Fella wrote:
wrote:

Marc Phillips wrote:

Fella said:


We went over to a freinds house with the following setup for an

audition:

CD: Naim cd5
pre amp: Self made passive preamp with step volume.
Power amp: Again self made, tube stuff, some 10W per channel.
Speakers :



http://www.avantgarde-acoustic.de/ho...&produkt=duo&p
rodukt_id=3



Now, I put on my "reference" cd the Buena Vista Social Club with
Ry
Cooder. Took the CD remote in hand, went over to the couch, sat
down

and

pressed play!

The weirdest thing happened. Out of the blue, between my listening
position and the speakers there appeared this waiter kind of a guy

with

tray in hand, stiff, upright posture, penguin black tie tux, a

snotty

british accent and all. As the music played the guy kept plucking
individual sounds of instruments from those big horns, putting
them

on

his service tray and offering them to me, bending slightly,

muttering

things like "Here sir, have some contrabass" or "Would you care
for

some

distinct, isolated, separated saxophone sound, sir". He would

sometime

even go to extreme lengths of silver-lining these sounds before
presenting them to me.

T'was the weirdest experience! Not that I would like to listen to
my


music that way.

The qualities of the homebrew amps aside, it probably wasn't a good

idea to

pair a very upfront-sounding CD player with very, very, very

upfront-sounding

speakers.



It probably wasn't a good idea to ingest a large dose of mescaline
prior to the "listening experience", either.


My point was that one has to hear them to beleive them, these
avantguardes, hence the allegoric metaphor.




Are you sure you aren't just trying out for a position at $tereopile?