THX and music replay...

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

It does strike me that the criticism of THX "because it sounds pants
f=
or music" is a bit like criticising an MPV because it doesn't have
gre=
at torque.

THX effectively says "this amplifier has a set of characteristics -
th=
ese characteristics were specially developed for one specific purpose -
tha=
t of watching multi-channel movies."

If you take a device specifically designed to do one thing, and do it
well,=
it's a bit unfair to use it for something completely different and claim t=
hat the design is fundamentally flawed.


No-one seems to find it strange if a household has a saloon and a
two-seate=
r sports car in the garage. No-one has a problem understanding that you
use=
the saloon for the school run, and the two-seater for a blast at weekends.=
.. the reason people do this is that saloons with sports car performance
ar=
e phenomenally expensive compared to having two, more specialised cars.
(Se=
ating capacity of a Rover 75 plus performence of a Lotus Elise =3D Bentley
=
Arnage.)

Why can't people accept that having two different systems - one optimised
f=
or playing stereo music, one optimised for playing surround sound - is no
d=
ifferent.


I have a movie system - it uses a THX processor, and a THX power amp for
th=
e main channels. It sounds excellent for movies.

I have a music system - it uses a stereo pre-amp, no surround, optimised
fo=
r stereo, and a power amp optimised for music. It sounds excellent for
musi=
c.


Now, I realise that budget, and space are constraints for all of us, but
ev=
en if money were no object, then I'd still want a separate system using
Mer=
idian 800 series stuff for cinema, and Chord stero stuff for music.
Likewis=
e, if money were no object, I'd have Linn Sondek CD12 for playing CDs -
ANY=
DVD player in the world sounds "pants" compared to that... but =
=A312,000 for a CD player is kind of obsessive, considering that you could
=
get a might cinema system for that :-)



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