Ken Kessler

摘要

Regular readers know that I've grown increasingly hostile toward certain tweaks over the past decade, especially cables. I credit earlier flirtations with Cloudcuckooland insanity to my own naivete or suggestibility. Consider me, circa the 21st Century, chided and skeptical, but no less enthusiastic. My own deeply held belief is that you can't polish a turd. Thus, an audio system will never be better than the quality of the core components - sources, amplification and speakers - and they're far more important than the accessories, whatever the vendor of the latter tries to prove to you. Ergo, a sublime amp and so-so wire will always deliver better sound than a so-so amp and sublime wire. Ditto for tables, spikes and anything else marketed as an upgrade. Screw black magic: any performance worth upgrading to has to be there in the first place.