"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Niels H" wrote in message
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More info and photos at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=230261311133

A one-time boss of mine used to refer contemptuously to "bull****
generators". It seems the description of this amplifier was created by
one.

For example what does:

quote

It delivers music with the usual "arrogance" and glance you might expect
from a tube amp. Yet it totally lacks the tube laziness and tendency to
make me fall sleep.

unquote

mean?, anything? What does "arrogance" sound like, or "glance" (sic) ?
And apparently most tube amplifiers not only have "arrogance", but also
"laziness", what does *that* sound like?. As for the writer falling
asleep, I can think of 1001 reasons why he might do that, but I can't for
the life of me think of any reason why the amplifier (as distinct from the
music) should be one of them.

And then we have the comment that it was: "hand built" and all circuits
are "hard wired". Well in 1958 consumer electronic items *were* hand
built, that's just the way things were, it confers no benefit. And I
dispute that all circuits are "hard-wired" as the valves plug in.

I do get really irritated by this sort of overblown meaningless twaddle.

David.



Hear, Hear!. I wish I had the proverbial Penny for every time somebody
writes similar twaddle describing audio equipment. What is "Pace", "Speed"
"Drive" and all the other meaningless terms seen in reviews and here on News
Groups.

Audio is Engineering, and should be referred to in Engineering terms that
make some sense.

S.
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