A Special View on British Audio

Posted by: graphoman on 01 April 2004

(Should the case occur somebody is interested in learning it)

I’m on friendly term with a dealer who is the chief representative of some British Hi-Fi manufacturers in Hungary. He keep complaining on them saying would have he known them better he should not have started with that business.

“You should get it right, they are very talented, they even manage to invent a real Perpetuum Mobile but if the thing happens to consisting of two parts then this Perpetuum and Mobile will be coupled by nothing but a safety-pin.” He is not really familiar with my Naim Audio, he added, so generalization may be sweeping.

I wanted to contradict but presently being in an endless process of upgrading my sbls I did not likely want to take the risk...

graphoman
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by woody
meaning what - badly made?

-- woody
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by graphoman
I like sbl. But I think it’s some sort of Perpetuum Mobile.

graphoman
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by Bob McC
I've copied this post to Bletchley Park.

Bob
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by prowla
WTF???

Paul
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by woody
quote:
Originally posted by prowla:
WTF???

Paul


absolutely not Fing idea !

-- woody
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by woody
quote:
Originally posted by woody:
quote:
Originally posted by prowla:
WTF???

Paul


absolutely not Fing idea !

-- woody


that was secret squirrel code for no effing idea

-- woody
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by Juliandowd
Is anybody there who can explain what all this means?????????

JD
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by JonR
quote:
Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
I've copied this post to Bletchley Park.

Bob


..and just to clarify the above post: Bletchley Park was the UK's renowned secret wartime decoding station famous for decyphering the German ENIGMA code used by the Nazis for radio transmissions to their armed forces.

Hope that clarifies something for someone.... Confused

Regards,

JonR
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by Stevea
I think what he means might be along the lines of the following.

Years ago I owned several British cars and many of them went well and were great to drive. However on each one, I would pull off the lining and install my own audio system. It was only when I intalled an audio system in my first Japanese car that I realised that underneath the lining didn't actually have to be a dogs breakfast.

No doubt there are many exceptions but I have owned Japanese cars ever since. Not as much character but they would just go on doing axactly what I expected them to do day after day, year after year.

I don't have enough experience with British audio to say whether the above generally transfers but suspect it was something like this he was getting at.

Steve

[This message was edited by Stevea on Fri 02 April 2004 at 0:24.]
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by syd
What's a Perpetuum Mobile? Does this mean a Perpetual Motion machine. Which doesn't exist. Therefore British HI FI doesn't exist.

Confused of Lanarkshire.

Yours in Music

Syd
Posted on: 01 April 2004 by graphoman
thank you for making clear what I wanted to say, hereby I declare you are my official interpreter. Sooner or later I’ll, too, be able to understand all the remarks to this topic.

If we are talking about national stereotypes it’s worth mentioning an old Hungarian joke as well:

Question: What is it: it scrapes the sky and kick you in the pant?
Answer: It’s a sky-scraping-and-in-the pant-kicking machine.
Question: What is it: it scrapes the sky and DOES NOT kick you in the pant?
Answer: The same but Hungarian made.

(If it’s not clear to anybody please let it to Tom.)

graphoman
Posted on: 02 April 2004 by prowla
Does anybody watch BO-Selecta?

Paul