arnyk wrote: > Just a little memory jog for the hopelessly deceived - there is such a > thing as audio without the trappings, myths, taboos, and totems of > audio's golden ears. > > Unfortunately there is no known way to accurately discuss what these > charlatans do without sounding negative. > > One problem is that so many resources and so much money is wasted on > fantasy audio, that it hinders the development of the good stuff. So the > answer to the question of "What do you want to see" has several > dimensions. One answer is that since it is possible to assemble a really > great sounding audio system without spending a dime on high end trash, > simply do so. Hint: you won't get there if you get sidetracked into > taste-testing DACs with sighted, non-evel matched, non-time synched > listening evaluations. Another answer is that it would be refreshing to > see even just new lies and flase claims from Audio's high end. The list > of audio myths and other false claims that has been imported onto this > forum lately is the same-old, same-old, some of it more than two decades > old.
Arny I really do believe that you are onto something. As I write this response on the Squeezebox forum while listening to music being streamed onto a Squeezebox Touch I realize that your point about fantasy audio rings quite true with respect to the high end audio world's flat out rejection of streaming audio. Oh sure some of you will no doubt point out all the high end audio manufacturers who have developed and released various "high end" audio streamers and I will counter that by stating just how overpriced and absolutely terrible these streamers are. Overpriced because with many of the one box streamers, incorporating a hard drive along with a network streamer, the user ends up spending many orders of magnitude more for a simple hard drive. Add to this the over reliance in high end streamers on bad network protocols (DNLA and UPnP - either of which are easy to get to function properly) and the result ends up being a total embrace of yesterday's technology, i.e. vinyl and silver discs. By whatever metric one cares to use computer based digital audio is vastly superior to disc player based audio and while the consumer audio world continues to move in this direction, the high end audio world continues to live in and worship the past. And so through the use of good old FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) high end audio fights to keep the old disc player paradigm going when they should be finding ways of improving the new streaming paradigm. 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=105572 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
