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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 26
Post ID: 16342
Reply to: 16341
Audio trash? Not necessarily.
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 unicon wrote:

The video I am hearing Sounds like trash...
I am pretty sure This set of shit sounds like trash in real too.(no offense)

For sure with the price tag of $235K only audio trash would buy it. Still I do feel that this designed, if the speaker priced very conservatively is not trashy at all. Wait in a few years some kind of Chinese company with a good parley to western marker will do something very similar and offer the same on marker for let say $7K. If it done properly then it shall wipe out the entire mid high-end market.  I do like the new Sibatone design as a very good completion of compromiser that shall be wonderful foe the low price. This design is a direct competitor to small Wilsons – how many Watt-Poppies were sold out there?

I would be hastened to make any assumption about the sound of them. On the video they do sound like crap. The rules of the show are to pay attention only to good sound and disregard bad one. There are 1001 reasons why the new Sibatone did not sound well but in my view it shell not sound this way. In a small room, in good hand and with good drivers this new Sibatone shall do fine. Again, as $235K speaker the new Sibatone shall be considered useless  but if they find the way to make it 10 less then it mish be interesting…

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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guy sergeant
United Kingdom
Posts 260
Joined on 08-03-2004

Post #: 27
Post ID: 16349
Reply to: 16342
Sound at shows
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There's only one thing worse than trying to assess the merits of something from what it does at a HiFi show and thst's assessing it based on a recording at a HiFi Show made using a telephone. Smile
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 28
Post ID: 16356
Reply to: 16317
A word to Silbatone.
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A site visitor sent me another video of Silbatone from the last show:

Another video of the room playing barbaric music. The only missing part from this video was Joe the Archeologist , naked but wearing a ballet skirt and jumping around in open side leaps.

From the video it looks like they finished the speaker expensive. In a way it is very sad and it drove the price higher but server no audio purpose. Quite in contrary with rough textured finish those time of the horns sound better. The most absurd however was the huge bank of capacitors that they use for filters I presume. Again, it is not about the price but sane relation between price and topology. Any piece of equipment might have any price but some topologies are not useful at some condition and price is one of those conditions. The build up a buttery of caps for most likely bass driver is fine for $1000 speakers but for the speaker of $230K it is absurd.  For this price the speaker must be multi-amped and if the Silbatone do not get it then they have no idea what they are doing.  BTW, looking at the music they play at the show it very much might be the case….

The only exception that would justify Silbatone use of the assembly of 20 caps if they WE caps. It is not that WE caps are good but Silbatone use WE in the way how joke Jews use Holocaust - as the ultimate argument in their limited mind. It is very sad and extremely not stimulation. The purpose of practicing Audio is to make good audio today, not the pray and subordinate ourselves to 80 years old WE junk but to make audio of today that would over-perform what all those people did in past. I am sure that Silbatone walk do not drive cars from 1930, do not fly by planes from 1930 and do not solicit sex with women from 1930.There is absolutely nothing “special” in audio from 1930. There was a huge amount of stupidity in audio that took place between then and now but it does not elevate WE, Bell, Klangfilm, Telefinken and the rest of them to the rank of brainless reverence. If Silbatone did accumulate many WE components and they believe that they posses something valuable in their sound then why do not make audio today that would express that “something”?

I think we do and I think that best audio of today is much beyond where WE use to stay. It just might not be produced by Silbatone….

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Serge


Russia
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Post #: 29
Post ID: 16357
Reply to: 16356
GIP Brochure
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Looking through the post-Munich leaflet collection I discovered a have a SIlbatone/GIP brochure.
Take a look.

GIP_IFC.jpgGIP_p1.jpg
gip_p2.jpg
gip_p3.jpg



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Serge


Russia
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Post #: 30
Post ID: 16358
Reply to: 16357
More scans from GIP brochure
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GIP_Silbatone.jpg



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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 31
Post ID: 16359
Reply to: 16358
G.I.P 9101 driver
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Sergey, thank you very much for posting it.  All that I knew about GIP was that they make just WE replica which made me do not pay my attention to them. However your pages clearly indicate that they are way beyond it and they use the some good WE quietus as an inspiration and pretty much make own drivers more suitable foe modern playbacks. This is totally different story.

If so I m very much interested to learn about them. Their 9101 driver looks very interesting, thought I would like to see in high-voltage version. Do you know if they have US distribution and how can I try them. Do the GIP folks travel West? If so then would it be possible to lure them into my listening room for a day?  I do not have any temptation to change my S2 – in the way how I use it I am absolutely satisfied with it but I do have open mind about those things and I would like to see what GIP 9101 would be able to show. I doubt that 9101 driver would show something more interesting then what I am getting from my MF nowadays (there are reasons why) but I would be interested to familiarize with what GIP is trying to express with this 9101 driver.

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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ArmAlex
Iran
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Post #: 32
Post ID: 16360
Reply to: 16356
Inferior competition
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Romy wrote:
I think we do and I think that best audio of today is much beyond where WE use to stay. It just might not be produced by Silbatone….

It must be so, and its true it isn't being produced by Silbatone...but the rest were so inferior-with a couple of excemption
-that Silbatone could shine.

Regards,
Armen

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Serge


Russia
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Post #: 33
Post ID: 16361
Reply to: 16359
Don't know much about GIP
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Romy, I am quite sure I know less about GIP then you... US rep? Not Joe Roberts, I hope. On the brochure they have web-site addresses, there are two of them: www.silbatoneacoustics.com and www.gip-laboratory.com. It is possible that those are two separate companies.
Funny thing that I always thought that Silbatone was a company which succeeded Loth-X. Loth-X founder was a German guy named Lothar, who lives in Singapore. He used to play Melodiya vinyl at CESs a few years ago. I think I remember him at the Silbatone room when they fist appeared at CES. But may be I'm wrong. In 2010 Silbatone had this Manger driver horn-loaded, very bad idea I think. Now they are with GIP, which seem to be based in Japan.



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Romy the Cat


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Post #: 34
Post ID: 16362
Reply to: 16361
The new twist of G.I.P company. Reasons?
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Of course I did go to the GIP site and I did not see in there a lot of what I would like to see. They are presented in there as a vintage audio resellers, stressing the originality and authenticity of their items. The brochure that you posted has completely different attitude, the attitude that I like quite a lot. I do not know where it suddenly comes. I know that all those people in one way or another read my site and most likely they read my criticism about the stupid vintage paranoia and moronity of replication efforts; perhaps they took is as a their marketing ploy.

There are 2 possibilities.

1)      The new 9101 driver might be the same as the old GIP 954 WE replica and the “recognition of the original qualities and improving drivers performance up to the contemporary demands” is just a literature that GIP took from my old posts.

2)      GIP always was not just replicating WE but trying to improving the things but in the environment of the today audio idiots who sell to each other  WE labels they never had guts to proclaim that they do different own drivers, not only replicate WE. Now they decided to change the literatures….

Of cause the second possibility would be nice but I wonder if it is what was going in the minds of GIP people then why the complete speakers systems  that they endorse and sell are the same replica of WE, with no efforts to made anything more intelligent?

I do not have the answers.

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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Post #: 35
Post ID: 16363
Reply to: 16362
Adaptation
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The paper drivers, at least, look like the best of the vintage stuff.  Of course it's hard to say without hands on how GIP products have translated from Vintage WE and, judging by the literature, either the "vintage market" is irresistable to them or this is another case where the savvy "consumer" is left to his own devices as far as musically-significant adaptation and application of the available "product".  I always get suspicious when I see the words "Full Range" applied to any one driver; it seems like an intictment of the developers.  But this may just be residual from the vintage market pandering, and, in practice, one might adapt any whizzerless driver for use in whatever range it can cover acceptably, given acceptable cost/benefit in the end use, for the end user.  The overall quality looks good.  I would be quite surprised if they are any sort of a "value" in terms of price; but anything that can be put straight into use as-is and subsequently ignored is for me the height of luxury, and worth a considerable premium.

I wonder if the "banks of capacitors" are batteries for the FCs?  That seems more likely than X/O components.

Best regards,
Paul S
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Paul S
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Post ID: 16364
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Steam Punk
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After visiting the websites I am less sure of the effects of the aims of the "manufacurers", and a couple of mechanical and tactical errors in the "products" also caught my eye, not to mention the obvious subordination of - everything - to the overall aesthetic.  As usual, caveat emptor.  If the goal is to respond to and/or adopt a particular aesthetic, or the mantle of one, then by all means, make haste, since it is enough that what you see is what you get.  They do seem to have nailed something or other quite well, like the restored 4X4s, wooden boats, etc., that specialists hawk to trust fund kids and dreamer/over-achievers alike.  As for audio, per se, I am no closer to knowing about that than I was before I looked at their sites. 

Paul S
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 37
Post ID: 16369
Reply to: 16362
Truth and fiction.
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It is very self-evident for kind public this clown is working. From all BS that was expressed about me I would point just two facts:

1) I never kicked Joe Roberts from my site and according to site's memebers log he keeps visiting daily.

2) I do not hate Joe Roberts for the reasons he fantasizes but rather I disrespect him because I find him being unethical simpleton, unethical at personal level (like all sales-pimps are) and simpleton in the subjects of audio.

The amount of factual lay he spread about me at various Web sites in order to propel his agenda is too explicatory. It is sad that Silbatone use that dirt as thier speak person. I guess is said a LOT about Silbatone…

The Cat

Posted at:

http://mailman.io.com/pipermail/sound/2011-May/020657.html


Joe Roberts jroberts at io.com
Mon May 30 18:24:25 CDT 2011

On 5/30/2011 2:08 PM, jc morrison wrote:
> by the way, what the fuck is up with romy the cat? is that guy
> some kind of autistic plumber or what is it that he does? can anyone
> explain to me what his shtick is and why does anyone put up with his
> crap? mystified... does anyone take him seriously?
>

Romy is probably the worst of the clueless wannabe internet audio gurus.
His personal stuff is rather primitive...about where half of the people
on this list were in 1985. Regulator tubes, and multi-amp 5 way horns
and whatnot.

Apparently, he got decent results with these entry-level experiments
that everybody does, which is surely possible, and is now convinced he
is the arbiter of all audio knowledge.

His real skill is in his ability to cultivate a league of dedicated
STASI ball-lickers who grovel at his feet. Stockholm syndrome in action.
There is no shortage of masochistic, low esteem mofos in this hobby and
Romy seems to be able to convince plenty of them that his own delusions
of grandeur have some justification in reality.

Romy is intimidated and afraid of anybody with knowledge or experience
beyond his own, which is a significantly large group, unless he can get
them on his personal expert list to call for advice and answers to posts
he can't handle himself.

Yeah he is no fun. Kind of a sad, tragic, twisted figure. Manners and
personality of an aboriginal. He can be funny in small doses but the mix
of obnoxiousness and insecurity is too disturbing for the comedy content.

I am reminded of this little ditty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFdl7982TgA&feature=related

The Cat particularly hates me because I clearly pointed out the
epistemological dead-end in his constant critiques of stuff he has not
heard--or anything other than what he endorses.

He quietly kicked me off his site...guess I (and the truth) was too much
of a threat. Yet he complains that he is attacked in forums he got
kicked out of (most of them) where he can't defend himself.

Fact is, he really sucks at analysing stuff he hasn't seen or heard but
he constantly insists on doing it, as a sort of personal specialty.
Maybe he has a good ear and maybe not, but I doubt he has really heard
that much. Worse, he doesn't think he needs to...

To this I say:  http://tinyurl.com/3clxtpk

He was on this list for a few weeks 15+ years ago and the locals drummed
him out of town because he was a disruptive fool. If he didn't have his
own site, he would have nowhere to go.

Don't worry, man. he won't go after you because he would have no clue
what your stuff is about. The Cat is a pussy to the max.

J-ROB

PS: Everything I say is illustrated in this thread, which I found
looking for Munich reports:
http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=2&postID=16356#16356

He somehow believes that G.I.P. is copying HIM...hahahaha! Like a
genuine expert would watch The Three Stooges for advice. This stuff is
so far above his head he doesn't even know this part of the atmosphere
exists!


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stitch


Behind The Sun
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Post #: 38
Post ID: 16373
Reply to: 16369
Each his own
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Everyone can write whatever he wants onto his own website. Personally I have no problem with that. I am old enough to decide what I think about this or that.

In a way I like that, because censorship is everywhere in the forums and from my multi year experience, the customer is always the looser there. I never found one example where a moderator wrote, the writer is right and the manufacturer shouldn't produce such Bullshit for overpriced money.

Same with the Fanboys from a Manufacturer in these Forums. Most of these full time idiots aren't able to think about what was written, because they are simply too stupid to think about a Design, instead they start personal attacks and try or do ruin someones reputation via private mails.

Thumbs up for Goodsoundclub.


Kind Regards
Stitch
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 39
Post ID: 16374
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Those literature developers…
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Well, I was a bit surprised to see that Joe Roberts post. My surprise was how afraid he is and how easily he might be manipulated. Also, I was surprised how accurate was my prediction that the pompoms Joe Roberts are getting his stinky marketing ideas from my site. It is not that I particularly care about the ownership of it - I give everything for free, but the poor primitive pimp is just too damn to understand what is going on. It is not first time happening and not only with him. BTW, I do not disagree with the move he made foe G.I.P., I think it is good direction to go if they do go there. I am afraid that it is not the direction but just the literatures that Joe the Plumber has developed for them.

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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decoud
United Kingdom
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Post #: 40
Post ID: 16376
Reply to: 16374
One half of the story
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You would not ask a carpenter for an opinion on the merits and demerits of a Stradivarius, yet those who comment on playback only seem to care about technicalities (though, tellingly, not the technicalities of auditory psychophysics). The sad reality (for it would be good to hear other views) is there is nowhere else to go but this site: no one else shows any evidence of having both technical and musical understanding.
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Romy the Cat


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Post #: 41
Post ID: 16378
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...and of cause there is another half of the story.
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All of those full of pomposity and pretentiousness online confident professors have very pale appearance as they need to demonstrate the actual results. The mouth running is great but audio is not literature but Sound. So, the another half of the story is a very predictable and never failed pattern that all those scared and impotent Joe Roberts demonstrate after I headed what they actually accomplished. As soon I hear the Sound of those self-proclaimed professors , pointing out the huge problems with Sound and get home than  I begin to have phone calls and emails informing that as soon I left the “professor”  begin to inform everyone that Romy raped his grandmamma, defecated on kitchen table, killed the family pats and poisoned all trees in his garden. Actually the best was from another Joe Roberts from Chicago who informer that I am caring a gun and threaten to kill anybody if I degree with my critiques. This that all that industry dirt is all about and this is the very other and very indicative half of the story…

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 42
Post ID: 16424
Reply to: 16314
Munich High End - show impressions...
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... by Jeffrey W. Jackson

http://hifiheroin.blogspot.com/2011/06/munich-high-end-show-impressions.html

The Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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jessie.dazzle


Paris, France
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Post #: 43
Post ID: 16427
Reply to: 16369
Memo to Silbatone
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In response to:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=2&postID=16369#16369
Joe Roberts jroberts at io.com
Mon May 30 18:24:25 CDT 2011
http://mailman.io.com/pipermail/sound/2011-May/020657.html

Well now, that's quite the little out burst. I would not have expected such a ham-fisted and adolescent form of expression from someone who makes his living from writing. Aside from coming across as a total slave to his emotions, the overall message conveyed by Roberts is that Romy has obviously struck a nerve; the only way to do that is by confronting someone with the truth.
 
Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.

jd*



How to short-circuit evolution: Enshrine mediocrity.
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 44
Post ID: 16429
Reply to: 16427
Joe Roberts and his Jonathan Weiss illness
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 jessie.dazzle wrote:
Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.

I kind of thought this way initially but then I change my view. Silbatone is not truly look for developing of credibility, demonstrate any pushy result or get some market share for own products or ideas. If they do then they would not engage those ineffective cult-whores like Joe Roberts. There are plenty of products mover in the industry who actually crate sales and traffic. Joe Roberts and alike are from perspective of global sales are village idiots, the Silbatone owners can’t not be uninformed.

It is highly likely that Silbatone do not look to develop any further opportunity for themselves. I do not blame them. As I heard behind Silbatone stays a wealthy Korean industrialist who has a bobby to spend some money for audio collecting.  It is always around those people there is a pack of little fish who use somebody else recourse to play with opportunities, or on case of Joe Roberts: to play with words. Again there is nothing wrong with this, still I do feel that the last Silbatone loudspeaker is a very good scalable configuring for little money and in good marketing hands it might become a very successful model. I looks unfortunately that Silbatone will not be developing this idea further, it is pity…. I will not be surprised if somebody with more objective to become successful would do the same configuration as the last Silbatone’s speaker.

BTW, pay attention that Silbatone did not do anything interesting in loudspeakers. They collect vintage WE that is not indication of own thinking in my book. Their former spear with propagating wave driver was very much foolish and their remade of WE are not interesting and primitive. The new Silbatone that they show off in Munich was actually a first good demonstration of Silbatone own design and in my view a very good thinking. Sure, the BS that Silbatone’s Joe express doe not encourage too much to look at the Silbatone seriously but it is not about people but about design ideas. Joe Roberts is essentially a person of Jonathan Weiss level - it is no surprise that in there he has a full bloom – his taste and class of judgment are unfortunately self-evident. How does it relate to Silbatone? I do not know. I am not in business to promote or demote audio frustrations, I am bystander.  Unfortunately Joe is in different business – running mouth on audio subjects to retouch reality. There was time - 20 years back, what he was not “prepaid commercials provider” – he had interests to what he was saying. Now he is dead and all that he do or has interests in audio is searching internet for word “Silbatone” and stick his tang and any hole that mention Silbatone. Funny, his is so superficial that he does not even understand what people are taking about his protégé, very alike to Jonathan Weiss.

The caT


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stitch


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Post ID: 16432
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High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags for nonsens
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I heard from a Professional Journalist who was all days at Munich High End Show that they didn't have many visitors. The official numbers are critical, he said, they must have counted every Leg and Arm as Visitors.
And it was the same boring demos as every year, no even worse (hard to believe, but it was possible).
More or less a Apple Show (MacBooks + Dac).
These Horn Demonstrations were something different to the usual Stuff we all know. But he wasn't impressed, too.
Based on the high prices there, a lot of small manufacturers can't afford it to show their products. So it was even more boring than the years before.


Kind Regards
Stitch
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 46
Post ID: 16435
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High what?
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 Stitch wrote:
High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags …

Actually it is very valid point. High-End Audio as a notion implies advance sound reproduction by all means, with disregard to cost-benefit analyses or any other considerations. Unfortunately many manufacture today offer just high prices, in fact ridicules high prices but do not offer audio advancement.  Interesting the high prices are not the presentation of high flying topology but just the tribute to un-punished environment where audio pimps operate. Nowadays it is impolite to make a loudspeaker that cost less than $100K and to propose that it might sound well. Interesting the this $100K does not buy an advanced topology of better sound and in most of the cases it deliver sound very comparable to $150 JVC table radio. I am very much not kidding. The only loudspeaker from the late time that I feel is topological more or less justified to have high cost are Cresaro Gamma but still – they are TAD level loudspeakers if you know what I mean. No matter what you do with TAD driver they will still do not get better then TAD drivers – so in my mind Cresaro Gamma are at the level of the same $20K retail – with TADs they will not do anything pushy.

What I am interested is to see why buy those $250K loudspeakers. For sure no one does and they if are sold then at huge secretive discounts, perhaps at 65-75% off. Still, the people who pay even $50K-$70K for a pair of loudspeakers – do they have any mind to understand that for $50K they shell have something more than shiny box with 2-3 drivers?

A few years back I was meeting a local audio guy who did pay around $65K for a pair of new loudspeakers – 3 drivers in box. I visited him, it sounded like shit, not only because of loudspeakers but because many other reasons. I of course told him but he insisted that I do not understand anything.  I asked him what I need to understand. She pointed out to me that the wood pattern on his right and left loudspeaker is absolutely symmetric and if left loudspeaker has under the shiny surface some kind of wooden texture then the right loudspeaker has absolutely identical texture but mirrored.  Honestly, the guy was so proud about this fact that I decided do not ruin his triumph. I did not go to his listening room since then however…

Rgs, Romy the Cat


"I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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