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I guess you are near the highest level of good sound possible. It's a very high level.

I tend to communicate my message to people who may not know what is really going on here.

What is really going on is that the sound achievement can be of the highest artistic level. The sound possible through sets ranks right there with the experiences possible with the best in art in other areas. Go to the Museum of Modern Art or the Met, go to the finest jazz clubs and hear the finest musicians, or just have extraordinary experiences with people. The sound that is coming through is right there with all of this.

This is what is going on the home stereo that I know. A sound that is satisfying artistically: that reaches the emotions, that piques the imagination, that fires up life. That wakes up music in the home.

I remember hearing the best in show sound at the stereophile show a few years ago. It was startling, interesting, alot of fun, etc. etc.. But it was not at the emotional level possible. Maybe the most important factor was missing.

Let's clear out the electronics and go as simple as possible, because we know it is there. Let's go ac on all the filaments and let's go with set tubes. Let's get with the opt's that have that grab, that can go right to the inner core of us where art touches.

We have to branch away from the fine high-end sound and pave the set sound. Raw, primitive, primal, live sounding, gutsy, immediate. Let's get away from the intellectual and cognitive. Let's go with the real, emotive and experiental.

What interests me is the deepest possible experiences possible. I want to look at Rembrants.

Sound is an incredible thing. High-end sound is delightful, but what is possible is way beyond delightful.

The 45 and the 300b are two of the great set tubes. And the others too. We hear things, we hear potential and possiblities and we want to explore that route.

I think you are asking what is out there. What is beyond what you have if there is anything.

I really don't know what these other manufacturers besides what you have are striving for, what they have discovered if anything, what they have to offer in the unique set arena, what ground they have covered and what ground they want to cover. Fi and Bottlehead are apparently good stuff, Korneff was pioneering in the past especially because of the promotion of the 45, don't know about now. I believe DIY is hitting territory that is pioneering.

Let's see how the next couple of years go and what is going to happen. I think more definitive understandings will pop up.



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