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In Reply to: MagikDiamond posted by OMalley on March 10, 2008 at 07:48:33:
Even if it's actually proved to be a re-housed, re-badged, epoxied DL.103, you still haven't pinned the tail on the donkey.
What you'll find next in the likely-chain-of-ready-cover-stories .....
Weasel-words & wriggle-room !
Goes something like this............
You : That's a cartridge made by a big corporate name that retails at $200 and probably sells wholesale in blocks of 24 for maybe $60.
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : No it's not, it's painstakingly assembled by master craftsmen, who require six weeks of matching and testing to make just one fully approved unit.
You : You mean till you sort thru a mountain of sixty dollar units from Denon and finally pick one to paste into your preposterous aluminum shell ?
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : You obviously have no Ear for the finer transducers in the Exclusive High End Market, and quite clearly know nothing about current edge-of-the-art design procedure.
You : Tell me it's not a Denon motor in a fancy matchbox.
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : Ask Van den Hul where he gets his basic motor. If he's feeling spunky he'll tell you outright, Benz Micro. Ask Lyra where they get theirs -- ScanTech. Maybe our magical diamond does trace part of it's 'Dna' to a larger supplier. So what ?
You : What part of it's Dna --- everything but the Shell ?? Is that a five-thousand dollar matchbox you glue it into ?
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : We like to refer to it as "molecular bonding". And that matchbox is expensively Cnc-milled. Look. You can go on and on about this but we are actually proud and honored to be a new part of a standing tradition, a new and vital branch of an old craft.
You : You're saying it. It's a Denon DL103 and you're saying it, but in corporate speak. Right. Right ?
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : We've got five lawyers on hold for every idea you've got. As long as we claim to have done something --- ANYTHING -- in the period between removing this thing from it's Denon packaging and slapping the sucker into --ahem, bonding the elements into the new housing ---- We Are Off The Hook .
Rant and rave, go on, have a cow. We don't care. If we sell one each month we're paying the rent on the stockroom where the teenaged intern --ahem, ... where the Master Craftsman .. "works his magic".
You : Crap, if this is any example of how High End audio 'works' or thinks ---
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : You are an internet nuisance. We have much more important things to do, like padding down the hearing of a reviewer with cases of fifty-year-old Napoleon Brandy. So Eff Off, little man.
You : I can't believe this. What if this is just a small fraction of the way it actually goes down in the audio biz ? What if we're all caught between the lies they tell us to sell it and the lies we tell ourselves after we've bought it ... ? What if ....??
Alarm Clock : Rrrrring ! Rrrrring ! Ring !
You : Whew !! What an unpleasant dream ! Well, up and at em, time to get those credit cards paid off !
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : (whispers) There's no place like home. No place like home.
Auntie Em : There's a tornado comin, pa ! Better get the ducks and chickens in the cellar !!
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : (barely audible now) No place like home. No place.
ToTo : Woof ! Woof !
Beneficient Audio Manufacturer : (hisses at dog) Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain !
ToTo : Woof ! Seriously, dude, Woof Woof !!
You : There's no place like Home. No place......
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- even if it's proved beyond a doubt ... ../long - J.D. 11:18:27 03/10/08 (1)
- I've got those sleepies in my eyes - OMalley 11:28:10 03/10/08 (0)
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