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Years back, when I was doing B/W photography very serious (I was 12-14 then), I always had in my mind an idea of “different” film processing methods. I had a notion that film shell be developed in a certain way, very different they it was done by default D76 developer. I do not want to load people with technical detail – no one will understand it anyhow but my purely abstract vision at that time was after a few year of my experiment materialized in an absolute stunning recipe of developer that use 4 developing agents: Metol, Hydroquinone, Glycin, Phenidone in unique combination; a very mild PH environed with alkaline made from sodium sulfate’s own “PH feedback”; with extremely low, virtually non-present restrainers that cooked film by my envisioned “starvation-saturation” atmosphere. It did the necessary .65 gamma nut by very different means and while it gained file density it did some other inimitable things (like the border-effect of the silver halides’ grains, the quality of tone and many other… ) that made my developer very different from another else. If what I arrived in US the world still have interest and commercial state in high-end B/W then I thought to license my developer to Kodak and many a lot of money on it. Well, that boat had already sailed even in the beginning of 90s….

Doing audio I am ironically have the very same adolescent attitude toward to drivers – I always feel that might discover some secretive driver that would do everything different. Some people and perhaps myself have the same syndrome with tubes as well. With all intellectuals understanding of the naivety of this thinking I have to admit that it always happen to me. I have “discovered” the Fane 8M driver and then I discovered the S2 driver. I did not invent them but I adopted their results is a way I have seen before….

So the thing do happens like this and it is very possible that there is a “next” better driver for my application and it is possible that French-made Ferrivox might be one of those finds. The treasuries revile themselves to the people who dig holes in ground…

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