[Dmason]

This is why I think the next unit out the door to the scribes should be a "control" specimen. --Fully burned in, phat caps, and NO volume control, forcing them to use whatever bejewelled pre amp awaiting the Dali Lama's blessings, they happen to have on hand. I know for a fact that Srajan plans to have at least two types of high sensitivity speakers known for musical truth, beauty, and dynasmic performance. THEN, will the great unwashed see what this is all about.

After all, he is the first guru to have noticed the ground swell of simplification going on out there. I have a friend using a 1 watt SET mounted on plywood, playing into 18 inch pro audio coaxials, and this set up would force most of Thee High End Label Whores into a navel-gazing reassessment.   The ClariT represents the Winds of Change.

[-Richard-]

Nice prose Dan...bristling with textures
and ideas that spill out into a vortex of
conflagrations...greater than the sum of
its parts like a good mathematical equation...

I would like add a word or two here:

We are all being treated to an inside
ring of the "quality" and "precision" of both
of these reviewers level or work...

And it is our own developing level of audio
acuity that is creating the ground for our own
highly advanced critical understanding of just
what it is we are hearing when we listen to products
that we elect to audition...that in itself is a kind
of revolution...

Remember...all of us started out reading magazines
at one time or another as part of our initiation into the
audio "culture"...and many of us made decisions based
not only on what we read by the audio gurus but were
swayed into making purchases based on the bullying
of sales persons at audio shops we visited...

I am not saying that there are not decent and well-meaning
reviewers or sales people out there...I would yield that assessment
to much more experienced persons than myself...although
my experiences at audio shops has never been entirely
pleasant...

But we have managed to find ourselves in the enviable position to
be able to think for ourselves and rely on our own judgement...
that is revolutionary...and I do not think this could have been
so easily achieved without this forum to share our ideas so quickly
or easily or fully with each other...we have created an audio culture
that is immensely informed and capable of operating collectively
and personally on a higher level of experience than both of
these 2 reviewers could manage...

So if there are any reviewers out there reading these threads
let me state unequivocally that we who are members of these
threads are watching you very carefully...if you do shoddy work,
or go about your reviews without a sensitive and careful understanding
of what it is you are working with we will recognize it immediately...
and let you know about it...especially when it comes to products that fit
our own agenda...like the ClariT...products that do not give off the
expensive and offensive smell of corporate branding and blitzkrieg
advertising campaigns...

We are looking for alternatives to the overlypriced and overlydesigned
pseudopedigreed audio crap that struts about on the slick magazine pages...
and we will not be put off...

Warm regards -Richard-

[Wind Chaser]

Great post, Richard!

[miklorsmith]

Power to the people!  Hear, hear.  And another, HEAR.  Too bad the cool club only has like 50 members.

[Dmason]

Miklor,

The French Revolution started with 5 people. An insurgency can become a society... Vive le Revolution! I nominate Richard as our first "constitutional monarch of the audio revolution." ...Richard I.

Reali-T Update

I was chuckling last night thinking about the second review, and the somewhat dismissive nature of it, and my completely dismissive reaction to the reviewer's chops, and lack of understanding as to what a review entails, all as the ClariT's cousin was playing away, in the dark, through my own DarkStar UAV (tm),    projecting this ultra-lucid, warm-yet-analytical, holistic presentation, where I could hear absolutely everything going on in some extremely exotic, wildly scored stuff from Maurice Ravel. I could [sort of] understand it, for the first time. I could ascertain each warp and weft in this extraordinary tapestry. I could actually IDENTIFY what was going on for the first time, and this is a piece I have known for years. My conclusion: Ravel was OUT THERE. Like Pluto! And I had to have a sonic planetarium to notice this. The Reali-T and DarkStar combination is becoming something you just don't tap into.

[miklorsmith]

I'm not really down with guns.  I know some people are really hip on them, but not me.  So, I guess in a nonchalant, "sittin' on the couch" kind of way I could do a revolution.  Buying a house, keeping my kids from killing themselves, running a business, sure, I've got time.

Do we get to have secret code words and stuff?  How about special names that are different from our real names?  Like instead of Miklorsmith, I could be Smithmiklor!  Nobody will catch onto that!  You could be MasonD, but Richard will be tougher because his name only has one part.  We can work on this.  Oh the possibilities. . .

It will catch on.  I'm sure of that.  The performance is undeniable, but as they say, a little knowledge is dangerous, you don't know what you're missing, and you'll have to pry my 500 wpc amp out of my cold, dead hands.  The SUV/Big Power/Thunderbass viewpoint rules the roost I'm afraid, and our revolution will likely be quiet.  That's OK, as long as I'm on the inside of the zoo looking out at all the gawkers.  SmithMiklor Out!

[ohenry]

Do we get to have secret code words and stuff? How about special names that are different from our real names? Like instead of Miklorsmith, I could be Smithmiklor! Nobody will catch onto that! You could be MasonD, but Richard will be tougher because his name only has one part. We can work on this. Oh the possibilities. . .

Okay my brothers, secret names works for me.  I have two name generator links for you guys to mask your identities:

http://gorillamask.net/ronmexico/

http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp

The first site christened me "Ian Virgin Islands" and the second "Snake Eyes Henry Dogg".

I think I like the second better, but it contains Henry.  Maybe I could be "Snake Eyes Ian Dogg"?

[Dave G]

Great stuff, Snake Eyes!  I think I can live with my secret name:  Hercules Iraq.  My friends can just call me Hercules.

I'll have to wait until this evening to find out whether my wife likes her new name:  Bunny Honduras.

[eric the red]

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-"Magic Tickle, Eric The Shizzle" Red