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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The “Inverted High End Audio” ™
Post Subject: “We do not wash windows anymore…”Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/16/2006

The guys like J.G. Holt brought to the wide public the things, from which “all the crap begun”. Holt was the first who came up in mass-publication with a concept of looking at the music through the dirty window where his new term “transparency” is clearness of that dirty window. I do not think that Holt meant bad but misuse of that and many other allegories lead to the following outcome:

1) Audio Industry instead of producing music imitating machines got converted into the Industry that produces nothing else but the widow polishing liquids

2) By focusing their eyes on the depth of focus where the window is located the industry completely lost association between the “transparency of the window” and the “transparency of the musical image through the window”

That is why I feel that the birth of the official, sponsored and lobbied High-End was actually the beginning of the High-End’s ending. Now, return back to the first post in this thread and read it again…

The caT

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