Archimago wrote: > No need to be so pessimistic Ralph! > > I totally understand that the common teenager/young adult music listener > isn't necessarily into high fidelity and won't care. Fashion rules in > that space. But the ones who do care about fidelity - the ones who might > be intrigued by "high resolution" as promoted by Neil Young or would > look at product specs to check out MQA - those people can be "reached". > Likewise the serious music lover - guys who would wander into Steve > Hoffman Forums for example - I know those guys also understand that > there is more than a little hype. Finally, I do believe when you look at > places like Stereophile and AudioStream website, people are getting more > than a little sick of the BS. > > When the audiophile magazines see that serious "hi-fi" lovers "get it", > they will change. > > The predictable death of Pono and likely gradual tarnishing of MQA are > useful reminders to audiophiles the ridiculous hype being perpetuated. > At some point, I think we reach a point where "faith" is lost and the > religion of the "high end" will crumble. > > Stay the course, Ralph :-).
I attended Head-fi's CanJam in early February in NYC and headphone enthusiasts tend to be young and are often considered the next generation of audiophiles. Based on what I show and heard at CanJam I would say that both of us are just a little off in our predictions about the coming death of high end audio. CanJam was filled with all the usual audio voodoo, which I'm sad to say was being swallowed many of the attendees. Lots of after market cables, lots of Tidal streaming (with and without MQA), plenty of over priced DACs and amps and of course all kinds of headphones. Perhaps many of the next generation audiophiles will "get it" and reject at least some of the more outlandish high end audio dogma but I'm pretty sure that quite a bit of this nonsense will make it through and continue being believed. 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
