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In Reply to: MP3's, iPod, iTunes etc. may eventually lead to further casualties beyond Atma-Sphere posted by Thom Y on October 18, 2004 at 13:32:03:
Fact is, people with heavy, expensive, hot OTL amps like having heavy, expensive, hot OTL amps more than they like music.A year or so ago I got fed up with all this "high end" bullshit, sold my M60s and my turntable with its stupid $1000 cartridge and now stream all my music from my computer hard drive into a $300 digital amp. I can't say that the sound is better, but I can say it's not noticeably worse.
It's a shame what happened to Mr. Karsten, though. I had several occasions to call him with questions and he was always very helpful.
It's a double shame that a company with such beautiful products -- and some of the AS amps are works of art -- is now run by repulsive creeps who pose third-rate tool company calendar girls next to their butt-ugly speakers.
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enjoy hot, expensive OTL amps AND music. :-)
Ditto, Well spoken Wellfred!I think that we each should have multiple heat producing thermionic bliss generators throughout our homes.
I just as soon heat my house (during the winter anyway) and hold it down on the planets surface while sharing musical bliss with the rest of the world. We might happily drift away otherwise. I need MA3s!
I am not getting HOW MP3s have any thing to do with good music or this forum . . . I suppose each their own.
For what it's worth, MP3 may already be dying. The AAC and WMV formats are making serious headway, both of which have the capacity to sound much more natural than an MP3. The OGG/Vorbis format is also considered superior to MP3, but its adoption has been much slower, due in part to its lower profile, and perceived weakness - being a product of the Open Source Software community.But of course, the main reason that any of these formats have gained popularity is basic convenience. Compressed music files are small, light, easily stored on different media, and of course - easily shared. Were terrabytes of storage and gigabit Internet bandwidth the norm, chances are these formats might never have become popular. But in the recent past, CPU cycles have been a lot cheaper than storage or network bandwidth.
In any event, if you don't like it, don't listen to it. I don't.
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