wrote:
Here is a link recieved in a mailing list. The author is a high end
manufacture and inventer/developer/author of speakers. He is reporting on
his experience at a recent audio show. He made a specific point of using
low cost audio gear, something around $200 for the lot, to display his
products. I agree with most of his views and would like to see the
reactions of others.

"From Dr. Earl Geddes' site:

http://gedlee.com/downloads/Observations%20and%20Thoughts.pdf"

He went to a high-end show with $200 worth of electronics to drive his
speakers??? That man has guts.

He blames the high-end nutcases for dissuading consumers from pursuing
good sound. There's probably a little truth to that, but most of the
people picking up mini-systems at Best Buy are folks who never would
have been interested anyway (and that's just fine). However, I
thoroughly enjoyed the notion of these drowning high-end guys proposing
to "educate" people about the sound of cables. Better to teach 'em a
little physics, although that would obviously be very bad for business.

At the other extreme, here's a rather charming story from Thursday's
New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/fa...pagewanted=all

Audiophiles will be mortified at the cheap crud being discussed here
(and I do worry about what those records are going to sound like once
they've been played on such things--though they probably haven't been
cared for too well already). But the idea of a little girl finding
boxes of her dad's old LPs in the closet and wanting to hear them (and
maybe digitize a few to work into her school projects) is really what
it's all about--not because it's vinyl, just because it's music. Never
forget that.

bob