I was wrong: not all expensive speaker wire is simply jewelry to be put on display

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I hope no one tells the owner about how small the wiring inside the speaker cabinet is.

 

The photo is clearly from a showroom of some sort. That said, they presumably do sell those things.

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no, those are just used to clean the connections

The ear-brain connections.

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I got it in Berkeley in 1987 with every last penny I had at the time.

After buying those silver speaker wires, that is.

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I'd be more likely to trust them if their website displayed properly. The "sound tuning" page consists almost entirely of images, all which are 404 File not found.

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10 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

As an Ukrainian myself I would love to give you one example of not so crazy audio design, originated in Ukraine. Here is a quote from Lampizator's site: "One of key factors is that Lukasz Fikus, chief designer - is not electronic educated but electrical engineer. This is a huge difference. Everybody else in this industry is electronic. That means particular style, that is taught at electronic schools. Electrical is different. it is much  more primal and basic and it fits tube technology much better. You may disagree but our products speak for themselves - hi-fi from electrical perspective, not electronic. Everything that Lukasz learned other than his own experience and trial and error - was from his old masters from Ukraine who spent their whole life working with tubes and chokes."

I don't buy into these "I'm better than you lot who were ruined by education" stories. That's not to say one can't learn how to create good designs in unconventional ways, but education never hurts.

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1 hour ago, AnotherSpin said:

Was this about education?

Sure looks that way to me:

"One of key factors is that Lukasz Fikus, chief designer - is not electronic educated"

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9 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

As for the whole electronic/electrical engineer/education matter - I couldn't care less. If some gear designed in a spare time by a lavatory attendent sounded better than the one designed by an engineer - I'd  buy it without any hesitation (wouldn't you.?).

Sure, gear should be evaluated on its own merits. What I object to is the suggestion that certain gear is good because the designer lacks formal education.

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26 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

I agree with you in 100%. BTW IMO there's nothing wrong with designer's proclaiming his own, slightly different from most audio/electronic education path. In fact I like designers-individualists provided their gear is good.

Nothing wrong with designers telling their story. Just don't dismiss others in doing so.

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6 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

I agree with mansr re education, but maybe Lukasz meant that he avoided a type of narrow-vision that is turned out by some mass-market educational institutions.

And what exactly is this "narrow-vision"? Is there any evidence of such a phenomenon?