Mnyb wrote: > One of my personal fools errand in all discussion here is to get more > people to understand how much product development is crippled by the > audiophile mindset . Even working good products with sensible measured > data can have elements of cargo cult designs to them . The products we > can choose from are for this reason in many cases both expensive and > anachronistic .
To quote one of my smarter friends: "People engage with music for a huge spectrum of reasons, some more consistent with the artist's motivations and intentions than others. There absolutely is a "wacko nosebleed contingent" of "audio enthusiasts" for whom reason has long-since left the building and who are engaged in delusional imaginings about things and effects which cannot possibly exist in either this world or the next. This behavior is strongly encouraged by a relatively small segment of the equipment suppliers whose guile and cunning would make PT Barnum die of envy. But "disgustibus non disputantum" - those two communities have agreed as consenting adults to reciprocate with each other to their apparent mutual satisfaction, and as long as they don't scare the horses and exhibit a modicum of decorum, the hyperventilated ravings in the audio rags can be quite amusing. To the degree, however, that the success of this market manipulation flows downstream such that it impacts the availability of high-quality, rationally-priced audio kit for those of less blingful means, that becomes a real problem." "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104401 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
