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House Sound

Any line of gear designed by someone who is an artist as well as an engineer will have a house sound. Which is the sound he hears when he listens to music. He will not hear it as a house sound but the sound of music. If he is a genius or near genius, his house sound will be wonderful. It is we who hear the house sound just as we hear the voice of Henry James or Dr. Seuss.

There is nothing duller or less engaging than gear without a distinctive voice. Transparency is an illusion and also a false standard conceived of by designers, reviewers, and listeners who mistake information for music. Striving for neutrality rather than for the sound of music is a guarantee of sterility.

You know all of this, I just felt like saying it again. All of the gear in my house sounds wonderful to me (if it doesn't, it's gone) and each of the systems I put together has a different house sound. It always takes me a few days to 'change sounds,' but once I do, I'm back where we all want to be. Most of us anyway.

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