MOTM

In a message dated 6/14/01 5:23:33 PM, moog@... writes:

<< You should come over and hear my all tube audio system or Pauls Levinson. I
would bet my MOTM you would change your mind. >>

I've been in professional audio for around 20 years.  I've heard some of the 
best recording studio monitoring systems in the world.  Have been to CES and 
sat in the finest audio salons.  My current favorite would be Sovereign 
2001's with Cello electronics.  Yes, some of these systems provide great 
aural experiences.  But there is definitely a huge amount of snake oil with 
cables, connectors, and silly things like isolators for solid state amp 
chassis (oh yeah, those vibrating transistors!).  And terms like "skin 
effect" used to describe audio behavior in speaker wires (any of these people 
ever take Physics 101?).

My favorite are the "audiophile" ac cables.  Most are lighting instrument 
cables (teflon jacketed individual wires in a heat-insulating wrap) with 
heavy plugs, sold for hundreds of dollars.  Are you supposed to pull out all 
the Romex in your home too for REALLY good sounding ac power?

By the way, Romex makes EXCELLENT speaker cables as long as you don't have to 
re-route them.

Flame off.  I know that the "audiophiles" will argue all of this.  Funny 
enough, NOBODY that I know in the pro audio industry, considers themselves to 
be audiophiles.  Most of us just trade stories about silly audiophile gear.  
Hey, we just produce the equipment that this music is created on in the first 
place.  Guess it is up to the listener to make it that much better than it 
was recorded (what?!).

Ivan