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Post Subject: Tonally dead versus dead to tonality, and KahutekPosted by Paul S on: 8/3/2007
It is entirely possible to find and develop something of relative value working with a challenged toplolgy, even if the limitations of the topology dictate that "ultimate" results will fail to reach the Aural Summit.
If you hear something that works for you, then work it.
I don't believe that the S2, for instance, is any guarantee of tonal truth and beauty; and its average user might not be able to do any better with an S2 than he could do with, say, an Altec driver.
As it just so happens, I am presently using more transformers in the signal path than I ever set out to do. I do not hear resonance so much as I hear a sort of subtle reconstituting of the sound, and perhaps some restriction of ultimately natural dynamics. Whether this is "good" or not is moot, especially when there several considerations driving the decision to go one way or the other. In any case, the question becomes, how much of this "works" and when does it become a cumulative and/or net liability?
And the same can be said of any particular genre, much to the hackles-up annoyance of The Defenders of Any Particular Faith.
Sakuma is a phenomenon, like a comet. His products are his tail.
Best regards,
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