“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
(David Lynch)
I’ve always been a big fan of David Lynch since I first saw “Wild At Heart” in the early 90´s when I worked as a cinema projectionist. That film was my favourite for many years, and later I think I know why I liked it so much: It has components mixed together into one beautiful whole. Is it the love story, the mystery thriller or the slapstick comedy that provides the magic ingredient or is it the absurd mix? I don’t know if there are any good ideas (or beautiful fish) at the bottom of the wabbit hole, but the journey into the unknown is an interesting one. If you take a very expensive cartridge and put on a cheap turntable or the other way around, what happens? And when you’re “satisfied” with the sonics in your listening room and “upgrade” a component in the middle of the signal chain, what happens if you repeat the first experiment, but in reverse order? What if and why and how and why can’t you not or maybe test a theory where crosstalk numbers are less important than absolute channel balance? And is that possible if the coils are less that 100% electrically symmetric? The Wabbit Hole is my personal journey as a home audio system amateur experimenter on a quest for great sound…..more to follow…