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Re: Excellent review

" Even more laughable; some "inmates" - and here the term becomes more apropos than usual - claim that accurately preserving the music's rhythmic vigor, pacing energy, and timing precision; i.e., good PRaT, is actually a distortion! Meanwhile, these selfsame sound-lovers tout some of the most flaccid, rhythmically confused gear I've ever heard for its so-called "accuracy." "

A distortion? That's pretty damn funny. Probably the same bunch that thinks a hallmark of a good stereo it's ability to let you know how "bad" your recordings are by sounding bad itself!

"I think the Obsolete $ound and their ilk actually did a lot of damage. Who cares whether a system reproduces the sound of live music - a brass ring that's always juuuuust out of reach - when the performence elements that gave the music its soul, energy, and excitement are distorted, sometimes beyond recognition?"

How convenient for the industry - that brass ring will always be "just" out of reach. Until next year when we'll get just a little bit closer. (sarcsasm intended)

I agree with the damage. Can't believe how often I hear pop/rock music fans crying about how bad their recordings sound. What planet are these people from? But of course they'll accuse my systems of being to colored or distorted to sound as bad as it should.

Not much freaks me out more than some guy with a ClearAudio TT complaining about the excessive subilance in Robert Plants voice on Led Zeppelin II in post over on the Rocky Road. That's too freeking weird even for me.

Those kind of concepts are just to queer for general consumption - but lo and behold they took root in the audio world.

I'd happily live with a well-supported stock P3 over the best that Sota, Clearaudio, Basis, VPI, or Teres, etc. have to offer. Not because it's sonically superior - it isn't! - but because it simply plays music more convincingly and engagingly than most of those PRaT-deficient audiophile cupcakes.
Agree!

BTW, if you run a VA search on the P3, you'll find that it receives quite a bit of negative "press" from those who fail to recognise that its light, rigid design implementation has nothing to do with a lack of "build quality," which the critics seem to feel ought to be measured by the pound, rather than the sound.

LOL! The P3 is a fully realized design for it's price point. Ones really got to wonder about these striped down designs others are selling, at close to the price of a P3, that can be upgraded simply by screwing and unscrewing different parts onto the chassis. What the heck! Par for the industry course, these half assed implementations should and do sell for a couple a hundred more than the Rega because they are upgradeable(more sarcasm)! Go figure!



Give me rhythm or give me death!

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