[Andre Jute]

Ludovic Mirabel ) wrote:
Mr. Jute, my poor jokes fell on stony ground.

Oh no, not at all, my dear fellow. It is I who must apologize most
profusely that my jokes were so subtle that they caused you to
embarrass yourself in public. Chris Hornbeck did recently warn both me
and those of his fellow-Americans less sophisticated than him:

You write with a humor style somewhere drier than Brut,
so shouldn't complain when Americans miss the tongue in
cheek.
-- Chris Hornbeck to Andre Jute

We should all have paid more attention.

As I say, I'm sorry that it happened to a fellow with stacked Quads,
whom I would otherwise have expected to stand shoulder to shoulder with
me against the barbarians. Don't feel bad about it. You are in noted
company, including Krueger, Pinkostinko, MeKelpie, Poopie, Pompass
Plodnick (was that Magnequest Scummie's name Pasternick, something like
that), and suchlike genealogical accidents too impressed by themselves
to laugh at the world.

But all is not lost. I am always vastly entertained when people tell me
how great their wit is, and especially when they tell me how much
wittier they are than poor little old me. I admire them for aiming as
high as the certified gold standard, even when they manage only to
pucture their self-esteem against my ankles. I imagine that eventually,
if they are not too stupid, they learn that wit isn't claimed but
demonstrated.

Thanks for the entertainment.

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/T...re%20Jute.html


wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
wrote:

And which "much more expensive" speaker system outclasses even the
second best Lowther?

Here is a classification of the best speakers ever made:

1. Quad first series ESL of 1957. The speaker designer's reference.

I'l have a drink to that. All is for the best in this best of the
possible worlds now that I have your word that I own the best in the
world.. Four stacked Quad Esl 57 are residing right now in a place of
honour in my listening room.


2. Quad ESL63 of 1981.

3. Tannoy Royal Westminster horn. This is such a rare and expensive
beast, many don't count it, putting the Lowther below in third
position.

4. Any Lowther driver in a horn is a contender. The classical Lowther
drivers are not ranked by number or price but as units with their
enclosures. Fidelio horns to my ears sound best with PM6A, which are
about midway up the present price scale of Lowther drivers, though the
Fideliio enclosure is expensive to build.

This is my version of the Fidelio
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...20T91HWAF3.jpg
and on one of these pics you can see my ESL63 behind the Fidelio horn
on test
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...0T68MZ417A.jpg

How was this classification arrived at?

Experience. Taste. Judgement. Consultation. Over forty years in the
concert halls.

Was it
checked with Mr. Krueger for the ABX approval?

Mr. Jute, my poor jokes fell on stony ground. Cheer up and lighten
up- you're not alone. Paul Packer who is is much funnier than I'll ever
be has the same problem with equally deadly serious Arny Krueger. What
happened to the famous English sense of humour? Or did it emigrate to
Australia to join Paul and left you behind all alone and easily upset?
On reflexion maybe I'm throwing my hat up in the air about my Quads too
soon. If your taste matches your reading comprehension....


LOL.

Since you're so keen to show how "scientific" you are, sure, I have
ABXed ESL and horns behind a curtain.

The tests told me which of my
subjects (generally practising musicians, some with worldclass
reputations) have the taste to agree with me. The vast majority choose
either of the ESL (depending on specialty, for instance singers
absolutely adore the ESL57), then the horn, then any point source
speaker (including one I designed to be built for under 200 bucks a
pair

Now that we know which is the FOURTH best speaker in the world- did
you "test" any others? Like five or six or seven or a hundred and two?
On the other hand it does not matter because I think that "testing"
speaker preferences by ABXing is self-defeating nonsense. That's how
"scientific" I am.
You still don't give us a progress report about the part played by Mr.
Ludwig in the Chinese Communist party conspiracy to keep you out of the
limelight. Mr. Jute the preceding is a leg-pull, a LEG-PULL. Get it?
Don't worry it will all turn out OK. Hope this helps.
Regards. Yours Ludovic M.

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http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...Impresario.jpg ),
and only then multi-driver boxes of any persuasion; another notable
trend was that the bigger the box, the more likely it was to be chosen,
which puts bookshelf speakers in their place. The smaller the
mutltidriver boxes, the more electronics they need to gimmick the sound
right, the less chance they have from behind the curtain with certified
golden ears. Interestingly, when I tried a Yamaha DSP (whose effects I
loved to bits -- now that's a *great* use of silicon) as the amp,
virtually the entire test group complained of "unnatural sound" on all
the speaks.

Mystery upon mystyery.

Nah, only if you let the meterheads bull**** you. When you bring the
best to test the best, the coincidence between blind and sighted tests
is always very striking. One can always trust the taste of cultured
people of some achievement (I'm not talking of trendies and hangers-on
and bureaucrats now -- their opinion is what I tell them it should be).

Ludovic Mirabel

Hope this helps.

Andre Jute
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