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"In a world that doesn't linger too long on anything, we're trying to bring a bit of ritual back into listening to music," said Adam Sieff, the marketing and sales director at Gearbox. "Take a deep breath, sit down, take the music a little bit more seriously - and enjoy it."
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Since the Japanese, in my opinion, take music and recorded music much more seriously than most in the world. The serious Japanese audiophile is a gift to the world in my most unhumble opinion.
I see nothing in that photo that looks anything like any LIVING VOICE loudspeaker I have ever seen and the thought that what is there cost one-half million dollars makes me think someone is very easily taken to the cleaners!
I like the idea since there is no doubt most people, especially here in the dumbed down United States have no idea this kind of sound is even possible. Now the big question is can they even recognize it as something better? I worry they could not even sit still long enough to realize.
You go to concerts in clubs and half of the folks are carrying on conversations and half the folks are playing with the phones. Needless to say there are plenty playing with phones while carrying on (idiotic) conversations so there are always a few who are actually listening to the music in spite of the distractions.
I would expect this same behaviour in a "listening club" in the US.
A nice start- Les.
don't poo-poo the equipment - the equipment is not the point! It's the entertainment value - that I first heard when I was 12 years old at a neighbor's house - a group of kids 16 and under, a Dad (with terminal cancer - we didn't know that then) operating the system, wiping the record, carefully setting the need in the entry groove, raising the volume, and sound appearing from the loudspeakers with a full and honest to the instruments sound. Equally important, this family (The Gemmills) embraced music, owned & played multiple instruments. French Horn, Coronet & baritone, Strings (Cello-to Violin), piano and organ, flute and I'm sure many others. As I was 2 years younger than their youngest - and that I was invited into this environment (not just a kid), left a lifelong impression and allowed music to be an important part of my life.
As Audio Reproduction Enthusiasts we should care less about whether they use Walmart cables and 40 year old loudspeakers. It is the "art" of reproduction we should embrace. As with any form of art, it takes on many shapes, forms, and colors.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
I saw that piece. Klipsch LaScala the last word??? I don't know.
Yes your point is right but this was written by a non-audiophile journalist who doesn't appear to know that valves and tubes are the same thing (and I thought that the NYT fact checked everything). Mind you the Living Voice system would be more as described, especially in regard to emotional connection. Hearing their best system moved me to involuntary tears. Twice. Once when I heard the music and again when I learned the price.
In a way using the word "audiophiles" in the subject line isn't quite on target. It is hipsters who are going to the clubs. They are "civilians" and until they happened upon this trend they probably didn't know that any loudspeaker costing more than a few hundred gbp even existed. For them the La Scalas ARE the best speakers in the world. Until their first night at the club most likely they coveted those little Bose cube thingies. A tiny number of them might look further but, being hipsters, once they find that the hobby entails racks and wires and totally screws up their minimalist interiors they will, no doubt, lose interest.
Still, a positive thing.
Cynicism and snobbery will kill this hobby. Some around here are apt to think they were born audiophiles, and started off as all-knowing gurus!
These clubs are to be encouraged.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Taking a look at the equipment in the photo and reading the article, this is basically just another trendy retro movement where a bunch of young hipsters are reliving the past as they think it was. Big Klipsch speakers and tube amps look pretty dang impressive to them.
Translation: "You damn kids get off my lawn!!"
Ease up. People are having fun listening to music on a good system. Sometimes things are exactly what they seem to be.
> > Translation: "You damn kids get off my lawn!!"
That's not what I said nor meant. I simply find it fascinating to watch a younger generation rediscover things that had been fading away. (And, yes, sometimes they think they've invented something new.)
I keep a couple of dead (but intact) vacuum tubes at my work desk as trinkets along with the family photos and other personal items. Amazing how many people have no clue what they are.
We did the same thing to our elders back in our youth.
A lot of times it is funny. Some years back I remember listening to the Tito Puente song "Oye Como Va" and having someone come up to me and ask about this "cover" of the Santana song. Not sure he believed me when I explained that Tito wrote the song and the Santana version was actually the "cover". ;-)
I suppose it is far better than 12in active Behringers.
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