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In Reply to: RE: Nothing is explained on either site posted by Frihed89 on January 18, 2009 at 22:53:39
prose?
I liked Moncrief's essays but when he went into advertising mode, well, I've not read anything like it until ... TODAY. WOW!!! I gotta have one!
Mr. Wright and Mr. Rasmussen (even though I detect more Wright in this writing) have found the true way so many times that one figures the next step is forming some new kind of religion, like the Scientologists.
I like and respect Mr. Wright. I bought his books and found much good information in them, even though the phono preamp book does not really tell you how to build the device you were told it would. I asked a question on the forum once about heater-cathode relationships and was told there are "trade secrets". Well, yes, of course there are. But you SOLD this as a manual, not as a conceptual guide. So, having been given a grain of salt I have voluntarily taken one whenever I read this stuff coming from Australia or Switzerland (has not made any difference)
I remember going to my first Lebanese wedding and tasting honeyed chicken. It was a revelation and never experienced nor even thought I'd like chicken and honey together. Can I put the experience into words? Or does our language, indeed any language, simply have limiations. That's why we need to understand other forms of language, such as body language and perhaps the most elevated language of all, music.Sometimes we TRY to use language to describe those superior experiences and the efforts to describe Terra Firma has been valiant attempts, not just simple and crude forms of advertising jingoistic waffle. We will leave that to the mass advertising corporates. No wonder that, being constantly exposed ad nauceum, we are cynical at the lastest "break-through" - so much so, when it really does happen (and not just part of some news cycle or the pressure to produce copy in an hi-fi magazine), the eyes roll in their sockets and we look inward and not outwards AND miss the point.
Terra Firma has to be experienced, it's simple as that. The rest, as they say, is mere words.
So you want a no-hype explanation? Terra Firma is about achieving the goal of controlling noise at the point of digital to analogue conversion and that any noise, ANALOGUE noise, especiallly wide-band ANALOGUE noise, will be converted into a form of jitter that is the worst kind of audible jitter (and that not all forms of jitter are equal). That is NOT a mumbo-jumbo explanation. It is about eliminating the WORST-KIND of jitter. The next bit is to actually experience it, and until then, maybe listen to those who have. Or go back to reading hi-fi magazines where-in ALL truth lies? Give me a break!
Edits: 02/26/09
Indeed....which reminds me of the nun Wu Jincang, who asked the Sixth Patriarch Huineng,
"I have studied the Mahaparinirvana sutra for many years, yet there are many areas i do not quite understand. Please enlighten me."
The patriarch responded,
"I am illiterate. Please read out the characters to me and perhaps I will be able to explain the meaning."
Said the nun,
"You cannot even recognize the characters. How are you able then to understand the meaning?"
To which the patriarch again responded,
"Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon’s location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger, right?"
Edits: 03/20/09
Hi !
I´m pretty sure that the secret of the new power supply is a memory backup capacitor ( "goldcap", "supercap" etc. ) I have tried them with succes in similar applications.
Any comments ?
Thorsten Larsen
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