Well it is pretty common on Internet forums to have that, especially where religious discussions take place (and, yes, much of Audiophilia is religious in nature, with no real way to prove that a $400 cable makes a system better for someone else or not -- each listener must determine for themselves what is best for them).
It does lead to a certain amount of religious fervor: people with 'lesser' ears are just not seeing the one true way of whatever product someone else finds appealing, ignoring that they have different brains and different ears: even if they -did- hear a difference, who is to say it is for the better? Who is to say it was worth the price difference, when we have different values? Forgetting that our values, tastes, and hearing are all different is what breaks the discussion. Certainly there are plenty of "your system or your brain are just inferior" sorts of comments about, but compared to the rest of the 'net? A lot less than most places. And, alas, compared to "real life"? I don't see people shooting each other or blowing themselves up to prove that their God is better than someone else's. Most of the time, people here understand that there is no universal answer on what is the "best" component, and with no way to prove that something is universally better there is no way to be "more right" than someone else, and conversely, no way to be less right. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
