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In Reply to: RE: NYT: Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London posted by Les Anderson on October 31, 2016 at 07:33:36
I saw that piece. Klipsch LaScala the last word??? I don't know.
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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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