Archimago wrote: > Indeed Wombat, thanks for the links and the laughs... I still have my > black Pono sitting on my shelf for the memories. > > I don't know if this is a victory whether Pono or Highresaudio not > selling MQA for objectivists per se. I hope it is a victory for > consumers being educated about bullshit and voting with their wallets. > That's how capitalism should work. If the Emperor has no clothes, he > should be called out on it. Apparently Neil was surfing with his shorts > down as the tide went out :eek:. > > Anyone know if Neil has made any official statement BtW?
I think that your optimism about consumers being educated is just a little bit off after all Beats are still the number one selling headphones and by a very wide margin. I think that it's less about rejecting high resolution audio per se and more about just not needing a media player other than their smart phone (in the case of Pono) in addition to being told that to truly appreciate hi-rez audio they would need better (and more expensive) playback equipment. That last part comes from the simple fact that when a "high resolution" audio file is played back on their smart phone and Beats headphones they can't hear any difference from their mp3 version and so the industry's answer is to try and sell them something. Doesn't seem to be working just like 3D HDTV didn't work. 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=107118 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
