Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]don't get hung up on tubes. none of the stuff in my McIntosh stack has in any tubes in it. still sounds wonderful. bmw - -----Original Message----- From: Greg Bicket <GBicket@email.msn.com> To: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> Cc: LUG <Leica-Users-Digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 3:16 AM Subject: High end audio [Macintosh] and [Leica] photographic analogies >Hi Eric. > >The context was David's frame of reference as being familiar with high end >audio equipment. I was struck by some of the analogies between Macintosh >[spelling error notwithstanding], the venerable old high end audio equipment >maker, and Leica, the venerable old photographic equipment maker. Which is >overall, a very nice thing to say about Macintosh, and about Leica for that >matter. Somehow, robust sounding tube pre amps and amplifiers in a printed >circuit world and M6's in a point and shoot world seemed to me to have a lot >in common. > >No reference intended to the computer manufacturer. > >Enjoy the light. > >Greg Bicket > > > >