But for the audiophiles who talk of their audio systems like they talk of fine wines, mechanical watches or art, this doesn't really work.
Hello, all along this thread i keep reading how "audiophiles" like a product or don't by just looking at the brand name or the faceplate. Please stop that nonsense. I could be labelled as an audiophile, yet i've been listening to music from a computer for many years, using a pro soundcard or now the Squeezebox. I don't have fancy cables (1 or 2 maybe...), i have a Tact RCS but also some cheap DVD players, a turntable,...etc.. I make my choices by gathering informations (friends, forums, magazines) and in the end by listening. In France, a very popular item among audiophiles is a cheap Philips CD player, the 723 (cost +/- $120) and it got good reviews from HiFi mags. An audiophile is a person who loves music first and then seeks for the best to listen to it. Maybe you have met a fraction of the audiophile community that we call "idiophiles", who come with big money and no clue at all about sound. I have met one who can hear the advantages of the green pen on a cd but can't realize that one speaker has a broken driver, another one with a full Tact system which gets worse every time i pay a visit, but they are a minority. I first heard of the squeezebox on an audiophile forum, by participants who had megabucks systems, and speaking of brand names, a thing called Squeezebox by a company called Slim Devices hasn't got great credibility, could have been Logitech as well. Your post triggered my answer but it's not specially directed to you, it was just the last drop. Best regards, Jean. -- zano65 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zano65's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3906 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28821 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
