totoro;176623 Wrote: > Yep, and it's really annoying for people on the other side to hear about > it again and again. And it's even more annoying seeing newbies come in > and being told that they should spend some huge percentage of their > (relatively small) budget on tweaks/cables/etc, which would clearly be > better spent on actual equipment/
Point taken. > IMHO, the greater and greater irrelevance of "high-end" audio is to a > great degree a result of this stuff. Most normal people, and > _especially_ people with more technical backgrounds, get really turned > off by the golden ears/mysticism stuff, and simply walk away. And the > greater and greater irrelevancy makes it harder and harder to hear/buy > new stuff, so it affects everyone. > > Just my $.02. I think the irrelevance of "high end" audio has nothing to do with the tweakers et al. I think it is squarely on the demise of quality music that you'd want to actually play on a good system. :-( -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
