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Post Subject: Kharma misery is bigger juts the Kharma ProblemPosted by Romy the Cat on: 11/30/2006
Paul.
you marvelously identified the characteristic Kharma Sound. However, what is very important to understand in my attitude toward Kharma that the Kharma Sound has much more “negative load” with itself then juts being a poor sound from a manufactures. Kharma, as any other manufacture, is perfectly at liberty to make any Sound they wish. They are many poor sounding speakers out there, so why I decided to bitch explicitly about Kharma declaring this company’s signature sound as the worst of the worst in the contemporary audio?
Because the Stupid Audio Industry ™ IS TRYING TO PROMOTE that the “chopped music up into little pieces” or the Kharma-type Sound as a unified, default sound of “better audio”. You see, the industry is building itself up around the Kharma-type Sound. Anything new in the Industry is scrutinized from a perspective if it could slice-chop music deeper and more aggressively. The more violent that “sliceing-choping” takes place in any component/systems/topology the more “wonderfully sounding” the component is declared by the Industry. Look what the Industry is pushing as “advanced”: the cables, the electronics, the speakers, the digital formats, the cartridges…. whatever they promote as “best” in fact do better the only one thing – the more aggressive compliance with those sonic sliceing-choping…
More widely, the Industry’s aiming to the sliceing-choping has lead to a semi-permanent damage of listing awareness for very many persons who plugged in the Industry. The supererogatory reviewers and the other superfluous marketing dirt are already dead, the manufactures, some of them, are mildly trying to resist but they are in the business of “doing business” and they can’t afford do not supply demands. So, the problem with all of this that the Industry’s glorification of Kharma Results creates within the minds of mostly ignorant, gullible and generally not very bright audio consumers A SENSE OF THE “SLICEING-CHOPING“ DEMANDS. Then, since the faulty demands has been implanted into the minds of the Audio Morons ™ it is very simple to see how companies like Kharma could be a “solution”.
The real solution is in fact at the very opposite end. As I suggested many time before:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=2951
any real solution in Audio might be started from a COMPLETE ELIMINATION the entire brain-washing machinery of the industry propaganda, would it be a real elimination or perceptual elimination. Juts hypothetically: if “the Bad Arabs” blow up a CES building during the Stereophile’s black sabbath meeting, with all Industry reviewing, dealing, editorial and other low-life scams in it, then in a couple of years the general quality of sound in American listening rooms would go much higher.
So, as you can observe form what I say, it is not juts the” bad Kharma loudspeakers”. The Kharma sound is juts a smoke of a much larger fire. That why I call Kharma as a pH-indicator of the worst in Audio.
Rgs,
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