Missing the forest for the trees

Western Electric system used in theaters in early 1900’s are too big to use in ordinary house but very efficient 110db/w and be driven by 20 Wattts amplifiers to get enough sound for the whole theater.

One of my billionaire friend have several Western Electric system.

Every time I hear his system, I got amazed to death.

But I can not afford it.

I am just happy with my current system based upon Lansche 4.1 while doing small improvement from time to time.

A great sounding system playing a great recording actually will reproduce the sound of a concert hall with amazing detail...ambient crowd sounds, reverberant hall sound...it's all there...compare a studio orchestral recording to a live concert hall version...you can easily hear the difference.

Weeding out the junk in my LP collection. Cutting back from the 4,500 I had to 3000 LPs. Positive experience so far. finished the Jazz, Listened to all the stuff I did not remember, got rid of all the junk and impossible to listen to (think later Archie Shepp tootling atonally for the whole LP...), kept the stuff. I like...  am almost finished doing the same with the Rock. Classical is a bit harder.. (Like I listened to all EIGHT performances of Scheherazade I owned.. Kept 4 dumped 4. One item down, 1000 to go.                      
So basically changing from collecting for collecting sake. To playing listening to what I like. Gettin' OLD and have no need for an endless mountain of possible stuff to listen to. (3,000 should be plenty)

Likewise, Liz---Eric.

Thoughtful Essay: 'Objectivity and the Abstract Truth' by Allan Moulton // The Absolute Sound


Here is a snippet...

"The scientific method is a purposeful and sometimes necessary disentanglement of equipment and sounds from listening’s full context. But at the end of the day, a double-blind test or full set of measurements reveals a lesser form of the truth, not a greater one. The truth or essence of the equipment we listen to is not contained in them or in the capabilities they have or in the opinions we hold. Like it or not, the full truth is that we’re entangled in complex and wonderful ways with our world."

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/objectivity-and-the-abstract-truth/