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I’ll kick off with a recent posting by the remarkably clear-sighted and even handed Archimago.

Once again cutting through layers of mostly deliberate confusion, obfuscation and denial.

Production, Reproduction and Perception - the 3 pillars upon which everything in our audiophile world stands, is my new mantra.

So simple it’s surprising that no one else pointed it out earlier.

Be sure to also check out his follow up blog from Wednesday, 11 March 2020.

http://archimago.blogspot.com/2020/03/musings-audio-music-audiophile-big.html?m=1
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Showing 2 responses by mozartfan

Kinda rambling and disorganized, doncha think? I mean he wrote like five thousand words. Yet all he really said was we can't make up with reproduction what wasn't originally captured in the recording. Nor should we try.

Is that even news?


Yeah that was my initial impression,,glad you could sum things up, in short.
All I am trying to acheive in my modificatiosn is cleaning/clearing/defining the sonics. 
This is what is needed most, folks trying this mod vs this mod,,cap A vs cap B, resistor A vs resistor B, tube A vs tube B, and so on,,interconnect A vs interconnect B, etc etc. 
Real time opimnions based on acutal A/B testing. 
This is the purpose of all my YT uploads , all of which are presented here, for anyones curiosity. 
This way they can have some idea of what might /might not work in their idea of acheiving a  Class A high fidelity sound. 
I can tell you the Gold Lion KT88's did not present music as did the Svetlana 6550's. Vocals/some mid FQ's were more realistic in the Svetlana 6550's. 
I believe I read in my researches, another audioplihe mentioned he did not care for the GL KT88's , right off, no need to *burn in**, that was my impression as well, in just less than a minute, i  felt the  voicing for female vocals was not as realistic as the chinese KT88,,The Svetlana 6550 were even more clearer vs the chinese 88's. 
The article won’t be everyone’s cup of tea as SL didn’t pull his punches, but I think it’s well worth 10 or 15 minutes reading time.


Excellent find, , Thank you for bringing us some meat on the bones  opinions froma  legendary expert as is the highly respected Dr Linkwitz.
Section 15,, thats whats most of interest for me.
I love how his opinions line up with some of mine. 
B&W's,,I won't go there,,,, 
Magneplanars,,won't go there. 
Dr Linkwitz mentions the Wilson line as perhaps, the best we can hope for,,,but surely does not go to the point of recommending Wison as *the best*. 
He can't. 
Why?
Besides my prejudice that i hate Wislon speakers as much as I hate many other lines, at least the other highly colored /highly distorted lines are not like the Wilsons. 
The Wilons to me are a ~~joke~~ for a  ideal speaker,, Thet are ~~~ laughable. 
You needa  forlift to move them,,and price tag,, you will need to sell some TESLA stock to buy a  pair. 
For me, the Wilson's do not exist. 
I am very surprised Dr Linkwitz did not mention the fact that SEAS has always made the finest drivers, and their top of line are the most musical drivers made today.. Very surprised. 
I think Linkwitz is more about theory, and lacks a bit of  ~~fidelity~~ in his opinions. How could he fail to mention SEAS at the very last sentence??? 
Anyone?
In my 40 years, no other speaker presents music as does SEAS,,that is under a  rasonable price factor,,I would love to hear Jadis' speakers, vs the SEAS. But then again Jadis' lines have tto be excluded, due to both critical factors
1) weight/size
2) cost
Leaving SEAS all alone as Top Dog