Dr. Gizmo,
I'm kind of a lurker, I've been following
your antics for the past 20 or so
years, and take this opportunity to
write you to thank you for enriching my
audio life immeasurably. I've been
interested in audio not the hardware
so much as the experience since
I was old enough to charge my first
Marantz receiver at the local audio
store when I was 18. I've come a long
way since then (well, maybe).
The point here is not to get mired
in specifics, but to thank you for all
that your audio insight has done for
me over the years. Hell, 20 years ago
when you were at NYAL, I was an assistant
manager at a Woolworth's, and I
flat couldn't afford what you had to
sell, although I coveted it greatly.
Now I'm 42, got a Ph.D. from Stanford
and run 2 industrial websites for a
living (which affords me time for the
obvious.) Along the way, I have been
able to acquire most of the equipment
that NYAL designed and built, before
I got caught up in the old "'Stereophile'
my amplifier's bigger than your
amplifier" crap. Last night taught
me the error of my ways.
Dear Dr. Gizmo,
After reading you articles, investigating
your website, and raising my
musical conscience, I have begun to
be aware of the wholeness of the
truth contained in your mantra. Being
inspired by this, I have begun to
look into the darkest corners of our
hobby in order to find like-minded
individuals who could be receptive
to your Fourth Wave ideas. Launching
discussion after discussion in many
a chat room, I have found some who
are with us, but unwilling to come
to grips with their musical/artistic
seeker lives, and others who are totally
blinded by the anti-musical
B.S. that has infiltrated the audio
world. From you I need advice. How
can I more fully express the Fourth
Wave Modality to people? Can the
light of musical truth be shone upon
the unbelieving through me? Help
me foster the musical shaman I know
is within me. Anything you could do
for me would be appreciated immensely.
Thank you for the inspiration.
Dear Dr. Gizmo,
I want to dance naked in front of my
turntable.
I blame you.
You have to take the credit and the
blame. You, Doc Bottlehead and all
the inmates over at the Bottlehead
forum. I found your website back in
February while surfing for information
on tube radios. I began to read
your essays and was intrigued by your
style. I read and read and read.
I explored the websites you recommended.
I even printed some of your
essays and read them on the potty.
The more I read the more I wanted to
taste that sweet triode cream. I had
been perfectly happy with my
mid-fi Kenwood receiver. You changed
that with your persuasive
arguments against transistors and in
favor of tubes.
Thank you Dr. Gizmo!
Hello Dr. Gizmo:
Been catching up on your articles lately
after months
of business. Really enjoy your writing.
Keep up the
foreplay, don't compromise your art
for those who need
quick answers. Pretty much your audio
writing is
without compare.
Hi Gizmo,
I have been chowing down on your ideas
for a year and want you to know that
I have learned more about Musical Truth
from this site than all other sources combined.
Your Majesty:
Your style of writing and sharing information
is my cup of soup that really
gets to the heart and soul of what
is music is about and how to get to it
without going postal on your life savings.
Hi There Dr. Gizmo,
A while back, I made a few sets of
the Listener Magazine published DIY
Interconnects. They were really great!
Problem is that I gave them all to
friends, kind soul that I am. Anyway,
I lent out the issue and never got it
back. Would you be so kind as to remind
me of the proper gauge of wire? I
still have all the Radio Shack parts
in a box, but it comes with 3
different spools. By the way, thank
God that you exist. Your warmth and
enthusiasm for this crazy thing called
music is highly contagious and helps
the less technically inclined.
Hello Doctor!
I want to tell you that I have been
able to appreciate the virtues of
an old girlfriend that I just got back
together with, in part because
of your writings. It seems as though
Tubeguy has an attraction to the
tribal/animal type of lover, and you
helped me to validate this- my
goddess is decorated and proud, and
I couldn't be happier.
Given my sheltered, suburban upbringing,
I would not have been able to
break out of my shell if it weren't
for your writings.
Keep it up, your views will continue
to positively affect the
thermionically-aware.
Joe
Dearest Doctor
I found the PF piece to be a fitting
way to slid away into the future; part Burroughs, part McKenna - PURE
Rosenberg.
Surely one of audio's (and Hyperspaces')
greats.
I remember my amazement reading "Understanding
Tube Electronics" on the way
home from Bobby's Alexandria store,
Excalibur, a freshly purchased copy already becoming dog-eared.I woke
up the next day to a caviar omelette, a tradition still carried-out
on special occasions.I thirsted for
the $10k stack o' tubes..pant, pant.
Thanks you for enriching all our lives.
Dear mr. Rosenberg,
Around a year ago I tried to send you
a letter but never succeeded (because
the letter returned with a 'adress
unknown', the adress came from your
ecstasy-book). But now I see your web-site
and got your e-mail address.
In 1995 I wrote a book-review of your
'search for ecstasy' for the dutch
magazine 'Audio & Techniek'. I
tried to make a comparison between Pirsig's Zen and Lila and some of
your concepts and thougths.
Anyway, a few months ago I published
a book on management, quality, the
business of commercial services, the
internet, the new economy and decided to put in some related audio-topics
as well.
I am glad to send you a copy of the
book but since it is written in Dutch
you wouldn't understand must of it.
You can see the cover of the book and
some lines of comment on:
Dr. Rudy van Stratum
Dear Dr Gizmo,
I have been reading your articles about
audio on the magazines The Listener
and Positive Feedback and in the sites
of PF and Enjouthemusic for a long
time, having acquired a great respect
and admiration for your works.
I consider you a trully great audio
expert & guru with a genuine knowledge
about sound reproduction.I think that
all the audio community around the world has
the same thinking about that and that
your articles must be read by everyone
with a genuine interest in audio.Your
articles and great knowledge are very precious for me and for manny
audiophiles in the world.
Allways you,
Hi Harvey,
Good to be able to read your stuff
again after quite some time.I
need your span,breadth,vision,experience,and
humor,to be able to laugh deeply.
Thanks,Raanan
Your Excellency:
You are one crazy son-of-a-big-gun
and this neurotic audio world should thank you for it big time. Whatever
you do, just keep up being a crazy son-of-a-gun. We have too manyboring
writers in the audio world.
Dear Harvey:
Thank you for the article about Christianity
in Russia. Funny thing about the
appreciation of music and fine sounding
audio equipment using 300Bs is that I
have never heard, read, or seen anyone
deranged and detached from GOD who is
appreciative of music and finer things
in life. Ergo, it must be that only
GOD loving men like you and I appreciate
music and 300Bs because it is a
by-product of this reverence that roots
from knowing and believing that there
is a loving Supreme Being out there.
Without that we are just walking matter
who thinks pentodes are the way to
go.
Hello dr. gizmo!
i have been a fan of your website and
have been evangelizing it to some
friends of mine lately. i am a just
barely past being a spring chicken but
i have been bitten by the audiophile
bug, and much to the ANGST to my well
entrenched audiophile friends have
eschewed the monster krell/ML
electrostat route because of a visit
to our local hi-fi retailer and have
HEARD with my own ears the difference
between HI-FI hype and a simple
CaryAudio SET-integrated running a
simple pair of JoesphAudio 2ways. i
havent forgotten the synergy, and i
find nothing quite adds up to what i
heard in the BACK of the hi-fi shop
..
compared to what they REALLY WANT TO SELL.
Hi Giz-
I just felt inclined to pop you an
e-mail saying what
a pleasure it's been reading your column
once again. I must
admit I laugh out loud once or twice
with every Gizmo writing.
Add that up with the circulation numbers,
and you have alot
of smiles out there in the mostly dismal
stereoland.
Thanks again for your cheerful insight,
experience and wonderful
sense of humor. Kind of gives a guy
the warm fuzzies.
Hello Dr. Gizmo:
Been catching up on your articles lately
after months
of business. Really enjoy your writing.
Keep up the
foreplay, don't compromise your art
for those who need
quick answers. Pretty much your audio
writing is
without compare.
Don
Hi There Dr. Gizmo,
A while back, I made a few sets of
the Listener Magazine published DIY
Interconnects. They were really great!
Problem is that I gave them all to
friends, kind soul that I am. Anyway,
I lent out the issue and never got it
back. Would you be so kind as to remind
me of the proper gauge of wire? I
still have all the Radio Shack parts
in a box, but it comes with 3
different spools. By the way, thank
God that you exist. Your warmth and
enthusiasm for this crazy thing
called music is highly contagious and helps
the less technically inclined.
Thank You!!!
Jon
Dr. Gizmo
Well, your influence has extended yet
another level
into the psyche of the Modern American
Male. Yes,
I'm talking about me. This morning
I ordered a
kit for Apollo 1 amps from Ron Welborne.
At some
point in the not so distant future,
I'll be able to
groove to the spiritual SET monster.
I don't yet know whether to thank you
or curse you.
Actually, I can unquestionable thank
you for
re-awakening in me a sense of appreciation
for simplicity and art in
mechanical creations. In other words,
I stop looking at specifications, and
start listening to the music.
Eric
Dear Dr. Gizmo,
They won't go away! They won't die!
(Well, some of them have gotten
sick). They are the SuperITs! Mild-mannered,
unassuming little phono
stages that contain untapped potential
beneath their plain, black cases.
. .
But I don't need to tell you that --
you were there at their birth. You
nurtured them and sang their praises
to the great unwashed masses. You
sent them out to make their way in
the world. To some rapt audiophiles,
you were "Mr. NYAL", if not "Mr. SuperIT".
Dr. G,
I am writing on behalf of a small group of IT and SuperIT owners
that have gravitated together on the
internet to share our limited
knowledge of all things SuperIT. Several
of us have broken IT's, several
have stock, unmodified SuperIT's, a
few have Mr. George Kaye modified
SuperIT's, but all of us have a thirst
for knowledge. That is why we
prostrate ourselves at your feet, humble
supplicants at the alter of
your greatness!
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