"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:59:56 -0000, "Keith G"
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:31:56 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


Anybody see where I'm going with this?

(Clue 01: *Hobby*....)

(Clue 02: Feck-all to do with *the industry*.....)




Keith! We've got it already!

We'd got it months ago.



But you *haven't*...!!

There's been no *hobby* in this group for months (years?) now...

(rant about crossposted slanging matches and the interminable 'techie'
arguments from so-called 'pros' snipped)

OK, never mind.....

Probably because the hobby aspect has pretty much died out - for good
reason. Back in the '60s when I got started, it was possible to build
a better amp than you could buy, and definitely possible to build
better speakers, and save lots of money into the bargain.


If you don't believe it still is then *you* have no place here - unless this
*isn't* an hobbyist group, when *I* have no place here. You say, I'm easy...



Such is no longer possible, since modern speakers, even towards the
budget end from the 'big guns' like B&W and KEF, use highly advanced
design and manufacturing techniques to provide sound quality,
particularly in the cabinets and crossovers, which simply isn't
available to the home builder - particularly since Dynaudio stopped
supplying drivers to hobbyists. Focal are perhaps the last supplier of
decent drivers to the hobbyist (please don't mention that Lowther
dreck!), but where do you get the cabinet and crossover designs which
contribute at least 30% of the sound quality?

Amplifiers have of course been a done deal for a couple of decades,
and I simply wouldn't waste my time building an amp these days.


Fair enough. No-one's asking/expecting you to.

I don't expect that you are *into* fine art much, but take my word that
there hasn't been much to touch the work from the Renaissance period from
some 500 years ago - are you saying that everyone should roll over and chuck
away their brushes...??