The main reason valves & vinyl is better...
 

Yehbut that makes you normal. With no place on this group. ;-)

Rats!!

No, Rats is rec.audio.tubes.........

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The main reason valves & vinyl is better...
 

Is because I ****ING SAY SO!

I totally agree.

It's the height of arrogance and incredibly ignorant to assume that you
*know* that another person's perception of a subjective issue is wrong.

However, in the real physical world, things are simpler.

What can be simpler than saying, "I prefer the sound of x over y"?

Why complicate such a response by debating its merit based on irrelevant
science?

Good music generates a visceral response - why must one man's preference for
one amp over another be called into question at all?

If the response is good, then the artist's work has been served by the
equipment used in its reproduction, whether it be valves, SS, live, vinyl,
CD or MP3.

No one can claim to speak for an experience which they have not lived.
You
are not me, therefore you cannot with any respectability, tell me that my
choice of hifi, cable, source - anything that I have chosen as
preferable -
is wrong.

We could however point to glaring problems with its fidelity to the
source material! :-)

We could but it still doesn't alter my preference for x over y and, as I
state, if my choice stirs something greater inside of me, then surely the
artist is better served then if I listen on equipment which, to my ears and
mind, present the music in an inferior manner.

In matters of taste, no one can arbitrate what is right or wrong without
exposing themselves to charges of "pompous, arrogant ****" - hence my
hifi
is better than yours :oP

I don''t recall any such argument being proposed, in matters of taste.
Of course, there's nothing quite so pompous and arrogant as assuming
that one person has 'better' taste than another - Chavs excepted! :-)

Who-oh-oh - what's chavs got to do, got to do with it?

Still, if reading the odd article about "youth culture" in The Independent
helps to keep you grounded, then feel free to elbow in the reference - even
if it does make you look pompous and arrogant :oP

The main reason valves & vinyl is better...
 

Is because I ****ING SAY SO!

I totally agree.

It's the height of arrogance and incredibly ignorant to assume that you
*know* that another person's perception of a subjective issue is wrong.

No one can claim to speak for an experience which they have not lived.
You
are not me, therefore you cannot with any respectability, tell me that
my
choice of hifi, cable, source - anything that I have chosen as
preferable -
is wrong.

In matters of taste, no one can arbitrate what is right or wrong without
exposing themselves to charges of "pompous, arrogant ****" - hence my
hifi
is better than yours :oP


OK, I hope it is, then I know you'll have a fekkin' *blinding* system!!

('Cos mine ain't too ****e, I can tell ya!! ;-)

That may be so, but my penis is of considerable length and girth and my
father possesses advanced pugulative skills.

Rock on, Tommy.....

:-)

Did you stretch your braces as you said that? Don't let them snap back on
yer nipples.

The main reason valves & vinyl is better...
 

"Keith G" wrote in message ...
(...)

Lurkers? Support?

http://www.bluejo.demon.co.uk/poetry...ia/lurkers.htm

The people I referred to are posting here (a damn sight more than you
do)......

Wonder why that is...


(Not binned.)

Wow, thanks. I shall now be able to sleep easy and I might even be
able to give up the valium and electric-shock therapy.

S.

The main reason valves & vinyl is better...
 

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:25:39 +0100, Dodge McRodgered
wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" emitted :

In matters of taste, no one can arbitrate what is right or wrong
without exposing themselves to charges of "pompous, arrogant ****" -
hence my hifi is better than yours :oP


It works like this. There are three groups of people A) People of normal
hearing who like vinyl and valves. B) People with defective hearing who
prefer SS. C) People with defective hearing and tourettes syndrome who
are unable to prevent themselves from making inapprorpriate comments to
the people in Group A.

Ok then.

Choose your favourite work. Get hold of the master tape. Have copies made
- using the finest technicians, equipment and materials available - to
both LP and CD.

Now set up a bet. You have to tell - without seeing, only listening, which
is the master and which is the CD.

The person with 'defective hearing' has to tell which is the master and
which the LP.

Let's make it best out of 10.

The bet? How about 10,000 quid. I'll put up that and you do the same.

Winner takes all, after expenses, naturally. Are you on?

No? I wonder why...

Wooosh.... Sorry Dave, I can't push my tongue into my cheek any
firmer than I already did ;-)

Funny how the valvies always claim it was a joke, when a reality check
is called on their egregious insults..........................

Hey, we could get Churches to make both copies, just to ensure that
you have a world-class LP..................... :-)
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