RonM;576112 Wrote: > Actually, anyone who has passing familiarity with concert violins knows > that Dan is quite right. There have been innumerable blind tests > involving Stradivari, and fine instruments from Stradivarius and other > makers up to the 20th C have been shown to be indistinguishable to the > ears of masters. Nicely summarized in the Wikipedia article at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius. > > It's not to say that the Stradivari aren't beautiful instruments, worth > owning and even worth the premium they command; it's rather that the > belief, the mythology, can be more than a bit much. Not unlike > audiophilia. > > R.
Oh, stop bringing up that pseudoscience stuff like testing. Just stop it. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
