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We all have preferences...We all make CHOICES..

Hi Bob! I don't mean to be mean spirited nor am I compelled to one upmanship. By and large I think that the industry is controlled by public opinion and the corporate hold on public opinion as exercized by the ad gurus on Madison Avenue, not by truth or scientific fact. If you could convince people that crap is good then you could sell crap by the truckload. It's basically about getting rich and most companies don't much care how they get rich as long as they do. It is amazeing what Americans will resort to in order to sell. But Americans are not alone and other cultures are just as powerful sellers. I'm now 56 years old and as I look at Audio in general I'm saddened to see what has taken place. I could site many examples of what I feel are backward steps and some of them have big names behind them and they have been immortalized both by Madison Avenue and by the Audio Engineering Society or SMPTE or NAB or whatever mutual admiration society you might mention. "You can't srgue with success." is their favorite byline. Well I could argue with their success if I think their contribution doesn't really inprove the listening experience and downright hurts or detracts from it. I can't mention names or companies or it would invite litigation. Public opinion is this country is now controlled by who can afford the loudest DRUM or buy the most number of TV spots and who can hire the greatest number of spin doctors countering the TRUTH. Everything from soap to amplifiers to loudspeakers to the Presidency is sold this way. There are virtually no publications or E-zines or Tv stations or Newspapers that do not accept or is not controlled by a group of people with the same vested interest. Even this asylum could be construed as nothing but subliminal advertising by it's supporters. IMHO, there is little in the last fifty years that has improved the quality of sound. They are all different variations on the same theme. It's much like taking two steps forward and 1 and 9/10s steps back. There are few speakers manufactured today that can equal a Western Electric 755 for fast respinse in the midrange. I have heard Altec 604s that sound every bit as good or better as anything being produced today and they were designed in the year that I was born 1948. IMHO inefficient close box speakers are a step backward. Signal processing using compression is a step backward. Multi tracking that destroys the integrity of the performance factor of human musicians is a step backward. Robot controlled loop music is a step backward. A transistor amp doesn't to my ear sound as good as an all triode thermionic amp (and I've tried a lot of transistor amps). These are all the choices I have made and my system entertains me. But then you might have other opinions that serve you well. But for you OR ANYONE WITH THEIR OWN OPINION to stand back and say "well you just like to listen to distortion...." is not relevant. It's not relevant to my situation. I probably am listening to distortions of some form or other but I ernestly try to minimize them according to my ear. These two ears are mine and I'm going to treat them the way that pleases ME most. There are those that think they are so well informed and erodite and scientific AND WISE that they feel they should be making choices for the rest of us. These people's attitudes, in my humble opnion are tantamount to totalitarianism. Cordially, Ray Hughes

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