A better kind of porn
Today I went to the "Home Entertainment Show 2007", an audio industry expo held in New York. Basically it was a one-stop-shop for high-end audio equipment manufacturers to show off their wares to those who (a) might buy some of it (elsewhere), or (b) would talk (a) into doing so.
One could wander from listening room to listening room... Tchaikovsky on $23k speakers... Verdi on $60k speakers attached to a $8k turntable, and then walk over to Melissa Etheridge on $20k speakers (the latter, say, being used merely to showcase a $27k amp).
My personal highlight, being entirely personal and, like so many
dinosaurs-being-thin-at-one-end,- then-wide-at-the-middle,-
and-finally-thin-at-the-other-end-type theories, not reproducible, was that of listening to a Super-Audio CD of Dire Straits "So Far Away" on a pair of these:
