'just ran through [a bunch] some mails regarding cones, dacs or how was it phrased?, wrong-planet nonsense trying to come to speed as a newcomer...
Oh well, I lived with Celestion's SL600 copper unit happily for years, then delved into Infinity's EMITs for awhile (both fantastic) and meanwhile landed with QLN that use "I don't care" doped cloth-based cones...
In forty years I have spent too much time and wasted too much money on running off to audition "what's new." I have good [let's say "brass, maybe silver;" certainly not gold] ears but I moreso, have an exceptional memory. I 'hear' sonic blueprints from concerts and auditionings from way back, e.g., in the 60's. My friends appreciate this.
What I want to impress is that untill I finally got my head right as to 'priorities' in an "illusionary reproduction chain" (I have a psychologist friend who literally writes-off his hifi with the taxman under this heading - to the tune, for hardware, of Euro 80,000), I was spinning my wheels.
I grew up under the fallacy that the speakers (i.e., "end" of the audio reprodcution 'chain') were 'most' important - read in Audio mag, USA, ca 1960 that I sort of believed for about five years. Then I spent close to 20 years thinking it was "the source...." Meanwhile I think it is the amplifier, where I am today. I'll not go further into detail unless asked to, that is, "why" I belive this so,...
Whatever resembles "the real thing" most is 'right.' I thought I knew this when auditioning a stereo valve amp ('no way I'm going to say which) that gave me goose pimples all the time. I remembered the 'mono' check and noticed that a mono signal gave a great stereo sound and there I was, back to transistors... I'm generalizing here. Remeber the HiFi-trade-fair joke?: The hifi system or the original and the original came in 2nd place...
Meanwhile I have a playback system that resembles "sort of" a non-flashy performance, depending upon the recording. Unfortunately I have no "absolute phase" toggle switch - THERE is, in my opinion, whether CD or LP, a very important ingredient in "getting back to Molly...," as a bluesman might phrase it.
Cheers!
John
Oh well, I lived with Celestion's SL600 copper unit happily for years, then delved into Infinity's EMITs for awhile (both fantastic) and meanwhile landed with QLN that use "I don't care" doped cloth-based cones...
In forty years I have spent too much time and wasted too much money on running off to audition "what's new." I have good [let's say "brass, maybe silver;" certainly not gold] ears but I moreso, have an exceptional memory. I 'hear' sonic blueprints from concerts and auditionings from way back, e.g., in the 60's. My friends appreciate this.
What I want to impress is that untill I finally got my head right as to 'priorities' in an "illusionary reproduction chain" (I have a psychologist friend who literally writes-off his hifi with the taxman under this heading - to the tune, for hardware, of Euro 80,000), I was spinning my wheels.
I grew up under the fallacy that the speakers (i.e., "end" of the audio reprodcution 'chain') were 'most' important - read in Audio mag, USA, ca 1960 that I sort of believed for about five years. Then I spent close to 20 years thinking it was "the source...." Meanwhile I think it is the amplifier, where I am today. I'll not go further into detail unless asked to, that is, "why" I belive this so,...
Whatever resembles "the real thing" most is 'right.' I thought I knew this when auditioning a stereo valve amp ('no way I'm going to say which) that gave me goose pimples all the time. I remembered the 'mono' check and noticed that a mono signal gave a great stereo sound and there I was, back to transistors... I'm generalizing here. Remeber the HiFi-trade-fair joke?: The hifi system or the original and the original came in 2nd place...
Meanwhile I have a playback system that resembles "sort of" a non-flashy performance, depending upon the recording. Unfortunately I have no "absolute phase" toggle switch - THERE is, in my opinion, whether CD or LP, a very important ingredient in "getting back to Molly...," as a bluesman might phrase it.
Cheers!
John
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