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In Reply to: RE: Yeah, that AD is pretty bad. posted by jbbikerider@usa.net on April 12, 2015 at 20:11:34
I'm sure the speaker sounds fantastic but Bromo' is right. The ad is so patrician it's practically smoking a pipe and wearing slippers. 2015? They're burying themselves.
Do you want to be appealed to in this way?
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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Ah yes, a pipe -- or a fine cigar -- the slippers, a smoking jacket or silk robe, a beautiful woman, and perhaps a wee drop of single malt -- elements of a great evening. To Hell with the speakers!
Would remind me of a much better, happier time when you were not rushed to meet some deadline, read and see the world trying destroy itself worse than ever, at the airline terminal the customer still mattered and was treated as such, when a car was just that and not a load of electronics that cost a fortune to display and a replacement tail light lens cost $2 and not $500, when in the evening you and the family would stroll the neighborhood kids in hand without fear. Shall I go one. Oh, and engineers like Saul, Frank, Peter, Biggs, Smith, Hafler, and many others were engineering and making high quality audio components and they were being manufactured in the US. Oh, and you could go the Kalamazoo and order a Checker Marathon and go to the local car dealer and really built that new car the way you wanted without paying huge penalties.
Yes, give me ads that look like they were penned by Fisher during their tube heyday as that ad reminds me of just that. The new ads generate no positive emotions in me; making me want to enjoy an afternoon at the audio salon sipping some wine while sitting with a knowledgeable sales person who was not reminding himself of what to push that day or calculating a commission while totally ignoring the customer. If anything, just the opposite since they simply confuse me with numbers and giving me the feeling I had to already know it all when I went in to see some order taker posing as a knowledgeable salesperson who in reality does not understand the purpose of the button labeled "Power".
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
As idealized in your post and in these LP covers.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
... I believe people who delude themselves to believe how much better things were in the 50s/60s are remembering the past through rose coloured memory cells.
I always find it ironic when folks muse online about how much better the 50s/60s were.
What a time when not all citizens in your country or mine could even vote! (something to get all warm and fuzzy about I'm sure.)
Nothing beats the here and now.
IMHO todays audio equipment stands head & shoulders above anything from the 50s/60s. There is nothing wrong with nostalgia but reality beats it hands down.
Life's good, enjoy it!
d:o)
Smile
Sox
"Nothing beats the here and now."
That's good since it's all we got!
And it IS good indeed, better than the 50's & 60's in every way. Been there, done that, wouldn't go back for all the tea in China.
Rick
how you romanticize the past...rightly, it seems.
roger wang
I'm with you on this, Brian -- all the way.
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