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Re: [motm] [OT] Do you hear what I hear...?

2001-06-15 by mark@indole.net

At 8:30 PM -0400 06/14/01, moog@... wrote:
>
>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 think that's Mark Levinson :)  Anyway, there is a big difference between
a "consumer" stereo and an "audiophile" stereo.  It's just that it becomes
a matter of dimishing returns.

>ivancu@... wrote:
>
>> The main difference is that these "audiophiles" are all looking for the
>>>>same thing; accurate reproduction.  They're using $1,200 interconnect
>>>>cables where the original recording used Belden mic cables with
>> Switchcraft connectors.  Silliness, in my opinion.

They could hook up their speakers with jumper cables from K-mart, and it
wouldn't sound any different, imho.

>> A synthesizer is a musical instrument.  Various components affect the
>> performance, thereby giving character to a particular brand or model.
>> There is no "right" way a synthesizer should sound.

I agree.

Is any of this even remotely on-topic??

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