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Post Subject: Naming the amplifiers….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/18/2006
 behhl wrote: |
| Hi Romy, but I am simply curious that your Designed-&-Made-Yourself have always had the flavour of the names and places from A Hundred Years of Solitude ... Macondo the village, Melquiades the gypsy ... so why the departue now to Zarathustra? Perhaps you will reconsider to name it Segundo? [tongue in left cheek] Perhaps even the title AHYoS may clue us as to the point of this DMY equipment? [tongue in right cheek] |
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Yes, it is a luck of consistency. In really everything is very simple. The Melquiades I named because it was my amp, conceptually, ideologically and sonically. Dima and some others folks (primary Dima) greatly helped with Melquiades’s creation but I was the main driving force, therefore I find that I had rights to name it. Zarathustra is very different story. Zarathustra is Dima’s amp, his design, his implementation, his conceptualization and so on… Zarathustra was the name that Dima came up with last year wan I proposed him to name the amp. Dima built a few Zarathustras as one is sitting in his home. My contribution to the entire Zarathustra project was juts moving Zarathustra into pure Class “A” and helping to facilitate the amplifier’s mechanics. To all the rest I have no relation, including naming the amp.
Interesting that naming of an amp could be ridiculously important. Let leave the metaphors aside. The amps name is the way in which the amp might be referred. Ironical some people convert those reference names into absurd. It is customary that I keep bitching about Lamm electronics but Lamm is a great example how naming of product could become ridicules. Many people, including me and including Lamm business associates, with whom I spoke over the phone about Lamm’s electronics were confused in the endless tang twisting:ML1, ML2, M1.1, ML1.2, ML2.1, M1.2, M2.1, ML1.1, M2.2 and so on and so on… I do not know why Lamm did not provide more distinctive names. Perhaps he was saving money on front panel paint or was trying to make this customers and dealers be confused in the infinite colloquialisms of upgrades and models... Who knows….
Rgs,
Romy the Cat
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