Yes, you will undoubtedly go insane unless you practice the Salk Signature Sound 12 step program that has helped so many before you.
Please, I hope that I do not offend anyone. In truth, 12 step programs have saved many lives.
Step 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our inferior audio - that our listening experience had become unsatisfying and fatiguing;
Step 2 - We came to believe that a team composed of a speaker designer and builder, a TL design consultant, a cabinet/crossover designer, and one of the greatest crossover designers of our time could restore us to high fidelity;
Step 3 - We made a decision to turn our audio needs over to the care of Jim and Dennis;
Step 4 - We made an inventory of our needs to have the best components, listen to the best music, or some combination therein;
Step 5 - We admitted to Jim, to Dennis, to ourselves and to our fellow forum members, but never to our wives, the exact nature of our insecurities;
Step 6 - We are entirely ready to have Jim, with the help of Frank Van Alstine, in extreme cases, remove all poorly sounding midrange and solid state artifacts;
Step 7 - We humbly asked GIK or ReadyTraps to give us free advice to remove slap echo, reverberations, cancellations, and suckout and then we went and bought stuff for a few bucks cheaper somewhere else;
Step 8 - We made a list of all persons we had harmed, including bpape, Eathan, et al, (see above) and became willing to make amends to them by finally buying their stuff, and without even asking for a discount;
Step 9 - We made direct amends to people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others, by telling those people that we secretly scoffed because of their stupid audio choices and that we wanted to feel that they were dumber than us;
Step 10 - We continued to admitted our wrongs, but only to ourselves and each other, such as the wrong we committed when we tried to tell someone that we could really hear a difference when that little bowl from the far east was placed in the room, snickering to ourselves;
Step 11 - We sought through careful listening and comparison to improve our conscious connection with the music as a form of personal growth and self-actualization; and
Step 12 - Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message, that the sound is "better than being there," to other prospective purchasers, and to prevent, whenever possible, friends from purchasing audio equipment from Big Box stores, unscrupulous dealers, wonder wire salesman, snake oil salesman, and anyone that cryoprotects, cryopreserves, cryoenhances, or otherwise cryos anything.
Please feel free to modify these in any way.
