Dear Thom: With this I'm finish:
+++++ " Your "it has to be perfect" mantra is really tiring me out " +++++, that's what I posted: we are different in this subject but I can asure you that we have more in common than differences about sound/music reproduction.
+++++ " I'm sorry, Raul but as good as the Essential is, it is as colored as many of the other fine RIAA/line stages I rank in the top tier (and the Essential is a fine piece). " +++++
Absolutely, I never speak that it is not only that we try to leave those distortions/bad colorations at minimum, that's all.
+++++ " Please get over it and realize that no one can be all things to all people " +++++
Absolutely, I don't think in other way: I agree.
+++++ " Regarding Audio Puritans, " +++++
No. I'm not: I'm only trying to be better.
+++++ " a very lean and modern sound. " +++++
No, it is not ( I don't know what means " modern sound " ): the sound perception depends on the whole system and my point of view about is that our design is very high revealing of what happen in all the audio chain because that design does not hide almost anything out there, of course that the Essential is part of that audio chain and puts its " grain of salt " about.
The diffrences is how you, other people and I perceive the sound reproduction in an audio system and how be related against the live event or at least near to the recording.
Our attitude/philosophy in the electronic audio design is: truer to the recording and you can't blaim me for that, it is only a way to think that is a little different from yours and other people but there are other people that think in the same way that us: our design goes for that people and we will wait that the other people could change ( a little ) in the future, no our design is not for all in the same manner that horns speakers are not for every one.
Thom, thanks to our differences we have some fun and we can learn a lot about those differences, don't you think?
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
+++++ " Your "it has to be perfect" mantra is really tiring me out " +++++, that's what I posted: we are different in this subject but I can asure you that we have more in common than differences about sound/music reproduction.
+++++ " I'm sorry, Raul but as good as the Essential is, it is as colored as many of the other fine RIAA/line stages I rank in the top tier (and the Essential is a fine piece). " +++++
Absolutely, I never speak that it is not only that we try to leave those distortions/bad colorations at minimum, that's all.
+++++ " Please get over it and realize that no one can be all things to all people " +++++
Absolutely, I don't think in other way: I agree.
+++++ " Regarding Audio Puritans, " +++++
No. I'm not: I'm only trying to be better.
+++++ " a very lean and modern sound. " +++++
No, it is not ( I don't know what means " modern sound " ): the sound perception depends on the whole system and my point of view about is that our design is very high revealing of what happen in all the audio chain because that design does not hide almost anything out there, of course that the Essential is part of that audio chain and puts its " grain of salt " about.
The diffrences is how you, other people and I perceive the sound reproduction in an audio system and how be related against the live event or at least near to the recording.
Our attitude/philosophy in the electronic audio design is: truer to the recording and you can't blaim me for that, it is only a way to think that is a little different from yours and other people but there are other people that think in the same way that us: our design goes for that people and we will wait that the other people could change ( a little ) in the future, no our design is not for all in the same manner that horns speakers are not for every one.
Thom, thanks to our differences we have some fun and we can learn a lot about those differences, don't you think?
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.