totoro;147733 Wrote: > Sorry if I sounded snippy. You didn't, that's OK. :-)
> I guess we just disagree about whether losing that particular market > segment is truly a shame :). Not exactly - as I said, I don't really think it pays the bills for Slim Devices. The SB3 is their bread and butter, and to get mass-market consumer adoption, something like this was inevitable. A product like the Transporter really gives a chance for a company to show off its engineering prowess though. I'm an audiophile only in as far as I can actually perceive/measure the difference, and where it makes physical sense. I'm an engineer and a practical person - I don't agree with the cable magic bunk and I have those two links in my bookmarks I bring up whenever anyone starts to get into the cable magic argument. However the Transporter has some practical things where you can actually measure a difference, and Sean has posted oscilloscope traces to prove it. My Transporter is on a UPS truck somewhere on the 401 right now, actually. :-) > As far as I can see, it's shrinking rapidly, and the correlation between > sound quality and "audiophile credibility" got really weak a long time > ago. There are good reasons why younger people and more tech savvy > people are turned off to the whole "audiophile" culture, as exemplified > by the links you posted. Yes, it is true that this market is shrinking. More and more people are turned on by video and surround sound. I personally don't care much for video. Audio is just so much harder to get right and there's something just more impressive to me about really good audio. I can't explain it. > We don't by "artisanal" cpus for our computers, after all. Actually there is some nonsensical product devotion flying in the face of reasoning going on here too. For example, people think that dual-core CPUs will be a whole lot faster in a single-user, non-multitasked environment. (And hey, those upcoming quad-core CPUs will be FOUR TIMES AS FAST, right??) Or that the AMD FX processors are so much better because they're so much more expensive. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
