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Re: Thanks for letting me vent...

Dick

One thing you can really count on, is that NOTHING is perfect, particularly hominid derived stuff, will ever even approach perfection, even the concept of perfection is just construct,illusion and delusion and the overall concept of perfection is imperfect in the extreme.

Analog is inherently imperfect, part and parcel of the infinate fascination, challenge and ultimate beauty of music reproduction via vinyl.

Both loudspeaker and tube technology run along the very same lines.

Take a look at the output of a wonderful crank/artist built SET amp
with 30 to 50 yr old NOS tubes on an Occiloscope, it'll often look like shit compared to even a very low rent Best Buy cheesy CD player,
but listening is an entirely different matter altogether !

With loudspeakers the state of the art, mega buck studio monitors
are amazingly linear free of resonances and accurate in the extreme but I don't believe any of them have ever been noted for their musicality.

No record is ever perfect dimensionally ! there is always some compounded degree of dimensional deviation, imperfectly centered spindle holes
hole dimensional variations as well, warping of various types and variations of record thickness, when did the record come out of the
Mother ? early ones are often dosed badly with MRA, much later ones when new plates are needed the grooves are getting (for lack of a better word) fuzzy etc.

But as flawed as these reletively ancient highly imperfect technologies are, there is often seemingly magical synergies involved along with the maturity of these technologies and and more than a bit of hard won design and manufacturing artistry involved, and that's even before we get the opportunity to tweak it to our own needs and desires.

Regards Fred


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