"Pretentious Twaddle" that makes you smile.
... and you're not allowed to quote me! 
Here is part of a review of OTT's (very appropriate) Blumenkraft, and is an example of what I mean, ie.when the writer gets a little carried away:
"The production is as big as any megaclub house cut, but certain solitude creates space within the propelled vortex of sound. Every track exudes a sonic wall, but rather than bludgeoning it enhances the aural experience. Admittedly scientific in approach, OTT uses a specific alchemy not confined to geometrics, for within this laboratory, emotional content is as rampant as calculated precision". 
This thread may well prove to be a dead duck, but if anyone has similar examples of this type of rhetoric, I would love to see it.
Cno
That is so ludicrous that it could have come from a random b******t generator. Well done.
Thank you Sir......when I came across it, I felt it was worth repeating! 
Perhaps not pretentious but 'hifi slang' sometimes irritates me, erm sorry ... makes me smile. Things like;
'it completely blew amplifier x out of the water' ... ' ... should 'drive' your speakers well ...' ... that 'combo' is much better ... '
you get the idea. The list goes on.
I think I'm having a bad day. Need a pizza.
regards
Perhaps not pretentious but 'hifi slang' sometimes irritates me, erm sorry ... makes me smile. Things like;
'it completely blew amplifier x out of the water' ... ' ... should 'drive' your speakers well ...' ... that 'combo' is much better ... '
you get the idea. The list goes on.
I think I'm having a bad day. Need a pizza.
regards
.....But that (tired clichés) doesn't make you smile.....It makes you want to eat pizza! 
The pizza will make me smile
regards
Don't see any problem with that one: after all, the amplifier is providing the motive power for the speakers, so to say it 'drives' the speakers well is a perfectly correct use of one of the definitions of the word.
Not a term I like at all, but I can see why it gets used: writers and subs trying hard not to repeat the term 'system', 'pairing' or even 'combination' in sentence after sentence, as that can get very tiring for the reader. 'Disc spinner' is another one that irks me, as people struggle to find another way to avoid saying 'CD player' over and over again.
The pizza will make me smile
regards
I prefer Twaddle! 
As long as it's not couscous...
I love couscous!
... and you're not allowed to quote me! 
Here is part of a review of OTT's (very appropriate) Blumenkraft, and is an example of what I mean, ie.when the writer gets a little carried away:
"The production is as big as any megaclub house cut, but certain solitude creates space within the propelled vortex of sound. Every track exudes a sonic wall, but rather than bludgeoning it enhances the aural experience. Admittedly scientific in approach, OTT uses a specific alchemy not confined to geometrics, for within this laboratory, emotional content is as rampant as calculated precision". 
This thread may well prove to be a dead duck, but if anyone has similar examples of this type of rhetoric, I would love to see it.
Cno
Sounds like a failed novelist whose first book (evidently) did not sell well!
Don't see any problem with that one: after all, the amplifier is providing the motive power for the speakers, so to say it 'drives' the speakers well is a perfectly correct use of one of the definitions of the word.
Not a term I like at all, but I can see why it gets used: writers and subs trying hard not to repeat the term 'system', 'pairing' or even 'combination' in sentence after sentence, as that can get very tiring for the reader. 'Disc spinner' is another one that irks me, as people struggle to find another way to avoid saying 'CD player' over and over again.
Avoiding repetition of phrasing, especially in long pieces of writing on a narrow subject, can prove tricky. I'll happily let the author off here. My main gripe is that the example referenced is appallingly written.
For instance, the sentence "Every track exudes a sonic wall, but rather than bludgeoning it enhances the aural experience" mixes metaphors in a particularly unsophisticated manner. I've never heard of someone being bludgeoned by a wall, which seems an unsuitable tool for the job.
Furthermore, "a specific alchemy not confined to geometrics" makes little sense. To my knowledge, alchemy and geometry have little to do with each other, unless we're trying to magic a nugget of very specific dimensions.
It feels like the author ran their work through an online thesaurus (or random synonym generator, as they'd probably put it) and didn't check the results. I'm guessing they were paid to produce this nonsense, too.
I love couscous!
Can you get it as a pizza topping?
Pretentious twaddle, aka, The Culture Show.
Andrew Graham-Dixon can't talk anything but pretentious twaddle, and before anyone tells me I'm a moronic philistine who wouldn't know a Turner from a Turnip, I have no issue with Waldemar Januschek (Yes, I know I've spelt it wrong) presenting art programmes. He manages to be informative and interesting without disappearing up, or indeed talking from, his own backside....
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... and you're not allowed to quote me!
Here is part of a review of OTT's (very appropriate) Blumenkraft, and is an example of what I mean, ie.when the writer gets a little carried away:
"The production is as big as any megaclub house cut, but certain solitude creates space within the propelled vortex of sound. Every track exudes a sonic wall, but rather than bludgeoning it enhances the aural experience. Admittedly scientific in approach, OTT uses a specific alchemy not confined to geometrics, for within this laboratory, emotional content is as rampant as calculated precision".
This thread may well prove to be a dead duck, but if anyone has similar examples of this type of rhetoric, I would love to see it.
Cno