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In the Thread: Kharma Speakers as pH-indicator of the worst in Audio.
Post Subject: … Fine and dandy at the Audio Fronts....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/1/2006

 Gregm wrote:
  Roman notes:

The industry/trend/fashion goes towards "the more aggressive compliance with those sonic sliceing-choping…".

Yes, BUT I don't see this as a design trend. Manufactueres don't target that sound -- but rather are satisfied with it and support it for marketing reasons -- it's easy to make this sound.

 
Sure, and a careful reader might recognize the blaming Kharma for being “worse of the worst” I see it only in context of the pedestal where the Industry put Kharma, also in context of the way in which the industry takes advantages the Kharma’s results. I’m sure the situation makes the Kharma accountants very happy but it is not the point. The point is that regardless (or not) the manufacturer intentions, the industry FORCES any company to comply with a proposed industry-approved sound. Any conformists allowed joint the industry money making feed and I hardly see any manufacture who have integrity (or craziness) do not pursue it.

So, the “bad” in Kharma’s case is not the Kharma itself. Kharma is a manufacture that under normal circumstance does not possess Sound good enough to be discussed by me. However, KHARMA AS THE SYMBOL OF THE INDUSTRY SONIC ASTRAY is very good illustration and I had already see the birth of the Industry high-end of the future. Ten years ago the Industry was pushing to people Spectral-MIT-Avalon-type-of-sound and everyone who was wiling to be profitable went for that Spectral-details-type-of-sound. Nowadays, the Spectral’s gums-torturing are “not enough” nowadays, or at least that marketing campaign have exhausted itself. Nowadays they removed from Spectral-sound any LF harmonics, employed steel woofers and the Kharma-Magico-type-of-sound was born.

Loosing in the Kharma-Magico-type-of-sound the entire “fundamentals range” the industry demo to the Audio Morons the “speed” and “resolution” but it is not the “speed” and “resolution” but just laser-beams of independent frequencies. Thankfully, the Audio Morons hardly know difference. As long as the crap that the Audio Morons experience in their listening rooms corresponds to the crap that they learned from the industry publications everything is fine and dandy…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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