Neil McCauley
26-04-2016, 17:29
Geoffrey Owen: Thus wrote Shakespeare as his opening line of Twelfth Night... More than simply a line from a play, it’s a reflection of my life. I come from a musical family – my Grandfather sang opera and operetta in the 1930’s and my second son is a blindingly good guitarist.
As for me, I’m just an occasional, modest, singer of ancient masses and one who joined the world of audio engineering not so much as a career choice but simply as an acceptance of the inevitable...I’d been pulling apart and redesigning audio systems from a very young age and decided there was little point in fighting what nature had decreed should my destiny.
On returning from Australia to England I quickly came to realise that the British audio industry was a mix of three fundamentally different types of personality.
The prime genus carried the qualification of ‘professional engineer’ but there existed two sub-phyla I came to call the gurus and the mystics.
Where the former is made up of those who believe they are born with golden ears that can distinguish the faintest nuances in musical reproduction, the latter can provide hours of endless amusement – albeit for all the wrong reasons.
A good example fell on my desk many years ago, a package that contained a clear plastic pyramid and a note asking if £135 RRP was too much to ask. I had no idea what I was supposed to do with this device.
A few days later a gentleman phoned, keen to know if I’d tried it.
Surprised that its purpose had eluded a mind as astute as mine, he proceeded to .....
Continues @ http://www.hifianswers.com/2016/04/helius-designs-if-music-be-the-food-of-love-play-on-give-me-excess-of-it/
As for me, I’m just an occasional, modest, singer of ancient masses and one who joined the world of audio engineering not so much as a career choice but simply as an acceptance of the inevitable...I’d been pulling apart and redesigning audio systems from a very young age and decided there was little point in fighting what nature had decreed should my destiny.
On returning from Australia to England I quickly came to realise that the British audio industry was a mix of three fundamentally different types of personality.
The prime genus carried the qualification of ‘professional engineer’ but there existed two sub-phyla I came to call the gurus and the mystics.
Where the former is made up of those who believe they are born with golden ears that can distinguish the faintest nuances in musical reproduction, the latter can provide hours of endless amusement – albeit for all the wrong reasons.
A good example fell on my desk many years ago, a package that contained a clear plastic pyramid and a note asking if £135 RRP was too much to ask. I had no idea what I was supposed to do with this device.
A few days later a gentleman phoned, keen to know if I’d tried it.
Surprised that its purpose had eluded a mind as astute as mine, he proceeded to .....
Continues @ http://www.hifianswers.com/2016/04/helius-designs-if-music-be-the-food-of-love-play-on-give-me-excess-of-it/