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In Reply to: RE: Which we know because of Bob Stuart's/MQA's claims that you are so faithfully parroting? posted by bjh on October 30, 2016 at 08:26:36
This is not the first time that he has teamed up with the audio media on format publicity.
Lossless was one case and this was responsible for the bad mouthing and killing off of sacd.
Another UK manufacturere was even more successful in killing off Japanese Direct Drives, which is now much valued by audiophiles. These guys claimed that they were making belt drives with bearing accurracise that werb just not possible in absolute terms those days. I used to have 2 Linns and never found them to be any better (in fact more coloured) than my direct drives.
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As for the first subject of your post, I couldn't say.
However with respect to Linn and the press killing the DD TT market, that is specious in the extreme, giving the them undeserved credit.
The big Japanese manufacturers had no interest in that foolishness, busy as they were phasing out the TT in preparation for the launch of the CD ... perhaps the greatest cash cow the industry (music + manufacturers) ever experienced.
Hogwash The big Japanese manufacturers were happy to sell turntable until the level of sales fell way off that they were no longer profitable. It was good Ol' Ivor and his allies in the British magazines who make the crazy claims about the deficiencies of Direct Drive turntables. The British press was eager to help the native manufacturers even if the product wasn't as good as imported products. That kind of thought moved into the US audio press with the importation of people like Collums, Kessler and their ilk. All you have to do is read TAS or Stereophile from that era and you can start to see the change take place.
Of course the British Press has no problem with imports now that so much of the local manufacturers have been bought by the Chinese. They ignore the fact that their local equipment is now made in China and the names are just names with nothing of substance behind them.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
I actually attended a demo conducted by the great man at the London Hilton - a big space in which he compared turntable v cd player.
The sound quality of the replay was poor, so that any comparison between the two had little meaning (for me anyway). Yet the audience all nodded in favour of the turntable when so suggested!
This demonstrates to some extent the power of the media and the force of suggestions to an audience.
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