Brucegel and Detlof, sorry, but I can't share your swell opinion of Sasha's post. Where is the iconoclasm in noting that the high end hasn't taken any quantum leaps closer to reality recently, or that everything - plus synergy - matters in a system, or that dynamic fidelity is a big issue? That's stock stuff, true as it may be.
What I notice more are his hard-to-defend comment implying that only seven or so brands of wire (which, interestly, bear little relation to one another in their product designs) can truly be called "good", and the claim that his customers "worship" him (what's so "beautiful" about that sentiment?).
More to the point though, Sasha's cliched exhortations about "magic", his declaration that "all high end [equipment] is great", and his claim that he can make a $3K system sound very nearly the equal of a $50K system (apparently through a mixture of mass-market electronics and speakers with high-$$ wires bought used, to judge from the rest of his post), make me wonder what exactly he means when he leads in by offering that the thread-head is "getting the run-around from these audio amatuers , and I'd like to help".
Gee, how gracious of him...Sasha, sorry to have so thoughtlessly provoked a selfless professional such as yourself to need to emerge from the woodwork in order to set us straight. Doubtlessly, the original poster will now know exactly what they need to do after reading your uniquely valuable contribution: Call you.
What I notice more are his hard-to-defend comment implying that only seven or so brands of wire (which, interestly, bear little relation to one another in their product designs) can truly be called "good", and the claim that his customers "worship" him (what's so "beautiful" about that sentiment?).
More to the point though, Sasha's cliched exhortations about "magic", his declaration that "all high end [equipment] is great", and his claim that he can make a $3K system sound very nearly the equal of a $50K system (apparently through a mixture of mass-market electronics and speakers with high-$$ wires bought used, to judge from the rest of his post), make me wonder what exactly he means when he leads in by offering that the thread-head is "getting the run-around from these audio amatuers , and I'd like to help".
Gee, how gracious of him...Sasha, sorry to have so thoughtlessly provoked a selfless professional such as yourself to need to emerge from the woodwork in order to set us straight. Doubtlessly, the original poster will now know exactly what they need to do after reading your uniquely valuable contribution: Call you.