No.

For those who don’t know, I do my own thing and run Liquid Audio in my own way. I’m not leading anything or anyone. Thankfully, this approach is popular with intelligent, thoughtful customers and is the opposite of that which leads to ruined equipment and court cases.

This is no accident, of course. I was also fortunate to inherit honesty, integrity and professionalism, and I’m focused on doing good work and supporting my customers. Not everyone shares this philosophy or approach, however, and this is where the rubber hits the road.

A section of this industry consistently delivers terrible work and damaged and destroyed equipment. These people don’t want to accept responsibility for this because it reflects so very badly upon them. Instead, they would much rather have you believe that it isn’t that damaged and destroyed equipment, terrible reviews, lost court cases, and incoherent, unprofessional rants at customers generating their poor reputations, it’s me!

Liquid Mike, repairing equipment, saving classic hi-fi gear from the scrap heap, NOT adding to it, educating the hi-fi community, doing my best to raise the profile of classic hi-fi equipment and help people – it’s all THAT guy’s fault!

This is obviously a much easier story to live with if you’re one of the crooks doing the damage. The work I’ve documented as a community service in the Hall of Shame, the unhappy customers who’ve gone to court and won, the destroyed hi-fi gear my colleagues and I have documented and had to pick up the pieces of, clearly show that there is no conspiracy.