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Marc Phillips wrote:


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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?



So that's how you get into such a position? British waiters. Ok, I'll

keep it mind.




I was thinking more of your tendency to hallucinate combined with your
ability to dish up the audio BS. ;-)

You could be the next Jahnaten Scull (aka J-10), who has since departed
$tereopile for a lifetime of Buck$ and BS at Monster Cabal.