Serge Auckland wrote:

"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.


Ahem - audio *equipment* is engineered. You're doing pretty well if you
can describe audio in general, and music in particular, in engineering
terms. The odd flowery adjective can be forgiven to describe music, I feel.

Rob