jh901 wrote: > C'mon, Ralph. This is an AUDIOPHILE forum. Enthusiasts, right? And > someone starts a threadcrap thread about Magico without knowing the > first thing about the company's products or the two founders. And then > we get an anti-audiophile threadcrap which I respond to appropriately. > Yet all you can do is toss me under the bus? Wow. Think about it, if > someone came to a wine enthusiast site and popped off constantly about > how Oenophiles suck and the wine press sucked and the vinters all stunk > (aside from the box wine, of course), etc, wouldn't you expect a retort > to shoot down the BS? Why don't you defend your fellow hobbyists for a > change? > > How did you arrive at the conclusion that tubes have no place in audio? > You better tell Vladimir Lamm among many, many other brilliant > engineers. If you haven't heard at the very least a modern tube pre-amp > then it might be time for a home demo. And I wouldn't expect you to buy > anything. Jeez. Just try out an SLP-05 and use a smartphone camera to > capture the look on your face. LOL. It will be priceless!
Point by point: 1) Your wine analogy is flawed - no one here is advocating big box audio (the audio equivalent to box wine). A proper analogy would a wine lover preferring a $30 per bottle California wine over an over priced $300 per bottle French wine. Both wines are very good and both many merits and both offer a great deal of enjoyment, just that with the $30 wine one now has $270 to spend on a really nice dinner. Buying Vandersteen speakers instead of Magico gives one $160,000 to buy a nice Italian car! 2) Tubes - one word: RELIABILITY 3) I did say that Cary does not sound good but rather that I don't think it offer a level of performance even the slightest bit better than my fully solid state Sim Audio pre-amp, which by the way is a two piece unit: power supply in one piece and pre-amp in the other. Plus it has a solid aluminum remote which doubles as a weapon. 4) I don't use smartphone cameras, I much prefer real cameras, you know the kind with real lens. 5) I saw your response to my post over the "Jazz Recommendations" thread. Give Remler a listen, you will not be disappointed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
