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In Reply to: RE: What does this post have to do with anything? posted by rich121 on May 31, 2008 at 23:03:36

My response to Teresa was not intended to support or to disagree with her post. In fact, I said upfront it was only indirectly related. My post certainly did not respond in any way to Teresa’s views on ****"real world" $$...***, which I don’t subscribe to, I don’t think (actually I did not parse her words on that closely at all).

My post largely (really solely) reflected the facts of my visit to an audio guru whom I respect (although certainly not in lock step). But even if I am a convert to Mr. Linkwitz’ apparent (I don’t know for sure what his thinking is) eschewing of high end electronics, I purchased the EMM Labs three years before my visit and before I became a convert…… if I am a convert. And I did not say I was.

Look, there are *lots* of reasons why an audiophile may dump enough money that could feed the poor in Calcutta for a year on new electronics in his or her system. And better sound quality may have *nothing* to do with it.

You ask:

*****how much more was the EMM Labs than your
SCD-1?*****

The EMM Labs cost 3.5 times as much as the SCD-1.

*****why replace the SCD-1 with EMM Labs******

In two words: Multi-Channel.

***Could you hear any difference***

I have never *really* directly compared the two-channel EMM Labs to the SCD-1. I made a half-hearted attempt one day, but at the time I had dozens of multi-channel SACDs that I had never heard (in multi-channel). And making “gear” comparisons, which have never been a priority of mine, became even less of a priority.

And unequivocally, the sound quality difference in my system between stereo (SCD-1) and multi-channel (EMM Labs) is as much a game changer that has existed in audio, in the last 50 years, in my opinion. This sound quality difference goes well beyond “gear” comparisons.

I will say, that in my opinion, the EMM Labs, as a two-channel source, is very good and that is important, but not so good that it will transform or break a system that already houses a good/excellent CD or SACD source. And it is far more important that it is multi-channel than it is a “Meitner” because Meitner multi-channel makes Meitner two-channel seem ordinary.

Robert C. Lang

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