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In the Thread: The Sakuma's Show
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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