"David E. Bath" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Interesting article on how Men build there own
> sanctuaries with stereos and AV systems.
> "But for more than half a century, men have also had
> stereos. Fifty years ago in this magazine, Meyer Berger
> described the emerging clique of high-fidelity boys.
> Berger?s description of that crowd applies equally well
> to the 2007 technophiles currently consolidating digital
> fiefs by installing Sony Bravias - on which "watching
> grass grow is fundamentally exciting," as Sony's
> chairman, Howard Stringer, recently said.
Shows one thing that is wrong with Sony. If they think that a me-too LCD
HDTV is going to have that sort of dramatic effect, they are prisoners of
their own hype.
> Hi-fi "takes in the thin purse and the fat," Berger wrote
> in 1953, "the humble listener who likes his music best at
> parlor pitch and the hot-eyed and intemperate fanatic
> whose chief pursuit is not music but extremes in sound -
> the lowest booming bass; the highest biting note,
> tremblingly caught before it takes off for infinity.?""
IOW both mid-fi and high end can be high fi, no matter what the high end
elitists say.
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-medium-t.html>
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