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In Reply to: An Interview With Accuphase. posted by George Mann on February 16, 2007 at 15:25:44:
by a parallel with David Frost's interview series - with Trickie. BoF's only I ween.Where there was an almost incipient element of grovelling to power or ex-power in the one case and $$$$$$$ items, and a complet lack of coherence. Striking really! :-)!
AND, the same reviewer actually has until recently preferred 300B SET amps, NOT at all a good propounder of the 'Gospel Accuphase=Hi-FI' according to George, Chapters 1 to 100.
I'd have thought anyway.
Also isn't AC power conditioning just mere subjectivist twaddle!
Looking at the passive component quality in current Accuphase items I do note a shift towards good to very good audio quality items. The 'circuits' and most active components, are manifestly of great quality, always have been.
But, an equivalent Bryston is similar, also philosophically, audibly so, and a LOT cheaper, and as well guaranteed and supported or better, to boot. Just plain looking and not VERY heavy.
I do begin to wonder whether Accuphase prices aren't significantly 'marketing' driven. And, I do include their fine aesthetic appeal and heavy build. As distinct from the circuit ideas, and good eng'g raside to the N'th power.
I LIKE all but the latest Beemers, too, ;-)! But I can always remind that this companies logo is an art-deco symbol of a running military airscrew / propellor dating from their sucessful aero engines - alongside MB - in wwI. A BMW in line six possibly in An albatross.
Which may well have been in some early Albatri V-strutter scouts, that strafed my grandfather and his GS waggon and team - near Fromelle in late 1916.
And certainly symbolic of the 801 radials in JU88's shot down over my Dad's squadron's sandy airfield in Libya nera tobruk in late 41!
These little perspectives help me to keep my values and value judgements on an even keel.
One last point WHEN Accuphase do some good and economically priced trickle-down stuff I'll be a lot more convinced of their broad committment to ALL audio-using music lovers, rather than just the ConspicConsump type of 'phile.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Follow Ups:
Mmmm, Timbo,The only Bryston I have ever heard sounded ... well, really bad! :-((
If you say "also philosophically, audibly so" they sound like Accuphase then, thank you, that's another brand I won't ever bother to audition! :-))
(And don't bother suggesting we didn't listen to the Bryston "correctly" ... a number of us were there when the Bryston was substituted with some other amps - which sounded much better.)
Regards,
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on that, just does not interest me enough enough to spend a lot of the budget on it.If we became suddenly wealthy and were gonna spend that kind of money LAMM's SS and valve amps look to be where its at, for me, or the Aussie HIGH NFB super amps and a pre.
Strong non-resonant structures don't have to look lovely to work well for the circuit, and to last in use. The one thing that really concerns me is ease of cleaning, some things like plastic covers - stood off the metal - can be impossible to keep nice once crap get in behind.
If someone with an interior decorator in tow wanting good toalook at gear and able to hear properly IE serious spks and listener positioning and disguised room treatments Accuphase would be a serious rcommendtaion. BTA a trip to Japan would give one access to all the high end Japanese stuff not marketed overseas. All the majors and Luxman, have $$$$$$$$$$ priced good and serious components and spkrs. Most of which is very well styled often similar to Accuphase.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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