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In the Thread: The idiotism of Audio Synergy
Post Subject: Mor[e]on this, pleasePosted by Paul S on: 1/28/2008
OK, not to use "that word"; it is obviously an inverted and self-limiting concept as you tab it, and it is an easy, slippery slope to slide down.
So how does one {mentally/verbally] approach situations where certain otherwise-"acceptable" components are simply incompatible with one another? As an example, I cite the wood bodied Grado cartridges and the Rega tonearms; or, for that matter, typical 12g arms with the Shelter 901. Also, you have mentioned that your TL-0 CD transport is "too much" for most systems; and we "all" know better than to pair a 45 SET amp to a big FR speaker system. Anyway, cases like these just seem to leave a conceptual hole where the "opposite" has wormed its way in, first as "background" , then as the flip side of the [common] coin.
Of course your notion of "synergy" as a magic solution to bad sound is anethema to this site, and I for one do not find it necessary to use the term at all, really.
But surely it is well to discuss "compatibility" and other issues commonly confused into the fog of "synergy".
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site