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In the Thread: Horn loaded ribbons and other Vasyachkin’s tangents....
Post Subject: For the Love of LovePosted by Paul S on: 11/4/2008
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The most interesting thought to come out of this thread for me is surfing the wave versus making the wave (or, making a part of the wave...).

Personally, I just enjoy listening to great music in my home, and I am happy any time this can happen.  Since this is what motivates me, I have to admit I am really not concerned about anything but results (tempered by cost/benefit...), and this is for me the ultimate measure of both the theory and its application.  I truly aim to stay "loose" and keep my ego out of the equation where particular means are concerned.  Meanwhile, I always hope that those who are more absorbed with a particular aspect of audio theory are also getting what they want out of their involvement, even if in the end they are more concerned with, say, visual images than musical experiences.  I have been given to understand that Vladimer Lamm is a "concept guy", who dismisses the notion of "listening evaluations", and as far as I am concerned, some of his ideas were largely successful, at least for my purposes.  Still, in the end, its the results I support, not the "theories", which I see merely as tablature written in chalk on a blackboard.

It would probably be fair to say that I have in some way messed with/adapted everything in my system, meaning everything I use has been modified from "stock" by me for my own applications.  This is because I do not love the means in and of itself, but rather I love the Music.  And no matter what others say with respect to how something "should" be in terms of any criteria they may isolate, still  the Music endures, at least for me.

As an aside, I happen to go back to the early days of consumer stereo, and I have messed with the terrible-sounding "wave guides" that "Vintage" guys still drool over.  Keeping just music in mind, I certainly hope that modern wave guide "proponents" can do better than "classic" JBL, etc.  If they come up with something that gets close enough to something I'm after, I'll gladly adapt it.

Best regards,
Paul S

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