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Post Subject: Indeed, a sad news.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/16/2018
Indeed,
a sad news. The Sakuma was not the person from whom I channel inspirations in
audio but the man was certainly driven by own interesting ideas. My favorite
about his idea to build an amplifier and to set it at the dining table
while it is being built. According to Sakuma the amplifier will witness and embrace
the humanity of people itself and will would more human-like. Definitely for
the visions like this a person should receive Noble price in audio. Still, I
did not experience the things when I visited Sakuma-san. It might be a language
barrier or perhaps I was not in state of mind in that time when I was not able to
perceive a finer things. Another factor is that information about Sakuma come
to me over the people who were lying most of their life and very much wiling to
invent stories and facts. Sakuma was a very minor ploy in their general stream
of deception and mystification. So I have no idea if what I know about Sakuma
is true or not. I personal pilgrimage to Sakuma place, as I said, was not so inspiring.
Saying
all of it I need to admit that Sakuma-san death, equally to the death of any
other audio famed person of his generation is a great equalizer of audio ideas,
notions and philosophies. We are so much so equal and so vulnerable in front of
death that to a degree it makes differences between us so small and so pathetic.
So, reset on peace Sakuma-san and my deepest sympathies to his family, his friends
and his followers. It would be very interesting of somebody who truly know Sakuma-san,
and not somebody who just popularized him, would write (in English) ups an extended
audio biography of Sakuma-san with thoughtful presentation of Sakuma’s views,
ideas, objectives, methodologies, etc… I have my doubts that it will happen as
the people who has voice in audio write mostly to move shipping boxes and if
the Sakuma analyzer would be done with objective to sell remaining Sakuma inventory
then it will be written garbage unworthy reading. The proper writing and analyses
of Sakuma-san work need to be done with no marketing reason and only as a labor
of love. I feel it was the way how Sakuma-san operated as I did not detected in
him any typical profiting tendencies.
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