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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:50:08 +0300, Fella <nosp@m.here> wrote:

>Arny Krueger wrote:
>
>> 
>> Good question. People like Pinkerton and I tell people that
>> CD players tend to sound very much alike.
>
>You impose your misconceptions upon people, you try to rob them of their 
>freedom of choice and preference, you try to rob them of their potential 
>audio enjoyment.

Actually no, we're providing them with useful information which could
save them enough money to buy better speakers.........

> It's almost criminal. There is almost a touch of evil 
>in ferstlers cynicism of "everything sounds the same you dumb tweakos" 
>attitude, for instance.
>
>What's more, you people seem to be going after the high-end industry. 

Yup, that's because it's full of incompetent con artists like Mark
Levinson, George Cardas, Yves Bernard Andre and Peter Qvortrup.

>You'd be happy if they all just buckled up and whithered away into 
>bankruptcy.

Yup.

> I don't want my kids to have to listen to music from wicked 
>sounding metallic assembly line crap gear produced with only 
>cost-effectiveness in mind and nothing else.

Pity that, since it sounds just the same as *well designed* high end
gear such as you can buy from Meridian or Krell. And you could then
buy really good speakers, which actually *do* make a difference.

>> Therefore they
>> should make their CD player choices based other factors that
>> are more important to them.
>
>Thus you mislead them.

Nope, that's top-drawer advice.
>> 
>> Unfortunately we've got the technologically backward
>> nay-sayers like Fella, who want people to believe that their
>> are mind-boggling audible differences between CD players,
>> amplifiers and everything else.
>
>I wouldn't go so far as to say "mind-boggling" .. When or if a piece of 
>equipment introduces mind-boggling huge differences to the music, it is 
>IMHO, somewhat "improper". It almost leads to means taking over the end, 
>that is, we have audio equipment in order to be able to listen to music, 
>yes, but with an amp like the BAT, you have music in order to be able to 
>listen to the luscious, extravagant, grandiose sound of the amp!

You just crucified your own argument. You're supposed to be listening
to the *musical performance*, you cretin!

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering