[Vintage-Audio] Re Acoustical Research Speakers

Tue May 20 18:39:00 2003

well, they do still perform music live, y'know! and i have seen younger =
adults at classical and jazz shows. and those particular people probably =
don't have throbbing car stereos that cost more than their cars. well, =
maybe some do. anyway, i agree with you, our culture is not as intimate =
with the actual source of music as it used to be. but it's not an =
absolute, though i'd say the percentage of music encountered through a =
mediated experience, rather than a direct, live encounter, is very close =
to 100% nowadays.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. McKee [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 4:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Acoustical Research Speakers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Salmons, Michael" <[email protected]>
<snip> and I don't know anyone younger than myself who
is seriously interested in accurate musical reproduction- but
I can't imagine the possibility that there is no young person
interested in it. <snip>

Believe it!  ACCURATE MUSIC REPRODUCTION
cannot have any meaning at all when the "music" does
not exist in real life.  It's all amplified noise.

Back in "the old days" we could go to a symphony
concert, a ballroom, or a number of other places and
find real musicians playing real instruments... a mix of
tonal colors and dynamic range that would give you
goose bumps and put your toe to tapping or your arms
to directing that mass of power in such perfect
synchronization.

Then you could come home and throw stones at the
stereo until you got exactly the right mix of turntable,
cartridge, preamp, amp and speakers.  The combinations
are without limits but the rewards are musical enjoyment.
NOT the bending of sheet metal with a noise system
that is worth (God, I hated to have to use that word)
more than the car.

Long live REAL music!!!
Bob McKee

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