RE: THX and music replay...

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 November 2002 17:35
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] THX and music replay...
> 
> 
> It does strike me that the criticism of THX "because it 
> sounds pants for music" is a bit like criticising an MPV 
> because it doesn't have great torque.
> 
> THX effectively says "this amplifier has a set of 
> characteristics - these characteristics were specially 
> developed for one specific purpose - that 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 that the design is 
> fundamentally flawed.
> 
> 
> No-one seems to find it strange if a household has a saloon 
> and a two-seater 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 
> are phenomenally expensive compared to having two, more 
> specialised cars. (Seating 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 for playing stereo music, one optimised for 
> playing surround sound - is no different.
> 
> 
> I have a movie system - it uses a THX processor, and a THX 
> power amp for the main channels. It sounds excellent for movies.
> 
> I have a music system - it uses a stereo pre-amp, no 
> surround, optimised for stereo, and a power amp optimised for 
> music. It sounds excellent for music.
> 
> 
> Now, I realise that budget, and space are constraints for all 
> of us, but even if money were no object, then I'd still want 
> a separate system using Meridian 800 series stuff for cinema, 
> and Chord stero stuff for music. Likewise, 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
<=
BR>
> =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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