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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Julian Hirsch's test of the Levinson ML-3
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 22:55:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 22:55:53 1984
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Phil has posted almost the same article twice.  Either there's a site
that's editing news messages before duplicating them, or Phil really hopes
for some comment.

>Notice that in JH's test of the ML-3, he had to bypass the switchbox
>that he usually goes through because of the large wires and connectors.
>This is one of the major reasons for the improvement in the quality of
>the sound, not to mention the obvious...
Oh, lordy!  Then why should I buy ML-3's for the price of months of house
payments when all I need is some huge hunks of copper running around my
living room (plus a little work to shore up that end of the house so it
doesn't start to liszt from the added weight:-) ?

>If people would bypass the A/B speaker switch in their equipment and use
>better wires than 18 gauge zip, they'd hear things they never heard before!
Is a switch one of those nasties that purists can't stand, or are Julian
Hirsch & Co. so inept that they can't build a reasonable box to switch
audio frequencies.  Now, I don't maintain that a good switch for oomphty
watts at audio frequencies should cost under $1, but it just ain't that
hard to do.  And sure, 18-gauge zip cord is marginal but is the assertion
that JH normally uses nothing heavier?  (Personally, I'd expect something
closer to 14-ga to be reasonable, but no sense being a fanatic about it
without good cause - which I HAVEN'T yet found.)
-- 
...Stop to smell the flowers.				Dick Dunn
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