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Paul S
San Diego, California, USA
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Joined on 10-12-2006
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Building On "Accidental Success"
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Not to hijack Romy's very fine video on system evaluation via YouTube...
That video got me thinking about how I find gear to try out. I think it has been 40 years since I heard any demo and thought, I want my system to sound just like that. Rather, I like something about the sound I hear when targeting the gear, or I like things the promoters say, and I buy the gear and start to work, adapting it in my system. I am not being arrogant when I say I think the sound I wind up with is beyond what the seller was thinking during development of the gear, if only because it is my own, personal version of how that piece is put to best use. It is my idea of hi-fi that there is plenty of gear "out there" that might be put to "better use" than one hears on YouTube, or at shows, or in salons, for that matter. This is an outgrowth of my idea that a lot of hi-fi "success" is "accidental" in the early going, at least for my purposes, meaning the developer was not hearing or aiming at what I hear to begin with, and likely not what I wind up with.
Paul S
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