RE: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Just like the photo press never compares lens caps! :-)

You're absolutely right about the utterly outrageous price of Leica
ad-ons...But at least, when it comes to the lens caps, etc., Leica isn't
making any looney claims about how they will enhance your photographic
experience...as the cable manufacturers claim their cables will enhance your
listening experience....Me, I just make sure I have fresh batteries in my
hearing aids and say 'to hell with it.'
;-)
B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tom
Schofield
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 5:17 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital


About as bad as $50 for a feaking piece of plastic with "Leica" on it!!!!
Or $100+ for a 55mm filter!!! Or, about as bad as ......

But I agree with you whole heartedly about high end audio cables!  Ever
notice how the Audio Press never attempts to do objective comparisons
between cables?

Tom  Schofield

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital


> Simillarly off-topic, but on the same topic:
>
> I went into a high-end audio store because I couldn't find the widget I
was
> looking for in my usual low-end audio place...As I stood at the counter I
> noticed various speaker cables on the wall behind the counter.
>
> "How is that $9.95 cable?" I innocently asked.
>
> "$9.95? That's $995, Sir."
>
> "For a freaking piece of wire?"
>
> I left.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Peter Jon
> White
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:23 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] for sale as a result of our studio going digital
>
>
> > The high end audio market is a luxury market that is often
> > noted for its
> > cultist tendencies, and has no impact on the production of music.
>
> Indeed. The $8,000 per foot speaker wire infestation is the funniest
aspect
> of this. None of the "true believers" are willing to participate in a
double
> blind test of this nonsense.
>
> I went into a shop the other day to look at cd players. The salesman
assured
> me that I was wasting my money on the player if I didn't also get the $200
> "interconnect" cables. We used to call these "phono" cables but I guess
you
> can't charge enough for "phono" cables. ;-)
>
> I said I'd be happy to consider the cables if he would participate in a
> quick test, a comparison between the $200 cables, and the cables that
> shipped with the player. He would be required to tell me which cables were
> being used. He responded that such tests created a tense atmosphere; not
> conducive to hearing the qualitative differences among cables.
>
> I smiled, and commented on how it would appear that the emperor was naked.
> He didn't get it. I didn't buy it.
>
> Peter Jon White
> Peter White Cycles
> 666 Mass Ave
> Acton, MA 01720
> 978 635 0969 Voice
> 978 929 9654 Fax
> http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com
> mailto:Peter@PeterWhiteCycles.com
>
> "Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the
> same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks."
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>
> http://www.antiwar.com
> http://www.mises.org
> >
>
>
>