honestguv;336358 Wrote: > Why is it immoral? Exotic audiophile cables are luxury goods. The > manufacturers and suppliers of luxury goods invest a lot of time and > effort building positive associations that their customers pick up > along with the product. They are being lied to. Basically you are saying ignorance is bliss and ends justify the means.
> > If a 5 year old child said the same thing would you be annoyed? So why > don't you enjoy being smarter than an audiophile believer? > I am not that shallow. > > Don't you feel you have grown wiser from the experience? Isn't that > worth some mild embarrassment and a bit of money? > I have to pay and be embarrassed because we allow these con masters to operate and that's a good thing? Lets con kids and teach them a lesson, those idiots can be talked into anything. > > Why post if you do not want to discuss it? > That's just a preemptive setup to ignore cable pseudo-science. What you are discussing is philosophy which interests me as I want to understand your view. > > People are people. The trend away from reason towards faith is a fairly > recent phenomenon after hundreds of years of moving in the other > direction. The forces behind it are well illustrated by your audiophile > cables. 30 years ago essentially nobody believed in magic audio cables > but look at the situation today. Interesting no? In consumerism yes. That is interesting and desperate. We are so lost that we need to ignore the truth in order to be 'happy'. When someone exploits that we shouldn't be quiet. Unless you don't care of course, more power to you. -- nuhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nuhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10571 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45323 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
