Archimago wrote: > You know, I would not be surprised if by doing this - suppressing > dissent - sites like this ends up shooting themselves in the foot. I > suspect a good amount of traffic was created by the debates and > dialogue. Sure, they might create some kind of "oasis" of audiophilic > cultish gathering but that kind of thing is unlikely to translate to > much actual purchases nor improve the flow of ads.
Absolutely true. For an excellent example of the above in practice check out the forums run by Stereophile - they are basically dead. Even this forum which as I understand it is unsupported by LogiTech and revolves around a no longer made family of products is orders of magnitude more busy than the Stereophile forums. In addition I'm also beginning to see some discontent over at the Head-Fi forums now that many manufacturers have been given free rein to promote their products, many of which are based solely on audio voodoo. All of which makes independent blogs like Archimago's all that more important. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: SBS on dedicated windows 7 computer w/2 Drobos '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=103091 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
