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<blockquote data-quote="Savant" data-source="post: 189586" data-attributes="member: 546108">Not to start anything... well... who we kiddin, yeah it is //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gifI do something that the average joe CAN&#039;T do.. and it results in the collecting of $7 Billion a year (or more).. so yeah, I want to get paid for helping to contribute to that.. Does that mean I won&#039;t take time out of my schedule to help someone with my knowledge and expertise and do it for free? nope.. I help people all the time (with computer stuff).. do I ask them to help reimburse me the ~$40,000 I spent on getting those tools and equipment to be able to do that? nope.. I&#039;ve been known to spend HOURS (read 6 - 8 at a time) helping someone for free.. SOOOOoooooooo....I think it&#039;s just as wrong to charge someone for something trivial as it is to charge for water at a disaster site... that&#039;s just me..Though, you make kind of a reasonable point (even though I still have issue with the premise) about it being a small addition to the total &#039;investment&#039; of a system.. just not an expense I would think should be made given the ease/triviality of it all .. course, I&#039;d not pay (and haven&#039;t) to see what my dB level is, even though I&#039;m curious.. I figure.. if you can&#039;t hear the difference with the dampner in then you wasted your money (unless you are gonna compete, but then you &#039;should&#039; already know your base before damplifier, or don&#039;t worry about it if you don&#039;t have a base since it doesnt matter now)..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Savant, post: 189586, member: 546108"] Not to start anything... well... who we kiddin, yeah it is [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] I do something that the average joe CAN'T do.. and it results in the collecting of $7 Billion a year (or more).. so yeah, I want to get paid for helping to contribute to that.. Does that mean I won't take time out of my schedule to help someone with my knowledge and expertise and do it for free? nope.. I help people all the time (with computer stuff).. do I ask them to help reimburse me the ~$40,000 I spent on getting those tools and equipment to be able to do that? nope.. I've been known to spend HOURS (read 6 - 8 at a time) helping someone for free.. SOOOOoooooooo.... I think it's just as wrong to charge someone for something trivial as it is to charge for water at a disaster site... that's just me.. Though, you make kind of a reasonable point (even though I still have issue with the premise) about it being a small addition to the total 'investment' of a system.. just not an expense I would think should be made given the ease/triviality of it all .. course, I'd not pay (and haven't) to see what my dB level is, even though I'm curious.. I figure.. if you can't hear the difference with the dampner in then you wasted your money (unless you are gonna compete, but then you 'should' already know your base before damplifier, or don't worry about it if you don't have a base since it doesnt matter now).. [/QUOTE]

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