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In the Thread: Is any interesting audio in Philadelphia?

Post Subject: The Philadelphia story…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/20/2012

At the light of my trip to Philadelphia I paced a phone call to Peter Breuninger who reportedly lives in the town of the “brotherly love”. Peter Breuninger had found Philadelphia Audio Society years back and I presume is alocal Philadelphia audio guy. I care less about Philadelphia Audio Society – whoever know what the Boston Audio Society is would not have any interest about all. Peter Breuninger fancies himself as some kind of “professional” audio reviewer and some kind of audio traffic coordinator. I know those peoples very well (all imaginable calibers) and from my perspective their level of audio interests/ expertise are too primitive to take them seriously. However, a few years back Peter Breuninger built an installation with Lamm ML3/L1 and Wilson Alexandria and I thought it might be interesting to hear what Peter Breuninger was able to accomplish with it and what he was trying to express by the virtue of his installation.

I do not have too much expectations hear any overly custom or tailored sound as the comments that I read Peter Breuninger posted at TAS were kind of sophomoric and predictably-generic. Still, he lives with that installation for a few years and he might learn something about Sound. If he did not then I thought my trip might be instrumental for him to help him to think about his Sound. My call to Peter was to inform him that I will be in Philadelphia and he has an opportunity to invite me. If he do not insist that the result of my visit to be discreet (many industry people do and I do respect their wish) then I will share my thought about Sound of Peter installation.

Frankly, my first reaction was not positive. Instead of asking what I would like to hear and what my given listening session objectives are (it is what I ask when people ask permission to hear my installation) Peter begin to ask me what I do and who my friends in audio are. The poor man did not “get” that I do not care about single soul in audio industry and most likely disgust each single associates he has in his audio business. These people audio-socialize upon faulty pretention premises that they will support and stimulate each other status quo and they feel that this will cure their fears of mediocrity. They build a phony superstructure of “results appearance” and they vigorously guard their little “card castle” from any independent view that is not part of their “protect ted circuits”. I do not know if Peter Breuninger is plugged into all of it (I’m not familiar with him) but I know too many of his associates who are very heavy on it and whom I consider to be a perfect waste of life-form. So, from the perspective of the expectation of our meeting (as he said: I need to consult with his partners”) the chance is slim.

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