Iain Churches wrote:
>
> "Patrick Turner" <info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:482A9A0B.16D3F7C0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > I only had one customer asking for red; and to match the colour of
> > Cabernet Sauvignon.
> >
> > Most want black, or black, and some also wanting black,
> > with the remainder wanting black as well....
> >
>
> :-)))
>
> I took a tube RIAA stage to show to a dealer who had
> expressed an interest in it. We sat together in his listening
> room, and played some LPs of his choice. He looked
> pleased. He was silent for a long time, and then said,
> "Sorry, I can't sell this. It's black"
>
> http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches/Pics/ValveRIAA02.jpg
>
> I thanked him for his time and the coffee, and put
> my amp under my arm.
>
> On the way out, I noticed that every single unit in the shop
> was silver anodised. Most had blue-lit dials, and apart from
> the maker's logo looked identical:-)
>
> It's nice to be different:-)
>
> Iain
There was a time in about 1975 when anodized bright and brushed
aluminium
was the peak of putting on the agony, and putting on the style.
Meters had green or yellow background lighting, and blue LEDs hadn't
been invented.
Then everything went black, and people complained they had to have a
torch
to find the "play" button, or the "on" switch.
Fa****on has swung back to the silver look for much stuff.
But have you surveyed the colors of major hi-end gear?
Anyway, in Orstraya, which is at some large distance away from full
civilisation
and its fickle changing trendiness, ie, it is culturally "astray",
people wanting decent tube amps are very accepting of black.
They still like black speakers.
They even didn't mind my use of polished brass chassis which tended to
tarnish.
Real metal though.
Black was brought to hi-fi gear because it was cheaper to make,
and it covered a multitude of minor defects in a design.
But now the mass market colured junk is all moulded plastic.
Fake metalwork.
And once dropped, it splits and breaks, and you buy another....
Patrick Turner.
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