Kantor Kwotes

[laatsch55]

Due to this mans sense of humor and his refusal to bow to the ridiculous, we , here at Phoenix will now devote a thread to some of his better quotes..

Feel free to add your favorites..

An AK er who is heavily involved in audio professionally.....as an engineer I would hazard from this remark...



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[TD="class: alt2"]Originally Posted by HypnoToad

Is this going to turn into a "NE5532 is as good as any" thread?

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Not from me... I've never been fond of 5532's.

(But not because they sound harsh or glassy or constricted or distant or etched or dull or sparkly or dazed or confused or depressed or sleepy or hungry or over-excited or tuneful or sloppy or static or slow or medium or fast or non-causal or stressed-out or strung-out or lazy or horny or tube-like or sand-like or socialist or juvenile or sophisticated or naïve or other-worldly or vintage. Since that is all the job of the designer....)

-k
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Playing dice with the Universe.

 

[Web Police]

Good one.

 

[dingus]

as of today, my favorite Kantor quote;

By and large, high-end audio gear is just another fetish. Sure, you can use the gear, just as you can wear fetishistic underwear. The thing is, to a fetishist, the object itself is just as exciting as the person wearing it.

 

[Web Police]

I tweaked the thread a little for you.

 

[laatsch55]

Bless your heart...

 

[orange]

as of today, my favorite Kantor quote

By and large, high-end audio gear is just another fetish. Sure, you can use the gear, just as you can wear fetishistic underwear. The thing is, to a fetishist, the object itself is just as exciting as the person wearing it.

It would be the LACK of fetishist garments that would excite most of us here the most. In a similar vein, if I can work my gear I'm happy as well.

 

[laatsch55]

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[TD="class: alt2"]Originally Posted by laatsch55

I've had some oscillate in place of the RC4739's.......in fact everything I've tried in place of that oscillates, something to do with phase lag I think...
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Phase Shmase....

The RC4739 is a 3 MHz device with a 1 V/us slew rate. It's a no-brainer that swapping in an 8MHz, 10 V/us part is probably going to oscillate!

 

[laatsch55]

Q: Why is Neil Young pushing a new digital format?

A: Because he's seen the needle and the damage done.

-k

PS- talking about MP3 "fidelity" without talking bit rate is meaningless. High rate MP3 can be absolutely fantastic.
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[dingus]

in response to the question; "Would it help to build the perfect room first?"

...there is no such thing as a perfect room. Idealized accuracy is a useful myth in audio. It allows people think in terms of, “Here’s what’s bad, so here’s what we’re going to do to fix it,†without ever nailing down what accuracy would sound like, let alone how to measure it. We throw around words like “realism†and “accuracy†without any common definition. Recordings are used to pick the speakers that are used to judge which recordings should be used to evaluate speakers. It’s totally circular. Measurements only help if you can define the exact location and integration time to use, which gets you immediately back to the question of what correlates to the best sound! I know this is like saying something really terrible in the religious world of audio, either on the subjectivist side or the objectivist side. In both cases, the concept of idealized fidelity is incredibly pervasive. It has been for many years. We imagine that we know what we want to do but that we just can’t get there yet. My argument is no, we don’t even know what we want.

Instead, people talk so too much about amplifiers and cables and things like that, as if that last decimal point is going to lift the veil on reality. That’s bizarre fantasy to me. We have these things like microphones and speakers and we have no clue what they’re really doing. We really don’t know much about how they work. The best speaker ever built is worse than the most… the cheapest piece of wire you can buy at the hardware store. Yet we treat them equally like they are going to have the same impact on our systems. It’s just bizarre to me, I don’t get it.

 

[laatsch55]

Guy makes a lot of sense don't he Scott?

 

[dingus]

i've always thought so.

 

[dingus]

'nuther good'un

Right now with a billion dollars you could not build a speaker system that could play three commercial
recordings in a row and make them sound truly realistic without having to be readjusted, and everybody knows it. Any
attempt to do so will result in enormous amounts of hemming and hawing.

 

[laatsch55]

Thanks for keeping us posted Scott...

 

[dingus]

i got a few more good ones...

 

[laatsch55]

Don't be stingy...

 

[dingus]

i was gonna keep it to no more than 1 a day, but you asked...

The people who have the money and resources to address
these problems need to get the support of the people who understand that we need something better. That's what’s
missing right now. People who appreciate and could motivate the quest for great sound are navel gazing in this little
world of the high end where affordable audio is more than the average American family has to live on for a year.

 

[laatsch55]

There is an exception Scott, and that's Joseph King. he's doing anything but navel gazing. He has brought high end down to the affordable level.

 

[Web Police]

It is starting to sound like Yogi Berra quotes to me.

 

[dingus]

There is an exception Scott, and that's Joseph King. he's doing anything but navel gazing. He has brought high end down to the affordable level.

the quotes i provided here from Ken were originally published in the Afforable$$Audio e-zine about 5 years ago, so they may have additional accuracy when viewed from the context of that era.

never heard of Joseph King, link?

 

[dingus]

It is starting to sound like Yogi Berra quotes to me.

i couldnt find A$$A the last time i went looking for it, so i'm assuming they are defunct. as such the following issues contain the full interview with Ken.