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Late last week I got the latest issue of Stereophile. On the cover: "THE MARK LEVINSON No. 526."Hmmm. I recall back in the 90s a person at a Stereophile show asked Mark if he was Mark Levinson, as in the guy with his name on all of those amps. At the time Mark was demoing his new Cello brand, so there may have been some confusion. With maybe 6 of us in the room Mark replied 'I am THE MARK LEVINSON." Oddly later on there was mention of this event in the pages of Stereophile.
Yesterday the latest TAS arrived, with three more Legends of Hi Fi, and who do I see on page 24? THE MARK LEVINSON. Was this a coincidence? Industry collusion? Or ultimately a joke on Stereophile as the only magazine that truly did have THE Mark Levinson in their issue was TAS?
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"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems to characterise our age." Albert Einstein
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> Was this a coincidence? Industry collusion? Or ultimately a joke on
> Stereophile?
You want jokes on Stereophile? Click on the linked article. :-)
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Oh wow, those Class A stories crack me up every time!
What am I missing? No worries with my amp. I keep a fire extinguisher strapped to my listening chair at all times :-)
their day jobs. :)
What could be funnier than your handmade, vintage amp going up in flames on Christmas day?
I'd be curious if the amp survived or has been repaired?
Guttenberg got his joke bass ackwards - and still didn't get it!
It don't matter. Either way, it's funny, 'cause it's one designer of bad speakers talking with another designer of bad speakers, making fun of each other or themselves.
:)
Whenever the owner of the hi-fi shop I used to frequent/later work at would say "Bose", it was with a continuous lateral motion of his head from side to side. :)
"Guttenberg got his joke bass ackwards - and still didn't get it! "
Now THAT was funny!
Nt
...you watched much more of that than I could.
While it was good to put a face with Herb Reichert's strange writing, I agree with E-stat.
Other than Mark Levinson, who were the other two legends in Hi Fi?
Van Alstine.
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick everyday ...
- Leonard Cohen
I thought John Curl would be in this issue and so did he. I guess I'll have to watch for him in an upcoming issue of TAS.
I've been trying to renew my digital subscription to TAS but their website will no longer take my password. Think they're trying to tell me something?
No one's had a sense of humor at TAS since Scot Markwell left 20 years ago.
Like Scotty are always a shining light and cheerful --even in the face of adversity --much prefer their company and fun rather then the thin lipped beanstalks that think the world owes them a living
and blame you for it.think about it
Des
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He was a hoot to work with!
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick everyday ...
- Leonard Cohen
As we were sitting down to breakfast shortly before CES 2000 was set to open, Scot leaned over and warned me to never look Valin directly in the eye. Seventeen years later I'm still laughing.
... I've written a Stereophile review, forthcoming, that's about death. :-)
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Interesting. Are there notes between the blackness? No notes at all?Daniel
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I've been working on an article about Gremlins in your system. Did you know they are actual Gremlins?
... that he has an excellent sense of humor.
> ... that he has an excellent sense of humor.
Thanks Jim, but my children would disagree. When I attempt to be humorous
around the dinner table, they give me a withering look and say "What have
we told told you about 'Dad jokes'?" :-)
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
I got those looks from the children but never from my grandchildren. Future of humour is bright, JA.
Cheers
Bill
... withering looks are par for the course when it comes to children. No doubt I gave my own father some withering looks.
"withering".... that is so UK... LOL. Should be an SAT word. Keep up the good work Dad!
Been there and done that with my now grow kids. Now I know the official definition of "that" look.
Will
...back in the old days AHC once wrote a Star Trek take-off review.
And I recall an exchange by the commenter and reviewer over a loudspeaker review that included, "You ignorant slut!"
Not any more.
was a funny reference found in HP's review of the Hill Plasmatronic. While he liked the tweeter, he found the midrange honky sounding.
It was something to the effect of "the obnoxious honking ( My Heart Goes Where the Wild Goose Goes )..."
Naturally, Dr. Hill was not amused. :)
I loved HP's one sentence reviews. The first thing Harry taught me about writing was to always be concise and nobody did it better than the founder of TAS.
:-)
"The first thing Harry taught me about writing was to always be concise and nobody did it better than the founder of TAS."
The practice however apparently eludes you.
unfortunately, comes too easily to you.
you can come to AA and say it.
HP's review, in its entirety, of The Whisker record cleaner.
The Abso!ute Sound #6, page 164
Thanks! My issues of TAS don't go quite that far back.
I only wrote under HP for a year but what a year it was. Some of the 2 or 3 word emails he sent were hilarious.
I've never forgotten that capsule review of The Whisker, probably because my dealer (hi-fi, not the other kind) was selling them. I took a friend along during one visit to let him see what "high end" was all about.
He brought along his beloved Stanley Clarke LP, and the salesman cleaned it on the Whisker prior to playing it. I saw my friend at work a few days later and he was complaining about how noisy his LP now was.
Your TAS issues probably stretch a lot further forward than mine do. I think I have the first fourteen issues (the first eight in TAS binders) after which I stopped subscribing. This young man's fancy turned to thoughts of motorcycles, and also the component prices were becoming out of my reach at the time.
I didn't really start paying attention to hi-fi again until about twelve years later, after my divorce.
High end audio cries out for humour. There should be more reviews like Art Dudley's one about the battery powered cables:AudioQuest Cheetah interconnects & Mont Blanc speaker cables
I miss Sam Tellig, Sam could be very funny.
Daniel
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Three things struck me as I read that article:1) Yes, more audio writers should express their sense of humor like AD.
2) Looks at AD's system in 2004 and think about what he uses now. The evolution of our systems over time can be more interesting than what someone is currently using.
3) If MontBlanc actually made speaker cables, I bet they would look really nice!
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likely got the title of one of Corey Greenberg's articles way back when either: "Go Nad." Sheesh, get a sense of humor.
But I mean... it's a super private joke right? The only people that would get it are the ones that were there and the ones that are close friends or colleagues of those that were there...
BUT! For those that were there and get it, it's super funny.
So I guess it's one of those, "You had to be there" type of things.
But yeah... get a sense of humor guys. Sheesh.
I do not know if it is a genetic condition.. Where folks who like high quality playback.. the same gene? for music appreciation denies them any sense of humor, and incapable of spotting irony and sarcasm, when the are reading.
It really is a mystery.
Very sharp observation. Audiophiles cant even find the meaning behind 3 plus 4 being 5. Afterall 3^+ 4^= 5^
Bill
I don't know what you're talking about. You can't even add.
3+4=7
I'm not sure what your point is, or if there even is one. In any case, when two industry mags, in the same month, both mention the name of one of THE leading figures in the entire history of the industry, it's really not much of a coincidence. Much less a joke. Not much difference between that and both "Time" and "Newsweek" mentioning Donald Trump in the same month.But, hey, since this section of the website might as well be re-named "Let's take lame-ass potshots at Stereophile," what's one more pointless drive-by?
-Bob
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Collusion? A joke on Stereophile? I have no idea what you are trying to say.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Besides the point on top of your head, what's your point?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
NT
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