Re: audio culture nonsense?

"Harry Lavo" <hlavo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:flr69102ic8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Have you ever owned high-powered monoblocks?

Interesting how a discussion of sound quality gets morphed into a
discussion 
of property rights.

> Have you ever even heard a high-end system with them in a
> favorable environment, using other equipment you respect?

Interesting how the discussion of property rights morphs into a discussion

of admission to a demonstration.

For the record, Steven and I walked around HE2005 together for a while,
and 
if that wouldn't be an op****tunity to hear high end systems in favorable 
environments, what would be?  (For the record - the quality of the demo 
rooms as acoustic venues varied, but some were quite good).

> Well, I own a five channel system using high-power
> monoblocks, and I could describe the changes I heard
> versus my other sterep SS amps and VTL amps very much the
> same way...

I have no problems with pride of owner****p, as long as I don't have to 
suspend too much disbelief while reading exhibitions of it.

> I would probably describe the changes as
> being a bit more subtle...but many revieweres nowadays
> do.

With reviewers writing about "dancable cables" why would they be cited as
a 
source of reliable information?

> And I might not attribute them totally to this
> equipment, but to the equipment as a representative and
> high-quality example of the breed (one of my favorite
> gripes against reviews these days is that folks are given
> equipment to review without the requisite previous
> experience to separate out the unit under test from the
> generic category).

Harry, what technical advantage might monoblocks have that cannot ever or 
has not ever be duplicated with multichannel amplifiers?

> May I suggest that once again you are taking a stand
> simply assuming you know the truth.

Steven has more chops as an audiophile than that.

>  When you have no first-hand basis for doing so.

Come on Harry, I saw you at HE2005. You mean you never passed Steven in
the 
hallways there?