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Sidebar: Awhile back there was a very high end audio store located near
where I live in the far suburbs of Washington DeeCee where I hung around on
occasion.. Got pretty friendly with one of the sales folks and we would
shoot the breeze when there weren't customers around. One day he tells me
about a customer, who owned a ultra high-end rig, who had come in and was
complaining that the previous night he had attended a performance at the
Kennedy Center in Washington. He said the symphony's sound didn't have the
"air" of his home system.

Now let's face it: a true blue, dedicated, audiophile lusts for nothing
more than the top-of-the-line turntable going to a top-of-the-line tube
phono stage to a top-of-the-line tube pre-amp to a top-of-the-line tube amp
and then to their top-of-the-line speakers. So much for minimium
distortion, jitter, etc. in your system.

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Jim <jim9885@excite.com> wrote:
> Sidebar: Awhile back there was a very high end audio store located near
> where I live in the far suburbs of Washington DeeCee where I hung around on
> occasion.. Got pretty friendly with one of the sales folks and we would
> shoot the breeze when there weren't customers around. One day he tells me
> about a customer, who owned a ultra high-end rig, who had come in and was
> complaining that the previous night he had attended a performance at the
> Kennedy Center in Washington. He said the symphony's sound didn't have the
> "air" of his home system.

Hmm, of all the audiophile buzzwords he could have
picked, that choice is least credible: to complain of lack of
'air' in a space the size of the Kennedy Center!

But 'imaging' and 'detail'
could reasonably be thought superior in a home system
compared to a concert hall (assuming 'more' = 'superior').
If you get a bad seat, even something as simple as
left/right instrumental balance could be way off at
a concert hall, compared to the sweet spot at home.
Next time he should complain about those ;>

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before the House Armed Services Committee

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Jim <jim9885@excite.com> wrote:
> Sidebar: Awhile back there was a very high end audio store located near
> where I live in the far suburbs of Washington DeeCee where I hung around on
> occasion.. Got pretty friendly with one of the sales folks and we would
> shoot the breeze when there weren't customers around. One day he tells me
> about a customer, who owned a ultra high-end rig, who had come in and was
> complaining that the previous night he had attended a performance at the
> Kennedy Center in Washington. He said the symphony's sound didn't have the
> "air" of his home system.

> Now let's face it: a true blue, dedicated, audiophile lusts for nothing
> more than the top-of-the-line turntable going to a top-of-the-line tube
> phono stage to a top-of-the-line tube pre-amp to a top-of-the-line tube amp
> and then to their top-of-the-line speakers. So much for minimium
> distortion, jitter, etc. in your system.

I've posted this before, but it's worth posting again:

http://www.zainea.com/areaudiophilesmusiclovers.htm

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