[Amps] Western Electric

[ve3rwj at winsystem.org]

LOL here's more audiophile craziness:
http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-rocks-down-the-rabbit-hole-once-again/

A local high-end stereo shop, the kind with no prices visible on anything, has these little wooden blocks under the speaker wires of their main demo system. Why? I'm not sure. "to keep them off the ground" said the proprietor, when I asked. And, these speaker wires are big manly things, about half an inch around. I didn't check to see if the four feet of cord from the amp to the wall outlet was also ridiculous, but I'm guessing it was as stout as my forearm.

I almost fell for some of this stuff, until I took some actual mixing and mastering courses, learned some fundamentals, trained my ears etc.




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From: Amps <amps-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Benjamin Deovlet via Amps
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Would it reduce sideband splatter?


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From: Gary K9GS <k9gs at gjschwartz.com>
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Sent: Tue, Mar 22, 2022 8:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric

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-------- Original message --------From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> Date: 3/22/22  10:57 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: amps at contesting.com Subject: Re: [Amps] Western Electric On 3/22/2022 7:44 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:> I once heard them derisively described as “audiophools.” I’ve seen some horrifically expensive audio gear whose specifications are rather mediocre compared to modern solid state gear. I've used that word myself! Almost 20 years ago, I was walking down the street in Zurich on my way to speak to an AES Chapter meeting (a stopover returning from the convention which had been held in Vienna), and we passed a shop catering to these folks with a monstrous speaker cable with a price tag of more than $1,000 (in Swiss Francs). The cable couldn't have been 20 ft long. I took a photo of it, but managed to lose the camera on the flight back to Chicago.When people ask me about stereo gear, I direct them to mainstream stuff of moderate cost, and tell them to use the money they've saved to buy records by Billie Holiday and Lester Young.73, Jim K9YC_______________________________________________Amps mailing listAmps at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps
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