd there's some folks here from the SAME planet!

Rick