Now in the house tonight we have here on the right, the scientists, the physicists and the equipment manufacturers, the engineers and the measurement gurus.
Now over here on the left we have the subgectivenists, the belivers in voodoo and cables, the listeners the people who confess to knowing nothing of the technology, but whose hearing is so way above average that they can hear a fuse, a cable or a mains plug.
Sorry, but I will run for cover before this discussion begins. Oh but it begun thirty years ago and still no result, why not I ask, well I think I know, why, it is exactly like discussing religion and science, one is based on blind belief and the other on understanding.
Is it any wonder the two cannot agree, now I visited the show at Heathrow last year and many exhibits were from the 'blind belief camp' and I have to say that I heard nothing new or impressive. So maybe a little part of my brain says that this is 'not the answer', maybe forty year old technology is not the way forward, maybe we need to look at something new.
Then I look at what is happening at the bottom end of the market, class 'D' amps, DSP filters, non 'monkey coffin' speakers, yes real developments going on but simply not at the 'esoteric' end, that, unfortunately still seems to be stuck in the forty year time warp.
John...
