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| News On the K A B Homefront * * KAB Celebrates 18 Years Serving The Record Collector and Sound Enthusiast * * |
| Jan 1, 2010 Presidents Statement Analog playback continues to be our main area of concentration. Analog appears to have established itself as the medium of true fidelity. With all the promise that digital offers, The mass public seems content to trade off fidelity for features. Alexander Graham Bell enjoyed better fidelity with his phone then most do today with digital cell phones. Compressed video and audio are the norm. And while all the features and interactivity are nice, some of us still want fidelity. What will the giants do if the world suddenly demands fidelity. Could they even deliver it? I wonder? My guess is, if you use up all the bandwidth offering low fidelity features, there will be little bandwidth left to offer fidelity. We are beginning to see some DVD issues in true 2 channel, 24 bit/192kHZ, re-issues are rare, so if you collect music before 1985, you will continue to need a good turntable, cartridge and phono preamp. KAB will continue to support analog reproduction. We seek to offer the best performing products commensurate with good value and consistency in manufacturing. We will continue to place a high value on specifications and build quality. You can get a million opinions on what something sounds like, but until you have performance metrics, you cannot know very much about true performance and build consistency. As I am fond of saying, "No two people hear the same thing, the same way, twice." Buying an audio product base solely upon what someone else says it sounds like is no different really then just rolling dice. Hearing something for yourself is the only meaningful subjective opinion that counts. And when that is not possible, specifications will guide you from making a move backwards. Never let someone tell you that specifications are meaningless. They are a contract between you and the maker. They insure that unit 1 is the same as unit 1000. |
| New Items Of Interest. - Trends Audio Headphone/Line Stage Amps - Trends Audio Digital Amps. - Aphex Systems Long Line Driver - Aphex Systems Headphone Amps. Find all of these on the Sound Process page. |
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