Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT sound comments
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:59:19 -0500

I love good music.  I love good music (pardon me!) in the listening mode.
I prefer to view things directly, but photography is a poor second, a grim
reminder of the reality.

I am on Brian's side on this discussion, for a thousand reasons.  I do
photoraphy as art and as an occasional paying gig.  I listen to music.  An
entirely different experience.  I comprehend that there are folks out there
who can tell the difference between a $9.95, and a $99.50, and a $995.00
cable.

Shit, folks. I have a ten-year-old Radio Shack Dolby tape player in my car.
 I hve a twenty-year-old Radio Shack CD-player and a twenty-year-old set of
speakers with my Radio Shiack amp.

So what?  Any of you folks ever GO to LISTEN to the music yourselves?  I
heard the Grateful Dead in person, and Joplin, and Slick and so forth at
the Free Concerts in Golden Gate Park back in '67 and '68.  I HEARD Steve
Allen play the piano, on a number of occasions.  I have HEARD the Ice Man
croon the best there can be.  The personal experience explodes any claim or
contention that "cables" can ever provide.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!