Satoshi Akima writes:

>Yet they play this music with a lifelessness that makes even the youngest
>of music lovers envious listening to the recorded mono masters.

Once again I am reminded that I am in the company of sophisticates in
comparison to whom I have wooden ears.  I go to concerts regularly, even
Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts conducted by the routinely maligned
Seiji Ozawa, and I am enthralled.  I have to wonder how my wooden ears
give me so much more pleasure than those capable of making such exquisite
distinctions that my experiences are "lifeless" to them.

len.