Nuhi, Despite your cables being technically perfect (i.e. not audibly degrading the signal) and the marketing working for you subjectively, at least for a while, in persuading you to perceive whatever you were after, something still ought to be done about audiophile cables? You no longer seem to be suggesting laws and the state but that the audiophile community should do something about it? You disagree with my distinction between lies and misleading despite there being existing laws about the former which are occasionally invoked when cable companies cross the line from misleading to lies. At least in the places where they are not allowed to tell lies.
One cannot use technical performance to sell expensive home audio equipment when it has the same technical performance as cheap home audio equipment. You have to use marketing to distinguish the expensive from the cheap in a manner that will appeal sufficiently to some consumers that respond to this kind of thing. Clearly these consumers cannot be technically literate and, indeed, audiophiles are not technically literate and do not want a technical education about sound and audio. You do not believe the latter perhaps because of your partial conversion to the path of "truth and light" but you are fairly rare which is what piqued my interest. I suggest you try converting a few of the posters here that believe in audiophiles cables. You believe audiophiles are music loving enthusiasts which I would partly agree with and partly disagree with. They are enthusiastic about consuming audiophile equipment and the illusions that surround it and so I have no problem with enthusiasm. It is claims that they are enthusiastic about music that is harder to support with evidence. The overwhelming majority listen to electronic pop music which is fine except it is not the kind of rich and challenging music favoured by those with a deep and genuine interest in music. Few play musical instruments which is unusual for those with a deep and genuine interest in music. Few purchase accurate sounding equipment of the type used by those involved with music. Indeed many favour audibly deficient sound produced by valve amplifiers, record players, tailored speakers, etc... Few seem able to recognise what is causing differences in sound and tend to go along with those that suggest it is due to audiophile magic. It is hard to believe that someone with a genuine interest in sound quality would not acquire this since it is easy enough to do given that everybody these days has a personal computer. Etc... I would suggest one could probably make the case that if one discounts the non-audiophile believing public that has no interest in music then what is left probably has a deeper interest in music than audiophiles. Although I am not 100% sure I understand the parallels you are trying to draw with video equipment the two are quite different kinds of market. The audiophile sector split from the sound/audio mainstream and created an isolated world in which "flat earth" beliefs can thrive and they have indeed grown more extreme over the 30 years life of the sector. This is not the case with the home digital video sector which is relatively new and part of the mainstrem. It is much more constrained by technical performance because technical performance does distinguish products in a way that it does not for many home audio products. Finally, there are relatively few videophiles compared to audiophiles. People buy video equipment more like they buy fridges than audiophile equipment as reflected in the lack of specialist press for videophiles (and fridgeophiles). -- honestguv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ honestguv's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45323 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
