https://futureaudiophile.com/univer...phile-experience-to-its-students-and-you-too/
BTW, the article contains the email address to request an appointment to have a listen, if you are in or traveling in the area!!!
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john
Such overblown expensive obsessive decadence, just to listen to and enjoy some music.
And surely taxpayers helped to foot the bill for all that, typical of today's educational society.
Simplicity, along with reality, seems to be pushed to the backseat.
And surely taxpayers helped to foot the bill for all that, typical of today's educational society.
Simplicity, along with reality, seems to be pushed to the backseat.
I can tell that you did not read the article.
The William Ralston Listening Room has ALWAYS been 100% supported by voluntary contributions from individuals. No taxpayer dollars were spent.
Have you recently priced out a small concert hall? How about $20 million?
Have you recently priced out a Stradivari violin? $5 million is a bargain.
Hamburg Steinway 9' concert grand pianos are even more of a bargain, at more than $200,000 (depending upon currency exchange rates).
The students are not just "listening to music." They are getting educated, and in some cases, their lives are being transformed.
Permit me seriously to question why you are visiting this forum, if you have such a condescending view of people who want to bring music into their lives as deeply as possible. ???????
john
The William Ralston Listening Room has ALWAYS been 100% supported by voluntary contributions from individuals. No taxpayer dollars were spent.
Have you recently priced out a small concert hall? How about $20 million?
Have you recently priced out a Stradivari violin? $5 million is a bargain.
Hamburg Steinway 9' concert grand pianos are even more of a bargain, at more than $200,000 (depending upon currency exchange rates).
The students are not just "listening to music." They are getting educated, and in some cases, their lives are being transformed.
Permit me seriously to question why you are visiting this forum, if you have such a condescending view of people who want to bring music into their lives as deeply as possible. ???????
john
Let's get this back on track shall we?
WOT, time to take a back seat. No more posting here please.
Very cool, John! I know I’ll try to get to it if I am traveling in the area.
You mentioned speakers may be replaced. My vote would be for the Revel Ultima Salon II. Audiophile approved and diyer approved also (at least this diyer).
I wish there was an alternate system. You know, horns or line arrays driven with single-ended low power class A amplifiers.
You mentioned speakers may be replaced. My vote would be for the Revel Ultima Salon II. Audiophile approved and diyer approved also (at least this diyer).
I wish there was an alternate system. You know, horns or line arrays driven with single-ended low power class A amplifiers.
Equipment for universities is often donated. The manufacturers know who are their future customers.
Ed
Ed