Themis;376488 Wrote: > Darren, of course I agree with that. But, what I find strange, is when > research is limited by most people's satisfaction limits. It's a world > without dreams for better tomorrows: that's what I find sad. > Perhaps I'm mistaken, mind you, but I haven't seen any audio > improvement for the last 30 years which didn't have to go through a > tough criticism about "audible" this and "not the main problem" that. > Am I the only one to find that strange ?
What utter hogwash. Have you ever heard anyone question the audibility of differences between speakers? Room acoustics and treatments? Mono versus stereo versus surround? Planar versus dipolar versus box speakers? In digital room correction? Equalization? With a subwoofer versus without? Different microphone placement and recording techniques? Different mixes, different performances, different musicians? -Those- are the things that make a difference, not redbook versus SACD as a playback format. The problem is that most audiophiles are fixated on nonsense that serves only to sell absurdly priced snake-oil gear that claims to solve non-existent problems. That's why this hobby is irrelevant, and probably dying by its own hand. "Audiophiles" need to wake up and smell the coffee - sane people don't care about cables or $!0,000 amplifiers, because they are utterly useless except as (rather ugly) audio jewelry, and everyone but a deluded few knows it. Someone who truly cares about sonic reproduction should focus on improving speaker and listening room performance, improving recording and mastering techniques, and perhaps more ambitiously on replacing or improving the stereo standard. Not on fairy tales like 25kHz sounds. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54077 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
