pfarrell Wrote: > > Is the audiophile world that old? I think The Absolute Sound is > only about 15 years old. Maybe a little older. > > The idea of "high end" was pretty much defined by TAS. > In the 70s and 80s, "stereo" was more of a mass market, or > at least widespread, everyone in college aimed for some > serious speakers, be they AR-3As or Large Advents, or > something more exotic like Quads or Dahlquists. The > current audiophiles seem to love wandering off into > religious discussions. The idea of spending > $500 or $1000 on interconnects is beyond beyond my > understanding. >
Why should TAS define "audiophile", and why do you think being an audiophile is equivalent to buying expensive interconnects? Religious discussions are part of every xyz-phile hobby. It is part of the fun. I know specialist audiophile publications existed at least 25 years ago, since I have been an audiophile for 25 years. I was admittedly on a low budget initially, but that has nothing to do with being or not being an audiophile. Some of the highest quality recordings around were made in the 50's -and I guess the masterful people making these recordings were their time's audiophiles. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21173 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
