paul.raulerson;693820 Wrote: > A friend of mine has a saying he is fond of, and that is that none of > this is a life or death type of issue - we are not killing babies here. > He's right.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I agree that the grand scheme of things home audio isn't all that important but that doesn't mean that basic rules of behavior should not be applied to home audio. Snake oil salesmen, whether they are quacks trying to sell worthless cancer cures to people suffering for this horrible illness or people selling magic stones to audiophiles, are willfully dishonest individuals whose behavior is reprehensible and they should be drummed with as much vigor as one can muster. paul.raulerson;693820 Wrote: > And in some sense, home audio should be treated like art. Two people can > look at a painting and see totally different things. They honestly do > "see" different things, even though the pigment has not changed color. As for home audio being like art this partially true but there are some very important differences. The main difference is that home audio involves electronic equipment and designing and building that equipment requires knowledge and understanding of basic electrical engineer principles. So while audiophiles may treat their systems as works of art the equipment designers most likely do not treat these things as art. paul.raulerson;693820 Wrote: > Music is in the same kind of thing I think. It is not sensible to me to > fume and fuss over it and insist that one cable is better than the > other. Or insist that all cables sound alike. Or indeed, insist that > measurements re everything. Again you are confusing "music" with the playback of recorded music through an audio system. I'm not sure that I can explain this as well as I'd like to but I'll give it a shot: Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Fives and Hot Seven Recordings is music. Jazz at the Pawn Shop is recorded music through an audio system. Dave Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds is both music and recorded music through an audio system. paul.raulerson;693820 Wrote: > The SBT is a great example of that - hooked to a good DAC is flat > competitive with CD transports and Digital Players that cost many > multiples of the combined price of the player and the DAC. It really > is *that* good.... > -Paul While all of us here on this forum may know this to be true and this has also been pointed out it several reviews of various Squeezebox players in different audio magazines these magazines NEVER use any Squeezebox players has the basis for comparisons when reviewing CD transports and Digital Players. NEVER! And if a Squeezebox is ever mentioned in these rags it is only along the lines of "I love my SB Touch, it's great of listening to Internet radio in the background." All of which leads me to believe that these audio magazines are there to serve the interests of the advertisers and not the interests of the readers. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
