[Vintage-Audio] Re Acoustical Research Speakers

Tue May 20 20:07:01 2003

Even dumber...There was a carjacking here in LA where the car thief took the car at 
gun point for its "wheels" $16,000 worth on an Integra.....left the $3000 stereo, just 
took the wheels.

WBob

Salmons, Michael wrote:
> 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]]
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> ----- 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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