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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Audio critique – open your mind!
Post Subject: Sancho Panza of Las VegasPosted by Romy the Cat on: 6/23/2006

 jweiss wrote:
As you sent me a link to this thread, I imagine you would like a response.

It seems to me that creating a useful thread on this subject on this website would require you talking about sound systems you have heard and liked, as opposed to the long list of things you despise which comprise a good deal of the territory here. It is true that audio is a disaster area, and you are a chronicler of its destitution. Personally, I enjoy your Don Quixote antics. But it would stretch the imagination that in all your travels and experiences, you have not heard good sound anywhere but your own home system, which is often the received impression. Perhaps you can share with us some of the high points of systems you have heard and liked in your peregrinations, both in small rooms and in large ones? Maybe you can even be specific in describing what you liked? As a newcomer here, perhaps I just missed your happy reviews, and only have read the sad ones. I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction as to how to locate your positive comments about anything in audio, minus of course what you yourself have built, bought or otherwise claimed as your own.

Having an idea of what you indeed liked, in contrast to what you hate, might give a better picture of what you are up to, no?
Jonathan,

I do not think you “got” the subject of this thread. It is not about what I have heard and what I might like. It is not about the sound in my room (that I admire much less then you might believe), your room or anybody else's rooms. What my proposed by you description of reportedly good sound would add to the fact of audio people’s disability to talk honesty and without egos about audio and about the actual results that they accomplish or experience? Once again it is not about “happy reviews” and not about me. It is more about us and, we everybody should look at ourselves and learn how our fears and ego effect our better judgments.

The CaT

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