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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Ribbon Forever
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.213536.25882@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec24.101319.1010@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:35:36 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- : In article <1992Dec22.214222.2043@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>,
- : dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : > jeh@cmkrnl.com wrote:
- : >
- : > > Maggie owners tend to LOVE their speakers.
- : > > I used to love mine.
- : > > However I've since switched back to cones (Vandersteen 2ci, later augmented
- : > > by the 2w subwoofer).
- : > > I really like the soundstaging and "transparency" that Magnepans deliver.
- : > > However... as Corey Greenberg put it recently in _Stereophile_: Panel
- : > > speakers don't rock, and never will.
- : > > Translated, this means that they compress dynamic range.
- : >
- : > Is he the one who can't write a coherent sentence in English?
- :
- : He writes many complete and coherent sentences. Some of them rely a lot on
- : current popular usage and so may be difficult to follow, or even annoying, if
- : your only experience with English is from reading a junior-high grammar text.
- : Or if you're William Safire.
-
- I don't recall too many coherent sentences in the stuff of his that I
- read. And my experience with English is derived from a 'proper'
- education. And no, never in a million years would I have considered
- writing speeches for Richard Nixon. Actually, that's not true, I would
- have provided him with the following "I resign, I'm guilty, please
- lock me up."
-
- : The real trouble with panel speakers is that there are so many things that they
- : do "appealingly" -- not necessarily "right" -- that they lead you to not pay
- : attention to what they're doing wrong.
-
- Sound good, bhut would you like to expand on it?
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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