Since we've been looking back through the sordid history of this thread, it might be a good time to toss out a theory that's been on my mind for quite some time now. It's not directly related to the Clever Little Clock, memory foil, or cream electret, but is instead related to the reason the thread came into existence.

Here's my theory: both HiFiSoundGuy and GoodSound are the same person, and that person came here for the express purpose of marketing (yep, there's that word again) these products.

Wow. Right? Let's dig a bit deeper.

HiFiSoundGuy arrived in the saloon on March 2, 2006. His very first post suggested that he'd placed an order for an RR2150. His second post suggested replacing capacitors in the Model 990 with Sonicaps. His third post was the start of this thread. At the time, the RR2150 was backordered several months, so he could freely stick to the "ordered a 2150" story for some time without having to worry about being asked to make specific comments about the product.

Now, shortly before this all transpired, there was some interesting online discussion of guerilla marketing (online gaming comic Penny Arcade had a series of posts and even a comic about it, and even at one point offered a link to a blog site called The Consumerist that aparently kept track of such things along with other consumer-related topics). Could HiFiSoundGuy be a guerilla marketer? He took a little time to establish himself in the forum, even claiming to have made a purchase from the company, and then set out to relate stories of a wonderful product he'd used. That is the precise formula that guerilla marketers use. And as the thread continued, he stuck close to that formula: repeating marketing information from the manufacturer, continuously insisting that the products worked as advertised, and suggesting that others try the products out.

Then HiFiSoundGuy vanished. Why? Well, eventually RR2150 backorders from early March were all filled, and he could no longer claim to have ordered one unless he actually had . That's when he faded away. Then, months later, GoodSound arrived. His first post was in the Clever Little Clock thread, with a brief aside the next day to tell us what speakers he uses (thus helping to establish some audio "cred" by having speakers). These are not the same speakers used by HiFiSoundGuy (he had Polks, not JBL's). And yet, the two individuals have much in common. First, the name: both are built around "Sound" (again, a good way to suggest that they are fans of audio) and both use capitalization without spaces to splice words together. Second, their support for the same three products: Clever Little Clock, memory foil, and cream electret. Third, their posting style (their "accent" for lack of a better word) is very similar. Read their posts some time, without looking at anything else in the thread. Note the way they present their arguments: they re-state the idea that you have to try these, they re-state that if a few folks just tried them they'd be convinced, and they do little else. Look at the word choice, sentence structure, and everything - if you didn't have posters' names to go by, you would assume all of their posts were written by the same person.

Delius has come to this forum mainly because he has a ready-made audience with which to disagree, but his excuse was to ride to the defense of two innocent, caring individuals who had separately offered some suggestions that could help us improve the sound and picture quality of our systems. But if those innocent, caring individuals are a single person who came here only to try to drum up sales for a company other than the one that hosts this forum and did so by misrepresenting himself, then how much defense do they (does he) actually need?