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Re: [OM] Re: HiFi (was: something else?)

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: HiFi (was: something else?)
From: Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:30:20 +0000
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>Vaughan Rromfield replied:
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>HiFi is also based on established theory. But like the Zone System, HiFi
>Nazi's get into ever diminishing circles n-th degree optimising the
>things they can control, while conveniently ignoring those varibles they
>cannot. In hifi it's oxygen-free copper speaker cables, phase-aligned
>speaker units yada yada, ignoring the recording process itself,
>variations in media, the listening area or most importantly the
>listener; 

Um, you should check out some of the hiend recording companies...they have 
cables as fat as snakes for their equipment and all sorts of other tweeks. If 
makes a huge difference. If you like jazz and blues, check out Mapleshade 
Records: http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/


>Perhaps the debate should be about where that "cerain point" is.

It's all personal preference. If you believe you hear or see a difference, 
then who can argue with you?

>My ears *are* good enough, however, in appropriate circumstances to
>distinguish British loudspeakers from Japanese and American, and nuances
>of photographic image sharpness and tonal gradation, but probably *not*
>Japanese glass from German. 

What is the sound of one silver halide crystal??? <g>


-- 
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
"A witty saying proves nothing."
                -- Voltaire


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