Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone.

Wish I could say the poetry surprises me, but not from Peter. Not after hearing his a record is a beautiful woman metaphor.

Oh and I found the SG thread over at whatsbestforum.com and found a surprise in there from Peter. See, over in the Soundsmith having issues thread, a discussion inexplicably now closed, I had said the Strain Gauge has the look of a purpose made scientific instrument. So what a pleasant surprise to read Peter in the other thread saying there are two camps, the musical instrument camp and the scientific instrument camp, and his SG is the first to be mostly in the scientific instrument camp.

To you Peter I will say how your work reminds me of a story told among Porsche owners. It is said the German people have a word for when functional engineering is elevated to such a sublime level it merges with and becomes art. I don’t know the word. Don’t even know if the story is true. But it would be nice if it is. We would know what to call what you do.

MC, you do know that after WW2, when Germany was in ruins, and the British Civil Service went over there, expecting the population to be on it's knees, what they found were the people literally rebuilding their car factories from the rubble w their bare hands.
Within 5 years, they were already ahead of us. By the 80s, esp w the release of the VW Golf, they were in a whole different race. And today, the Germans spend whole weekends visiting their car factories, seeing the synergy of engineering and lifestyle as a patriotic display.
Peter in his own way is taking a hyper engineering approach. Not for him the typical Japanese warm Koetsu signature of the typical European cool and collected Clearaudio signature.
No, w the Straingauge, Peter is going for the straight resolution angle. Because w resolution comes natural warmth, lifelike speed, dynamic contrast, tonal density and differentiation, and timbral accuracy.
Despite him being American, this is almost German uber engineering married to art...basically, life.
And the Straingauge is the closest source component I've owned that's got me closer to the life of performances on lp.

Peter,

Are you leaving us?

Q

I'm wondering that too. I was on my way to NY to drop off my Beogram TX after talking to Peter . The following day all this virus hit NY in the news and I halted. Hopefully I'm not to late .