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Somebody sent me a link with the Seoul gentlemen who have those piles of WE gear.

http://blog.silvercore.de/blog/2013/02/01/man%c2%b4s-cave/#more-739

It is interesting warehouse-like looking space that more reminds me Home Depot then listening environment. Anyhow, looking at the pictures the feeling that I got was that all those pile of equipment are not truly operational. I am sure they are functional but not look to be really operational.  The guy who owns all of it obviously has money and for him would not be a problem to build one listening room for himself where he has one single  set of his collection where he would listening his music.  I do not see it happens. The warehouse depicted at the picture is not perfect listening environment and not particularly pleasant. So, were is the creme de la creme of that WE setup and where is the author’s expression of audio?  There is no doubts that WE  did some interesting steps but there is a huge difference between collecting horns, drivers and amplifiers and be able to make all of it to work as one well organized artistic impressions. The system owner then need to learn how to consume that artistic impressions but that is a whole another story….

The point that I would like to make is that from the images I have seen I do not see anything else in that Seoul gentlemen then WE gear collector, or the person whose audio interests exists primary to feed the interests of marketing whores of Joe Roberts types. I might be wrong but truly do not see how a person who has his own advanced objectives in sound reproduction and has means to address it would not go for it. It would be like a woman who loves shiny stones but who buy diamonds and then cover them with roofing compound.

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