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Posted by Chris from Lafayette ( A ) on July 26, 2005 at 00:39:25

In Reply to: Water Lily Russian Recordings and turning the other cheek.... posted by music@waterlilyacoustics.com on July 25, 2005 at 10:18:50:

So I get home a little late from work (busy day!). . . and here’s yet another post from Kavi waiting for me. I guess I have to slog through these things. (Excerpts from his post are in quotation marks.)

“... and I live off the fat of the land? No, I lived by ripping off the music loving public by offering them abyssmal recordings wherein the orchestral balance is off, there is no bass, the mids pinched and the highs missing. But now you have showen me the light! I shall make spaced omni recordings!”

For some of us, our emotional highs spring from a fine performance of a beautiful masterwork, whereas for Kavi, intense emotions arise from imagined slights and insults from listeners who dare criticize this or that aspect of his recordings. Steam gushes from his ears as he conflates what different people said into one miserable criticism of his work. And since his recordings are the ONLY ones which sound like real music, there must be something wrong with these demented souls who denigrate his sonic masterpieces.

But wait! These same demented souls who dare to criticize Kavi’s recordings actually like SOME single-point stereo recordings – but they also like other relatively purist recordings such as spaced omnis made with as many as (gasp!) SIX microphones! But for Kavi, this is blasphemy – spaced omni recordings have no relationship with the sound of real music. How can this be? –especially when Kavi admits he likes (prefers) post-Blumlein EMI recordings. It’s a paradox – Perhaps it’s one of the mysteries of faith! Yes, my children, when Kavi receives something as vicious as a little criticism, he has to “turn the other cheek”.

“You strike me as the sort that has nothing good to say about anything. You do not like my recording, you dislike my art work and now you have to make a snide remark about TAS as well. Let me tell you, TAS has done far, far more for the music lover than you and Teresa will EVER do.
What really is your contribution to the music lover? In which way do you enlighten or uplift the music lover?”

Unable to convince others by the logic of his arguments, Kavi now resorts to ad hominem attacks, even though a little effort on his part (maybe a web search?) would have revealed plenty of positive comments about various recordings – like, maybe, the Exton DVD-Audios with the Czech Philharmonic.

Now he demands to know my contribution to the music lover. I think he should put a little effort into it and do a web search. He’ll find enough things, even though I work for a living.

Oh yes, TAS! Perhaps Kavi should gather the other members of the TAS faith and listen to his new recordings – the only ones which sound like real music. By the way, wasn’t TAS on a crusade for a long time to warn listeners of the horrors of digital music. Why then is Kavi releasing his new recordings on CD? I guess it’s just another mystery of faith. And another mystery of faith: HP’s list of records to die for (or whatever it’s called) includes (or included, I haven’t looked at it recently) Mercury Living Presence and RCA Living Stereo recordings. What’s going on here in the temple of the true believers?

-Chris Salocks
(Take my opinions with a grain of salt – everything else being equal, I prefer DVD-Audio!)

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