Archimago wrote: > I agree Arny. While I enjoy reading the HA stuff, it's not much fun > posting when the "TOS#8 Bridgade" rolls around and deposits responses > like this: > 20178 > > Granted it might be warranted but without opportunity to discuss, that's > just not much fun for a hobby forum... It ends up being another > religious decree like the Ten Commandments. > > In terms of the "madness of crowds" as expressed in the forums, I find > it amazing how easy we as humans end up in a dichotomy or either/or, > all/nothing. The caricatures of -Spiritual/Magical Thinking Audiophiles- > or -Ultra-Orthodox DBT'ers-. It's like choosing between Communism and > Ultra Nationalism. > > I hope that in most situations, the "silent majority" is actually much > more moderate. But I suspect most Moderate Audiophile neither receives > financial incentive nor fight with religious fervor over what amounts to > relatively little when there are so many more interesting technologies > and other hobbies to be involved in after awhile of witnessing how the > extremists conduct themselves...
I don't hold that all audiophile beliefs are flawed and many of the flawed beliefs started out as true but then became unglued from reality. Cables are a good example. Going from cheap, poorly made interconnects and wire to well made cables does improve things but there is no benefit from going any further, it is just over kill and over design. Many audiophile speakers and headphones are built using very well established audio engineering principles but their pricing is based on insanity. Same is true for many audiophile power amps. For the price of state of the (audiophile) art system today one can buy a whole fleet of brand new luxury cars. I love it when the high end world has to answer for things like Elac's $500 killer speakers, designed and built by one their own but priced for real people. Reading those reviews almost makes having these rags around worthwhile. As I've stated before I stopped drinking the kool-aid once I starting getting into computer based audio and music streaming. I found that I could no longer believe the nonsense being written about digital files - whether completely misunderstanding how computers and digital audio work, to file format fumbling, to USB cable insanity. And all of this had me questioning most of older beliefs and putting to the same provability test. 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: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 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=105254 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
