On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:59:13 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Andre Jute" wrote in message
roups.com...

Keith G wrote:


I'm most definitely a SeTtie (worked my way up to it) but the *absence*
of
the usual crossposting encourages me to read further...

These are considerations of culture rather than technicalities.


Culture without etiquette is like a snake with no head...

Hmmm, I find 'culture' without etiquette definitely has fangs......

The smaller and lower-powered the better. There is a suspicion held by
more ultrafidelista than just the microwatters that higher power in
itself interferes with desirable delicacy in one's sound.

Yes, I'm very hip to the 'Zen' of flea-power amps moving serious air with
large, sensitive speakers, myself.

The idea of an arc-welder driving a pair of ironing boards is a bit like a
V8 motorcar being driven with the handbrake permanently on, in my book......

Isn't that very *American* - needing 200 watts to do 55 mph....??? :-)

Ah, but my ironing boards are lifting bodies, and can do Mach 5!

Your approach is more like a Sinclair C5, lots of squawking but no
real progress................... :-)

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering