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In the Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy!

Post Subject: Proscenium I,II,III ad infinitum....Posted by de charlus on: 7/19/2013

I have heard the Proscenium II sounding good/allowing cartridge to sound good/sounding good in a system which for all I know could have sounded considerably better had it been exchanged for a Rega or somesuch, because the system was not my own and I've only spent an hour here and there with it. I can say with certainty that the TT did not sound bad, but I now see that I must have been delusional at the time because if the sequel to this unit sounds genuinely 50% better - so telling an indictment of audio reviewers and manufacturers ejaculating all their best adjectives far too early on in the game - and even if we accept, for the sake of argument, that the Proscenium III is at or near the "state of the art" as we are so often told, then surely 50% of "state of the art" would be anodyne at best, infernal at worst. Really, this backhanded damnation of the Proscenium II by its very own manufacturer is a tragic example of precisely why the pursuit of "high-end" audio is for most a self-perpetuating one, a pursuit cynically strung out by the audio pushers, and a pursuit as likely to bring the pursuer to a state of complete and lifelong satiety as heroin is to the heroin addict. That said, the heroin addict would perhaps seem to have a little more sense than the average audiophile, since at least he experiences bliss on a daily basis, rather than in some hypothetical future that only ever lasts for a week or two, just until he's once again told that whatever he just spent the price of a luxury car on is suddenly defunct due to the existence of some new, 50% superior iteration of what was last week unimpeachable.

de Charlus

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