I
would say that a great cable design is in equal measure a combination of science,
logic, intuition, voodoo and dumb luck.
Joe Cohen PranaWire USA
If
it doesn’t match your room, change your room.
Alan Sircom
HiFi+ Magazine
Het
aanknopen van een absoluten spitzenklasse met een ueber referenz
is nog geen garantie voor gluckliche weihnachten.
Ron Ploeger
What
sells best and sounds good is not necessarily what sounds best.
Michelle
Surdie 6moons
You
do not buy my turntable, you get married to it.
J.C.Verdier
A
classic example: An audiophile believes that a specific product performs exactly
as the manufacturer says it does. He hears what he’s been told he’ll
hear, and so has bought into the manufacturer’s advertising claims. Then,
along comes a set of measurements that directly contradicts what he’s been
told, and thus what he claims to hear. This situation can be embarrassing to the
audiophile, even stressful, and the easiest way out of it is to dismiss the measurements
altogether. After all, if the manufacturer states A, and I hear A, then B just
can’t be.
Jeff Fritz Soundstagenetwork
Eine
HiFi-Anlage kann nur das verarbeiten, was ihr vom plattenspieler angeboten wird.
J.C.Verdier HiFi Exclusif 1980
Interpreteer
niet - luister. Als je interpreteert kun je niet luisteren, want het bewustzijn
kan niet twee dingen tegelijk doen. Als je begint te denken houdt het luisteren
op.
OSHO Het boek van Niets
Whatever
makes you happy is the best technology.
Flemming Rasmussen Gryphon
Audio
If
the performance is not convincing enough to make you part with your money, it
is overpriced.
Flemming Rasmussen Gryphon Audio
Trakteer
uw zinnen en vul het gat waar digitaal doorheen ging.
Dean Smith
Analogue Audio Amsterdam 1989
Het
belangrijkste component in een succesvolle highend audioset is het overzicht.
Ron Ploeger
Leif
Johannsen listens to audiophile records, normal records, favourite records, all
kind of music. He alternates between very intense listening sessions of an hour
or so at a time, then lots of casual listening. Leif tells: ” It’s surprising
sometimes how much you can catch from casual listening. Eventually I’ll narrow
my prototypes down to two, which will measure and sound very similar to one another.
But if one sounds better and the other measures better, we’ll go with the
one that sounds better even if we can’t explain why. Audio design has come
a long way, but there is still a lot we don’t know.”
Ortofon Denmark.
Dogma
free zone.
Nick Doshi Doshi-Audio
De
Olympische Audiospelen.
Ard van Keekem
All
amplifiers sound the same.
Peter Walker†
Quad
This
beeing the entertainment industry, I hope everyone is having a good time.
Nelson
Pass
Testsieger
kommen und gehen.
Acapella Audio Arts
A
good high-end system holds your attention, tricking you into thinking you're listening
to real people playing live. As a result you give the music (and performers) total
attention and respect - just as you would at a live event. If chatting to a friend
as the music plays is more interesting than listening, the system's not doing
its job.
Jimmy Hughes HiFiChoice
Someone
who knows an awful lot about the subject once told me that the output transformers
are 80% of a valve power amp, while the volume control is 80% of any preamp.
Roy
Gregory HiFi+
Gutes
Design wiederum ist die Reduktion aufs Wesentlich.
Helmut Brinkmann
It's
when a neutral component is in your system for awhile and then you take it out,
only then do you realize its impact. Neutrality is something that kind of sneaks
up on you; it's not something that is noticeable on a quick demo.
Luke
Manley.
There
is nothing worse than a big screen TV between your speakers.
R.
Rog
If
it measures good and sounds bad, it is bad; if it measures bad and sounds good,
you've measured the wrong thing!
Maxim
Iemand
met inzicht blijft ontspannen. Hij geniet van alles wat hij doet in de wetenschap
dat het altijd onvolmaakt is en nooit volmaakt kan worden. Maar hij geniet ervan
en doordat hij ervan geniet wordt het zo volmaakt mogelijk, zonder dat het hem
zorgen baart. Hij houdt van wat hij doet, maar weet heel goed dat het niet absoluut
perfect kan zijn. Er blijft iets incompleet, dat ligt in de aard der dingen.
OSHO Het
boek van Niets
Reviews
are not gospel as many want them to be. They're merely opinions rendered at a
given point in time by one individual in the context of a specific system.
Frederic Beudot sixmoons
When
listening to, and choosing an amplifier it is only the first 1 watt of an amplifiers
output quality that really matters. If that first 1 watt sounds bad, then all
the rest that follow will sound equally as bad no matter how powerful.
Dr.Hifi
Een
geweldig klinkend muzieksysteem kan minder kostbaar zijn dan u misschien meent,
mits u bereid bent om alle aspecten die hiermee samenhangen aandacht te geven.
Daarbij is het zinvol om te bedenken dat de akoestiek van de ruimte waarin afgespeeld
gaat worden eveneens als een component in de weergaveketen dient te worden opgevat.
Toine
Dingemans SoundScapeS
Whether
it is a big system or a small system; as long as it makes you happy, it is a good
system. Happy listening.
Edward Ku
Whatever
product you listen to, regardless of cost, if your emotion is moved by your favourite
music when you put it on, then this product or system has a value to you. But
if that does not happen -even if the product is very expensive- then it has no
value to you.
Ken Ishiwata
Ob
ein gerät wirklich teur oder preiswert war, zeigt sich immer erst im lauf
der zeit.
Dieter
Burmester
In
this pointless battle to determine what is best we lose the richness of the rest
of that sentence, which is: "according to whom
or what?"
Arnis
Balgalvis
Lichtnetfilters
zijn antidepressiva voor de muziek.
Ard van
Keekem
Als
de eindversterker goed genoeg is, dan wordt de voorversterker cruciaal.
Ron Ploeger
Nicht
sofort reagieren, sondern erst mal eine nacht drüber schlafen und dann von
freunden deren unvoreingenommenen rat einholen, nichts als gegeben hinnehmen -
dinge hinterfragen. Das hat mich dorthin gebracht wo ich heute bin.
Dieter
Burmester
It
is the privilege of originals to be plagiarized by those who don't come up with
an original of their own.
J.C. Verdier
You
should own McIntosh because it works every time it is turned on.
Sidney Corderman
In
a good system individual devices complement each other – together they can
offer more than any of them separately. It's not about fixing weaknesses of other
devices, it's not about taking over. With inexpensive devises it might happen
– then individual devices could fix other devices problems. When it comes
to hi-end weakness requiring fixing are unacceptable. If there is any real weakness
it excludes particular device from high-end. Sure even on high-end level you might
want to adjust the sound according to personal preferences – that's OK, but
it is something different.
Wojtek Pacula
Muziek
is de stroomversnelling van de ziel.
Ramses
Shaffy
Messdaten
können Aussagen über das elektrische System und die handwerkliche Qualität
eines Gerätes machen. Über den tatsächlichen Klang des Gerätes
erfährt man durch reine Messungen indessen wenig. Diese Tatsache kann allein
dadurch bewiesen werden, dass es möglich ist, zwei Geräte mit identischen
Messdaten zu bauen, die völlig unterschiedlich klingen.
Dieter
Burmester
Er
zijn speakers die op specifieke parameters een 10 scoren. Speakers die op alle
punten een 9 scoren zijn vrij zeldzaam.
Ron
Ploeger
You
can make any speaker of any technology congested if you misplace it.
Bill
K.
Er
bestaan weinig slechte componenten, maar erg veel slechte systemen.
HVT.
Good
luck pirates.
J.C.Verdier.
