Re: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital

["Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>]

About as bad as $50 for a feaking piece of plastic with "Leica" on it!!!!
Or $100+ for a 55mm filter!!! Or, about as bad as ......

But I agree with you whole heartedly about high end audio cables!  Ever
notice how the Audio Press never attempts to do objective comparisons
between cables?

Tom  Schofield

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital


> Simillarly off-topic, but on the same topic:
>
> I went into a high-end audio store because I couldn't find the widget I
was
> looking for in my usual low-end audio place...As I stood at the counter I
> noticed various speaker cables on the wall behind the counter.
>
> "How is that $9.95 cable?" I innocently asked.
>
> "$9.95? That's $995, Sir."
>
> "For a freaking piece of wire?"
>
> I left.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Peter Jon
> White
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:23 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital
>
>
> > The high end audio market is a luxury market that is often
> > noted for its
> > cultist tendencies, and has no impact on the production of music.
>
> Indeed. The $8,000 per foot speaker wire infestation is the funniest
aspect
> of this. None of the "true believers" are willing to participate in a
double
> blind test of this nonsense.
>
> I went into a shop the other day to look at cd players. The salesman
assured
> me that I was wasting my money on the player if I didn't also get the $200
> "interconnect" cables. We used to call these "phono" cables but I guess
you
> can't charge enough for "phono" cables. ;-)
>
> I said I'd be happy to consider the cables if he would participate in a
> quick test, a comparison between the $200 cables, and the cables that
> shipped with the player. He would be required to tell me which cables were
> being used. He responded that such tests created a tense atmosphere; not
> conducive to hearing the qualitative differences among cables.
>
> I smiled, and commented on how it would appear that the emperor was naked.
> He didn't get it. I didn't buy it.
>
> Peter Jon White
> Peter White Cycles
> 666 Mass Ave
> Acton, MA 01720
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> 978 929 9654 Fax
> http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com
> mailto:Peter@PeterWhiteCycles.com
>
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> same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks."
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>
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> >
>
>
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