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Interesting article on how Men build there own sanctuaries with
stereos and AV systems.

"But for more than half a century, men have also had stereos. Fifty
years ago in this magazine, Meyer Berger described the emerging clique
of high-fidelity boys. Berger?s description of that crowd applies
equally well to the 2007 technophiles currently consolidating digital
fiefs by installing Sony Bravias - on which "watching grass grow is
fundamentally exciting," as Sony's chairman, Howard Stringer, recently
said.

Hi-fi "takes in the thin purse and the fat," Berger wrote in 1953,
"the humble listener who likes his music best at parlor pitch and the
hot-eyed and intemperate fanatic whose chief pursuit is not music but
extremes in sound - the lowest booming bass; the highest biting note,
tremblingly caught before it takes off for infinity.?""

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-medium-t.html
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Interesting article on how Men build there own
sanctuaries with stereos and AV systems.


"But for more than half a century, men have also had
stereos. Fifty years ago in this magazine, Meyer Berger
described the emerging clique of high-fidelity boys.
Berger?s description of that crowd applies equally well
to the 2007 technophiles currently consolidating digital
fiefs by installing Sony Bravias - on which "watching
grass grow is fundamentally exciting," as Sony's
chairman, Howard Stringer, recently said.


Shows one thing that is wrong with Sony. If they think that a me-too LCD
HDTV is going to have that sort of dramatic effect, they are prisoners of
their own hype.

Hi-fi "takes in the thin purse and the fat," Berger wrote
in 1953, "the humble listener who likes his music best at
parlor pitch and the hot-eyed and intemperate fanatic
whose chief pursuit is not music but extremes in sound -
the lowest booming bass; the highest biting note,
tremblingly caught before it takes off for infinity.?""


IOW both mid-fi and high end can be high fi, no matter what the high end
elitists say.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-medium-t.html


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