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You have to live inside the guy's head to comprehend and process this:
"Contrast by triangulation: Vega, Hex, Platinum.
Though the Platinum quite upped the bill in these games, it didn't set up shop in a higher performance tier. I don't know how much coin it'd take to get there against my decks. What was clear? Antelope's $5.500 were insufficient. Dealing instead in minor sideways manoeuvres, the Platinum staged a tad deeper and with greater top-end illumination to have a narrow edge on layering and classic far-behind-the-speakers perspective. The Vega's slightly richer more saturated colors arose as though on a virtual gloss display like a modern Mac's. Zodiac colors were a bit more muted like a matte display. Though tone density differs from color temperature, like all other hifi qualities they intersect. Hence the Vega's take paralleled its darker colors with a perception of slightly greater physicality and contrast. The latter wasn't dynamic contrast but what's casually though fittingly called image pop. For that and the same 348kHz/DSD128 compatibility at a lower price, some could find it more attractive. The moment one seeks preamp replacement however, the Platinum's full-scale useable volume wins. Add headphone drive and Igor Levin's twin boxer gets ahead not on sound (here it's equivalent if not identical to the Vega) but on all'round featurization"
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This guy has so much jargon working that it takes a translator for the average person to figure out what he's saying. All those visual metaphors come off as silly and pretentious.
Nt
I am a long time photographer who shot lots of different types film.
Remember HP used his "Kodachrome etched" quote on many occasion to highlight the
"richness" of the sonic presentation
Des
You have to ponder why he would choose technical jargon from another field ... tone density, color temperature, image pop ... for comparative analogy?
Great for the long time photographer, but for the rest ... ?
Never trust an Atom, they Make Up everything!
Visual analogies are frequently used in audio reviews/descriptions. Anyone who has read any TV/video reviews in the last decade or so should be familiar with the terms "color temperature" and "image pop".
jack
"Anyone who has read any TV/video reviews in the last decade or so should be familiar with the terms 'color temperature' and 'image pop'."
Well that does exclude me, perhaps I'm a little odd that way, never thought about it ... I got a nice [too me] Sony flat screen 4 or 5 years ago and won't likely even think about it again until it dies. :(
Never trust an Atom, they Make Up everything!
Such is subjective audio: the more outlandish the pronouncements the more beliveable they are. It's great fun!
Nt
nt
In this case, I don't think so.
The Tower of Babel was not so called because the peoples' speech was confounded; it was called that because the high tower was meant to (symbolize, at least) the approach to El, the Babylonian Sky God... .
One of the martyrs of the Baha'ai faith is called "The Bab," in that he is thought to be the Gate to salvation.
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The quoted review excerpt reads like an "L.A. Noir" parody of Middle Period Jon Valin, back when he was writing mystery novels.
Or perhaps he himself is moonlighting?
JM
I had no idea that he had done that. Thanks.
Jonathan Valin - Wikipedia
Now I much better understand Valin's style and his penchant for the long run-on sentences, complete with parentheses, dashes and various other modes. He can make a paragraph consist of just one sentence.
We all may remember when Charles Hansen took Valin to task over the "powerful cross currents in a tide pool" and his defence. Or maybe not. ;-)
Regards,
Geoff
at least using that moniker.
What ever happened to the NEW Absolute Sound? Wasn't he somehow involved in that fiasco as well?
...I found one of his novels, "The Music Lovers", about a murder mystery with an audio club as a backdrop on a close-out table at a bookstore and bought it.
It didn't make me want to read any more of them.
Sorry, I was snorting.
Mike: Here's the bad news:
That one was far and away the best of the bunch.
JM
> That one was far and away the best of the bunch.
I checked out ssveral of Jonathan Valin's Harry Stoner mystery novels back
in the day. I thought the best was "Life's Work," about an NFL player and
how men who are trained to be professionally violent have difficulty
leaving that violence in the locker room when they go back into the world
outside the stadium.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
...saving the entire set alongside your RCA Shaded Dog LPs?
I think JV would be impressed that you read all of them!
Daniel
"a confused noise, typically that made by a number of voices..." Seems to be an apt enough description of the review. Audiophillia is better off with fewer verbal gymnastics, not more...IMO, of course.
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Never trust an Atom, they Make Up everything!
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