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NYTimes article - Stereo Sanctuaries
NYTimes article - Stereo Sanctuaries
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.
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.?""
< http :// www .nytimes,com /2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-medium-t.html>
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David Bath - RAHE Co-moderator
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.
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.?""
< http :// www .nytimes,com /2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-medium-t.html>
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David Bath - RAHE Co-moderator
Re: NYTimes article - Stereo Sanctuaries
"David E. Bath" <davidbath1@bigfoot,com > wrote in message
news:fjkm4l029gb@news3.newsguy,com
> 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>
"David E. Bath" <davidbath1@bigfoot,com > wrote in message
news:fjkm4l029gb@news3.newsguy,com
> 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>
