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In the Thread: The 'nature' of said realities.
Post Subject: A somewhat guarded apology...Posted by Manitou on: 11/11/2007
Okay,
First, thank you for responding so fully or roundly(?) to my reply.
Second, I apologise for any annoyance caused by my missive(s). I had my doubts at the time, and was a little fluey to boot. Not an excuse.
Third, the guarded apology bit. The 'Manitou' ID is correctly assumed to be tied to the Beliefs of most indiginous people, re: interconnectedness of all things (a future of Physics(etc)?) exploring our perception-vs-or, in relation to-'Reality' and arriving at potent, yet malleable conclusions (a future of Philosophy(etc)?). I've used 'Manitou' to attempt to describe a state of the art. I've been using it for years. My original company was and may again be called Manitou Audio. I intend to introduce something interesting soon.
Anyhow, being neither a Philosopher nor a Physicist (and certainly not a "New-Age-ist", whatever that is) but a sound/music lover, equipment designer and builder, I employ the aforementioned and other disciplines. To ignore anything possible in the persuit of sound/music transduction (from original sound source-to-ear and everything in-between) would, I think, be stupid. I feel that the more colours (probably metaphorically?) one has in one's palette (in the persuit of ANY given aim) the more realistically one can 'paint'. If one is serious, that is.
I imagine these things relate directly to the notion of this site. I don't do threads, I barely relate to the notion. I joined and contributed to this because I was interested in the apparent commitment of its creator to persue ultimate transduction, regardless of the trials, tribulations and hypemongers. I like the palette he seems to employ and his overall attitude to the art. I respect his enthusiasm.
I know what you mean about the thread (whatever that may be, kidding) being slow and about 'spicing-up' my(?) thread by introducing some notions of psycho-acoustics and the likes. Olson and others have pretty much covered the fundamentals though. The human-animal bit? Hmmm... I dunno.
I like something progressive, perhaps more joined-up, new even.
Elevating any element of the process of transduction above another is difficult to justify, although I have individually experimented with mercury/other cabling (interesting, but (mercury) truly awful overall) huge, battery-only supplies (not great) electrostatic and optically-based record pick-ups (varied) all manner of drive unit design (electrostatic/ribbon/plasma/integrated hybrids/etc........)(allsorts) and many other ideas. These experiments have substantially improved my knowledge and therefore I'm glad I spent so much time and effort trying them out. Eventually they seemed to lead to something more centered in terms of overall design which I value and am actively persuing now.
Finally, I don't think 'Romy' needs to do anything. This may already be an area of never to be resolved, circular debates. It may not. I don't know which of these possibilities has more value. Perhaps the enthusiasm of the debate itself is what does it for me!
...Venn diagrams...
Anyhow, thanks for your reply,
Christopher Jorna
P.S. Why Brimar???
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