Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH

heard a rumor about a guy who bought grand prix table at show, now moving up to a walker. believe what you will

the problem as i see it, Raul, you are suggesting MF should have "tweeked" the Monaco to compete with what ever it is being compared to. the problem with that is, who better then the designer to know what sounds best with their product. if other cables, cart. or arm were entered in to the review or the same one in the compared setup you would complain they weren't the correct tweeks(arm, cart. cables stand/rack etc.). who better then the designer to deside what sounds best with his/her design,in the end it's his/her ear you are listening to. I have a little different aproach. I subsribe to the idea that every part(tt, cables, amp, pre-amp, phono etc.) should add to the whole and be able to stand on it's own. meaning, if any new component is entered in to a system it should make a positive improvement(tube or solidstate) whether it brings out the bad in another component or makes the sysem as a whole sound better. i understand synergy and except it's importants, but like children all components MUST be able to play together.

agree and disagree. assuming MF system sounds as good as he claims it does(i believe that, that is a given)and all the parts are of high quality state of the art components(i am sure they are), changing one component should not be the direct cause of the system to sound bad(the extreme) unless it has flaws. an example maybe to compare a porsche 911 to a corvette. they both do the same thing but if i were to say that the porsche beats out the corvette in everyway(and it does) in a test drive you would argue that the porsche was tweeked(even though we are talking stock cars) better then the corvette or that the track was set to posche's favor. these aguments don't hold water, would you argue the porsche has better tires or a better clutch. would you swap parts to try to improve? of corse not. IT IS THE SUM OF IT'S PARTS AND HOW THEY ARE CONECTED THAT MAKES ANY COMPONENT WHAT IT IS, THEY ARE CHOSEN BY THE DESIGNER. you can tweek a SYSTEM but in the end a component is what it is..... i do enjoy the music