Maybe a little bit off topic-ish... But instead of using bogus vocabulary, some audiophiles use bogus visual effects to describe things. If you want to have a laugh, you should check this video:
"On ZZ Top's 1973 breakthrough, Tres Hombres (LP, London Records XPS 631), via the L100s, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill, and drummer Frank Beard practically appeared in my listening room performing a deep cavity frisk of my senses."
What the expression means isn't that 10K carts are affordable; merely that there a lot of them on the market.
I'd be able to easily afford one of those... if the family ate nothing but ramen noodles for a couple of years. Worth it!
I have yet to see a quote that will surpass the absurd claims of Robert Harley from TAS who equated the launch of MQA in his article of September 2017 to a scientific revolution equal to Copernicus supplanting Ptolemy or Eisenstein's relativity taking over from Newton's mechanics.
Here's my favourite, from a review of the Ortofon MC Anna Diamond in Hi-Fi News & Record Review, October 2019. David Price really loves analogies: "This cartridge shows once and for all that things really can snap into focus when a serious pick-up is deployed. It's like peering through the viewfinder of a top-drawer DSLR camera after you have just applied first pressure to the shutter button." "...the MC Anna Diamond picked through each element of the mix, seeming to bolt it down, then weld it to a solid piece of granite. The different multi-tracked guitars were so precisely positioned between my speakers that they could easily have had their own GPS coordinates." Seems a bit OTT - but then, in my opinion, this cartridge needs a bit of hyperbole to justify the £7250 price tag!
That makes me really mad. ‘Cuz Harley’s obviously on some very powerful drugs that he did not share with us. .
Snorting MQA is wrong on so many levels. Obviously one of the side effect is pushing the user to invoke the forbidden "paradigm shift" concept and then try to explain what it is as if none of us had to endure in our past some mind numbing marketing seminars where this was used ad nauseam.
This has to be the winner. I wasn't aware of it so I searched it out. It's an article called "Let the Revolution Begin", and it's impressively over-the-top from start to finish. The arrogance and total dismissiveness of anybody who dares disagree about the stunning achievement of MQA is stunning. I can cross TAS off my list based on that one article.
Soviet film director, one of the pioneers of modern movie techniques such as editing, panning, etc. His physics knowledge however is questionable.
Yes. The typo/slip does not mean the poster is wrong. I consider TAS' shilling for MQA even more morally reprehensible that MQA itself (and MQA is plenty of that) - Shane
Agreed, and by the way, Harley's writing about HDCD (in its day) was very much the same as about MQA these days. HDCD was a revolution, a huge sonic achievement, and so on. He worked for Stereophile then, and carried the same b.s. through to TAS. Those who want to see how it's been done before could look up some of his articles in Stereophile. Another decade, another oversold proprietary codec!