nuhi;338932 Wrote: > Will it ever change if we don't revolt? Audiophiles want to believe in magic. If they stop believing and start following real world performance then a consumer based hobby is going to be rather boring and unsatisfactory. How many readers and advertisers would a home audio publications get that said all competent cables, amplifiers, CD players,... sound the same, LPs are audibly deficient and not sensible, valve amplifiers are often audibly deficient and not sensible,... and so we will almost exclusively go on about speakers? There would be almost no interest from hobbyists making a business case very difficult. But this is the type of publication you would need to get audiophiles to read if you want to spread the word about cables. How many audiophile read and believe the Audio Critic?
Publishing specifications is not necessarily the answer either. In the 70s, as alluded to earlier by Themis, prior to the switch to the audiophile "subjective evaluation without controls" many consumers would strongly weight the difference between 0.02% and 0.01% distortion at 1kHz into an 8 ohm load when purchasing an amplifier. Consequently manufacturers that wanted to sell their amplifiers concentrated on improving this parameter at the expense of other more relevant parameters to real world performance. This did not mean, as many audiophiles claim, that the engineers did not know how to make amplifiers just that the design was, quite sensibly, guided by what the sales people knew would sell. nuhi;338932 Wrote: > your point that audiophiles are mainly stupid and listen to pop music is > strike 2 in my book. I did not say mainly stupid. I said all audiophiles are unintelligent because this is a requirement to hold "flat earth" beliefs. Concerning what audiophiles listen to: http://www.AudioAsylum.com/audio/general/messages/45/457017.html http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/general/messages/45/457190.html http://www.AudioAsylum.com/audio/general/messages/45/457309.html Note this was asked at a show and some of the exhibitors may well have been tempted to give a "right" answer. -- 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
