In Reply to: Shindo amps and DIY posted by Janos on March 26, 2007 at 15:57:06:
As you correctly said, amplifiers made by great practitioners of this art are all different. They have their own variety of goodness that may appeal to different tastes. One amp is good for mono jazz records, another for 78 rpm Toscanini. You cannot compare these amps and tell which one is absolutely the best. Moreover, a marginally sophisticated and unprejudiced listener will find flaws in each and every one of them.A perfect amp is a dream that never comes true, and pursuit of this dream is a lifelong and open-ended endeavour. As famous anarchist Kropotkin said, goal is nothing, movement is everything. One can have certain achievements along the way, but true followers never stop at these milestones. These true followers are all DIY.
I would compare the most sophisticated DIY to artists who always look beyond their past achievements and are never satisfied.
Commercially successful designers are like painters who found that one particular work sells well, and focus their efforts on making many copies of it.
Gear fans are like art lovers - not creative themselves, they enjoy creativity of the others.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Shindo amps and DIY - sser2 12:45:29 03/27/07 (5)
- Re: Shindo amps and DIY - RC Daniel 00:54:18 03/28/07 (3)
- Oops, I sounded like a tosser... - RC Daniel 02:50:48 03/28/07 (2)
- No, your point is right on the mark. - sser2 12:54:37 03/28/07 (1)
- It is ;) - Janos 20:07:10 03/28/07 (0)
- Re: Shindo amps and DIY - Janos 18:59:10 03/27/07 (0)