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millercarbon ...
- "Frank, you are too kind. He is the one, probably just about the only one, I would have to disinvite."
Not
me. I’d love to have the guy over for a listening session. Within the
first few notes, he would have a look on his face as though he had just
eaten a crap sandwich. No doubt he would try to save face by finding
fault with the system, but once the session was over, he would leave and
never be able to forget what he had heard. And the best part? He would
try to match the sound somehow but would fail miserably, and would be
chasing it for the rest of his arrogant little life. :-)
By the
way Miller, I still laugh every time I think about your late-night phone
call when your greeting was ... "Frank ... I had to call someone who
understands!" That was truly a classic.
Frank.
That's the problem in a nutshell. All these different things we try, everything from components and cables to HFT and PPS, they all improve the sound in ways that we talk about in very similar terms. Imaging, detail, dynamics, extension, etc. But they also improve the sound in ways that are also somehow different. The Gate and Total Contact are very similar in character to each other, and sort of similar yet very different than the improvement brought by anything else.
There really is no explaining why. We can hardly even describe how. But we sure do know it when we hear it! It's that spine-tingling sensation of a reality. Lately I've been using Townshend Pods and they do get me some of that. But there again the nature of the change is somehow subtly different.
The beauty of it is they all go together. Nothing clashes, everything adds.
Nor do we have the problem so many others talk about, where they think the system got better but then complain how certain records all their faults are revealed and they are now hard to listen to. Every single one of my records sounds so much better than before it is hard to believe.
I know it. You know it. I know that you know it. Pity some of these so-called audiophiles can't get that. Question is, the one in particular, are you really so sure he would even know it when he hears it? Would he even hear it? I don't think so.
