I tend to think of it as a cultural thing . I'm no anthropologist and can't always find the words in English ( not my first language). It's giving "them" to much credit calling conspiracy all the time .
The audiophile community has iterated down to this in small steps , it's just what happens when you go on unchecked by reality in your own little feedback loop for decades. The first "filter bubble" before Internet was big thing :) But it is also true then when we already got the current situation it attracts a lot of deliberate scams like in the cable industry. Some of these brands migth have started and are still run by . People who actually still believes this . Some who actually just continue as always and not really questioning things . And true con artist who just struck gold by inventing x to cure y just like the health scammers do . Or something even more complicated. The corruption between press and the subject they are writing about is not unique to the audiophile world . The twist is what they are "corrupting about" is total make believe, floating away into the night in their own bubble :) But I do think that the truth of migth have sunk into some editors but they are keeping up apearences because it's to much money rolling in but mostly social prestige and they don't know of anything else . Profitable magazine, that's not so common these days , but if would try this career I would chose some other topic than high end audio ? The audio critic was a good magazine it's issues are aviable for PDF downloads. The magazine is not without its own problems . I recommend to find one article where they test a Sony CD player vs a expensive Accuphase unit for one of its really good articles. It explains a lot of how designing audio works in some ways and why the exotic stuff gets expensive really fast even if they are based mostly on real technology and sometimes performing worse than mainstream stuff. Just good journalism. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107343 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
