Julf wrote: > Heh, yes... "These were exciting, ground-breaking and pioneering days in > hi-fi. Linn and Naim were the first manufacturers to talk about music. > How a system has to swing, have rhythm. They talked about their systems > only in terms of music not treble, bass and midrange."
That quote is a satire of itself! Poe's Law is in effect here. I must admit though, I used to fall for that stuff at one time. I actually bought a Linn Sondek LP12 from Havens and Hardesty in Huntington Beach in the early 1980s. When I picked it up, I saw a few copies of what looked like a cross between a comic book and a Linn advertisement on the counter. Thinking it was promotional material, I took two different ones with me when I took the turntable home. When I got home, I looked at it and saw there was a price tag of something like $5.00 for each issue. So, unbeknownst to me, I had shoplifted two copies of The Flat Response! I read them both and they were completely nuts! The cover of one of them, which was apparently accusing Martin Colloms of being in cahoots with Japanese manufacturers, had a racist depiction of a Japanese guy that looked like WWII propaganda. There were quotes from Ivor Tiefenbrun saying that you couldn't have any speakers in the room other than the ones you were using, not even a telephone! At the time, I wrote it off as just Tiefenbrun being a highly eccentric character. Little did I know that this kind of thing would become the norm in high-end audio, and Tiefenbrun would be thought of as some sort of genius. Even now, thinking about "The Flat Response" still makes me laugh. There used to be a site that had scans of every issue, but it appears to be gone now. I wish I had downloaded them all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andy_c's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3128 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105507
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