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Post Subject: Talking about those WE demos… + windows shoppingPosted by Romy the Cat on: 4/11/2013

I am with skepticism treat that information about those WE demos. WE never did any interesting playback system solutions that might be stimulating in today home audio environment. At the time when WE was operational the requirements were very different. WE had some interesting elements and some interesting solutions and it would be nice if somebody embrace them and build cotemporary installations with the best that WE offered but it looks like no one does it. Some folks try to replicate some original WE moves but they are truly irrelevant from perspective of today systems design.

What I would like to note is that my comment was not about the WE, Roberts the whore or anything like this. I just noted that the way how the Seoul gentlemen organized his listening space is kind of illustrative to me that he did not find a way to listen his multiple playbacks in order to get his own satisfaction. When I talk about let say my Vtavox drivers I make a picture of my Macondo and my MF Milq, illustrating how I chose to use it and why. I do not shot 12 Vtavox drivers and 16 diaphragms sitting in my basement as in my view it would not be not audio but just a stupid windows shopping.

Wojtek, you might be right in your positions but to me “getting too old” does not mean to change language or façade but rather do not pay attention to unimportant and inconsequential things. All that artificial stink that surrounds not so much WE but the PEOPLE who have a need to create the cult about WE is very inconsequential, this is what I call the Small Talk of Audio. My wife knows that I hate Small Talk and if I force to participate I mock the conversation to very high level absurdity. Some people are not able to handle it. I do not care: do not want to be ridiculed - do not deal with me at Small Talk level.

The ‘route to happiness’ is fine. I very much understand what you mean but let presume that everyone has own definition of route to happiness’, particularly what we are not Small Talking but dealing with creative reality. I have very specific definition of what audio is and very firm conviction of what I might expect from audio. To me audio is very individualistic things, like type of underwear I ware – it is what I feel right and no one else has any business to it. Then there is a social aspect of audio. Many, so many people have absolutely no idea what social aspect I am interested in audio and where my interests of audio interaction lay. I had so many people in audio that I absolutely discarded after literally a few minutes of audio interaction. Some idiots accused me in Asperger syndrome and in all other imaginable “fault” of my. The reality is kind of different. Many years back I was visited Lars Fredel. We spent a very pleasant evening together, listening a lot of music and talking about audio and I felt that something was missing in all of it. Then Lars told me if I want to hear something very very special. I for sure said “yes: and Lars went to his the most precious shelf and took his the dearest CD. He held it as a Christian men would care the original Christ’ Shroud. Then he played it. It was remarkable crap… and Lars with hole of his very evolved audio experience absolutely collapsed in my eyes.

For many years that type of audio interaction is very much key for me. I meet people; I ask them to play to me something that is very important to them. Listening the work and the interpretation after a few bars I draw a conclusion about my audio interest in that person. I never made any mistakes in that. Even what people come to my place and ask me to play music I do very much the same. I play the fugue from Bach- Vivaldi organ concerto BWV 596 and observe the reaction. I want to see in the nperosn what I want to see and if I do not then I have no interests to talk with him neither about crossovers, nor about tonearms or cable elevators.

What I was saying is that from the limited information I get about that Seoul gentlemen I do not “get” that I will have any interest of interacting with him and the amount of WE toys that he collected would not make any difference for me. I have interacted with Joe Roberts and some of his dick suckers. They truly can’t afford to deal with me as I do not sell fear. Anyhow, all that I was saying that the images of that Seoul gentlemen’s’ listening environment do send me a message of his non-seriousness.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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