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Old 28th Feb 2021, 10:09 am   #2108
Ted Kendall
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Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

Similar thing happened to Peter Belt - first known for making quite decent headphones, both dynamic and electrostatic, he then went off the reservation with his foils and brushes, totally taking in Peter Turner, who used to write sense about tape recording in the sixties and wrote rubbish about hi fi in the eighties. Another bloke espousing along these lines was Dennis Moorcroft - he made stuff in Perspex cases with ultra-thin wiring all over the shop - I think star-earthing was another kink. Dunno how they get away with it. In "Hi fi for Pleasure", published in the mid-50s, Burnett James assured his readers that "any manufacturer now persisting in building his wares on the wax-and-chewed-string principle is merely ensuring his progress to the bankruptcy court by the shortest distance between two points". Seems something went into reverse somewhere...

The NVA header picture looks like an Emmett drawing. How appropriate.

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