FM ACOUSTICS Manny Huber , still considered by many to make the finest audio amplifiers ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaG5d98zVC0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaG5d98zVC0
Gary has been busy, and is getting better ...
But more impressive to me is here, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0YVqYO5kaUzpdrk18o_Tw
Check out the Cantonese Pop, Fleetwood Mac Rumours and Al Grey and the Basie Wings videos, these give a good flavour of what decent playback of recorded sound should convey ...
I've watched and listened, but quite honestly, I don't quite see anything new here, all of this has been possible for a long time.
From this brief presentation, I don't understand what is new about selectable input impedances and capacitances? I've seen that on many a unit before.
I also fail to understand how is their 5 way equalizer so superior to, for example, the parametric EQ SAE offered us in 1975?
I have no doubt they made it all really well, they have a good rep for doing things the way they should be done, as well as for reliability, but so do other companies as well, like Spectral, Levinson, Krell and so forth.
No doubt John.
I understand telegraphy as unfortunately like Geoffrey Horn I was forced to do it ( Quad Tuners were partly his baby, AM 3 made at Horns Oxford workshop were his dad built radios) .
I accept your point. It is like when people force history on to me I always say " so you were there" ?
My feeling is the fascination ran riot with them . That makes sense as it is a race to patent the uses. I think you are more than right in what you say and that was my point. It could not be for telegraphy that they used 50 db of feedback . It was to push the boundaries of science.
I can understand the point about a perpetual motion machine. It looks that way at first glance. I guess noise or electrons jumping prevents that. Some even now talk of echo's of the loop . That can only be said to be untrue by assuming certain things about hearing. High speed in an amp does seem wise if only for that.
You know talking of history is the same as assuming things about hearing. It is at best an informed guess and that's all.
I was at a seance. A friend reminded me of how evil spirits arrived in the room. Sorry to say they didn't . He was convinced as was his cousin. Two people sincerely believing in something that happened in the same space at the same time and the third person not . I truly believe they did see something. I didn't see it and that's all I know. A lack of sensibility I guess? Note I don't do down what I do not know. And that was not even secondhand reporting. I was there and saw it differently.
I finished a project last night that has caused many problems. By simplifying it works better. To be honest without this it was a slightly dangerous set of problems it had. This meant abandoning the text book route. I wrote to Colleen. It's so dam nice it is like a life form, I said. After a compliment I replied" I claim no great part in what I did. It simply evolved." It was survival of the fittest component and that's all.
I was at a seance. A friend reminded me of how evil spirits arrived in the room. Sorry to say they didn't . He was convinced as was his cousin. Two people sincerely believing in something that happened in the same space at the same time and the third person not . I truly believe they did see something. I didn't see it and that's all I know. A lack of sensibility I guess? Note I don't do down what I do not know. And that was not even secondhand reporting. I was there and saw it differently.
I finished a project last night that has caused many problems. By simplifying it works better. To be honest without this it was a slightly dangerous set of problems it had. This meant abandoning the text book route. I wrote to Colleen. It's so dam nice it is like a life form, I said. After a compliment I replied" I claim no great part in what I did. It simply evolved." It was survival of the fittest component and that's all.
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New, its audio, evolution not revolution , so You must be kidding around .. right ?,
I think dvv missed something there.
Manny's used amplifiers sell for more than his new @100K each, not a formula you want to play with ...
How was your trip Scott ..?
Trip was great, even the questions about the sound of various SMT capacitors.
Had donkey for the first time.
Donkey, Is that what they told you
"According to a Chinese saying, “In heaven there is dragon meat, and on earth there is donkey meat.” But it has to be pure donkey meat, straight up. Messing with heaven on earth, Walmart’s China operation has apparently sold and now recalled fox meat-tainted “five spice” donkey meat and created quite a headache for the global retailer."
I did buy a nice fox tail paint brush but maybe...
On basis of that admittedly too short and vague presentation, yes, I did have the impression that we were in fact being shown a graphic equalizer, possibly with a larger than usual Q factor.
However, I'd like to add two notes, for absolute precision:
1. Hearing is believeing. If I heard it at that demo, I would surely have heard it better and might have loved it as is. As things stand now, thais was not the case, too many layers in between, and
2. I understand the time was limited and did not allow either for vaxing lyrical about it, or providing more data on its features. The man had a whole system to present, although I had the impression that he would have preferred talking about the phono stage more.
Scott, I really believe my own ears only. Hearing is believing, you might say. This is after years of being let down by the sound of expensive devices with a really wild schematic, and hearing unbelivebly good sound from devices with at best a mediocre looking schematic.
The first amp which blew me away with its sound quality in its day was the Otala/Lohstroh amp. The second was the German made, model Mega 1 (its frequency response went out to 1 MHz) from a now gone company called LAS (Linear Audio Systems), in 1979, which had a deceptively simple schematic, in many ways an opposite to the Otala/Lohstroh amp. But it had a wonderful sound, and I'd love to have it as my own. With some Kirksaetter receivers (also a German company, they make only speaker today), the best sounding gear from Germany I ever heard, and some of the best I ever heard period.
The point is, looks, prices, name tags and short presentations can be very deceptive, but my ears will not be fooled by it all. In all honesty, I have never encountered live any FM Acoustics product, although I have been aware of them for many years.
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