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In Reply to: RE: Integrated Amp for bedroom System posted by fstein on April 14, 2015 at 04:11:09:
In response to various obnoxious ad hominem statements from the trolls, I think I should offer my creed.
As an audiophile for 50 years (took tube amp design as high school "enrichment", wired up a dynakit aged 16, I will take no backseat to anyone.
You are perfectly free to stick your cat's tail in an AC socket and call yourself an audiophile, but I think that if you do not owe some respect to the music and the musicians who made it you do not have my respect.
My gurus felt that to be called "fidelity" there should be some "faithfullness" to the original signal and to the music.In the case of rock and other processed types of music this may be difficult, as we have not only the gear settings but the engineers to worry about....
As someone who is privileged to hear live music by some of the world's greatest artists on a regular basis, I think I know what it should sound like.Don't tell me that yo-yo ma sounds "better" with 20 db of bass gain or his head in a sousaphone. As I said, you can do whatever you want, just don't call it music.
Don't kid yourself that cranking the EQ up (or down), then spending a fortune on cables to restore some balance to the system, while crying crocodile tears about a $50,000 unobtainable amp du jour makes you an audiophile.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Integrated Amp for bedroom System - fstein 18:14:06 04/15/15 (7)
- Can't you even stick with one moniker or change the subject line? - Dave_K 07:30:40 04/16/15 (1)
- The worse part about the two monikers?... - musetap 10:50:48 04/17/15 (0)
- Your creed seems as disjointed as your various user names... - musetap 21:47:40 04/15/15 (0)
- Your gurus lied. - soulfood 20:24:40 04/15/15 (0)
- I think ... - three_sox 20:10:18 04/15/15 (2)
- RE: Integrated Amp for bedroom System - fstein 20:20:30 04/15/15 (1)
- What? - three_sox 20:26:12 04/15/15 (0)
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