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Saw this at the pinkfishmedia forum:

http://www.avhub.com.au/Features.aspx?MagazineID=4

So according to Levinson, hi-fi is basically a con game rigged by frauds except for only a few.

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"When I started there was no

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BTW back in those days, parts quality differences were much greater - some audio gear was being made with 20% carbon composition resistors, and some was being made with 1% carbon film resistors. Today, if you buy the cheapest resistors you can, they are carbon film and if you actually measure them, the ones marked 5% generally come within about 1% of each other.

I don't disagree with that but that doesn't have anything to do with the highest quality parts you or a manufacturer could and probably do buy - today. It certainly has nothing to do with the actual parts that go into the very best components. I suspect measuring and culling would be the first step many high end manufacturers take when assessing component parts. And components are just that and nothing more, components in a larger whole.

Are we headed down yet another thread of this doesn't matter and this does matter? This is all we seem capable of.

Can't we get beyond this?

Anyone who is prepared to have their minds changed on this subject, hold up your hand.

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There was McIntosh and Revox and JBL, but I never thought of it as high-end audio

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Saw this at the pinkfishmedia forum:

http://www.avhub.com.au/Features.aspx?MagazineID=4

Mark Levinson said:

"When I started there was no

Fraud concerns, eh?

I bet he'd be upset if he found some New York audio company selling rebadged Chinese speakers and electronics for 3 or 4 times what they retail for without the store's name branded on them.

That would be fraud, for sure!

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Fraud concerns, eh?

I bet he'd be upset if he found some New York audio company selling rebadged Chinese speakers and electronics for 3 or 4 times what they retail for without the store's name branded on them.

That would be fraud, for sure!

Some might call it fraud others would call it, "The Levinson Magic Touch." Nearly every time I see a picture of him he's wearing all black clothing but he's clearly comfortable in "grey" as well if everyone catches my meaning.

So, this guy is a musician, audio engineer and sex author.
Strikes me as a Jack-of-all-trades...Master-of-none.

I hear he just buys Yamaha gear and has boxes made in Korea to fit the guts. Cuts down on the engineering costs.

Like me, his first unit was from a kit at Radio Shack made inside a cigar box (not included).

Today I use Sony equipment with boxes made in Taiwan to fit the guts. Sanford & Son Audio.

I'm thinking on starting a cigar box budget line. My slogan can be, "As good as Sony but in a cigar box". I can get any size cigar box I want from Cuba. Thank you, Obama.

That was a frustratingly lightweight, incomplete and superfluous (enough adjectives yet?) article that epitomizes the short attention span of the sound bite/word byte generation. It said virtually nothing in depth on any of the topics it brushed up against and didn't mention his divorce, which seems relevant if they are going to name drop Kim Catrall.

So I can't get too worked up about his audio comments, because who knows the context or what they left out to fit their column space.